Install Vinyl Cutter as a Printer
It's our goal as Advanced Machinery to make our machines easy to use and simple to integrate into your current workflow. http://am.co.za/ Our V-series vinyl cutters are directly imported from our factory in China and are assembled in our warehouse in Johannesburg. http://am.co.za/ With the native USB support, our V-series vinyl cutters are able to work as a printer in your Windows based computer. http://am.co.za/ Therefore, you can use your CorelDRAW, AutoCAD, Adobe Illustrator and other vector editors to directly output your artwork to our vinyl cutter.
Install Vinyl Cutter USB Driver
If you have the USB driver installed already, http://am.co.za/ jump to the next step.
If you haven't installed the driver, install now, http://am.co.za/ remember unplug the vinyl cutter USB cable before install the driver.
Found the file below on your Utility Disk. Double click to install.
What is my year model?
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| for 2013 Model | for 2013, 2014 Model |
 Driver Filename: PL2303_Prolific_DriverInstaller.exe Or you can Download Driver here. |  Driver Filename: FTDI_CDM_Setup.exe Or you can Download Driver here. For Windows 8.1, Download Win8.1 Driver |
| for 2011, 2012, 2014 and Later Model | for 2015 and Later Model |
 Driver Filename: CH341SerSetup_EN.exe If you lost your disk, click here download this file. | V-Smart Vinyl Cutter 2015 Model is a native USB Device in Windows, NO Driver is required, purely plug'n play. To install as printer, recommend you use "USB 2.0 Printer Driver" to install in one click. Or you can install manually by instruction below. |
Now connect the cutting plotter's USB cable with the USB port of the computer. http://am.co.za/ The USB device will be found as COM(X) (no need to change to COM3) from Device Manager. It testifies that the machine is connected with computer successfully.
If the port number is more than 10, and windows does not print without any error after you installed printer, http://am.co.za/ please try change the port number to below 10 (COM2/COM3 is recommended) http://am.co.za/ in both places (in USB driver at Device Manager and Ports in Printer Properties) and reboot your computer.
Download Vinyl Cutter Printer Driver
If you have the USB Utility Disk (or CD), you can find the driver under "Printer Driver". http://am.co.za/ Or you can click here download printer.zip and decompress it.
Install Vinyl Cutter as Printer
Click Add a printer at the top of Devices and Printers http://am.co.za/ (in your control panel)
Choose Add a local printer
Choose COM(X): (Serial Port) (the same port of you installed USB driver)
If you use V-Smart 2015 and later model, choose USB00X (X is the maximum number shown)
Click Have Disk... http://am.co.za/ and located the driver on disk or you just downloaded;
Install Printer "AM.CO.ZA Vinyl Cutting Plotter" http://am.co.za/
After a couple more steps, you will have a Printer installed.
Use Vinyl Cutter as Printer
You can print from Any Program as a normal printer. If output content is a raster image (photo picture), nothing will cut. If output a vector shape:
- Hairlines, or very thin lines, less than 0.02mm lines will be cut as is;
- Thick outline will be cut at inside and outside;
- Solid uniform fill will be cut at outside.http://am.co.za/
Set Blade Compensation
If the output is mixed with raster image (bitmap) and vector lines, http://am.co.za/ only vector lines will be cut.
Our new printer driver is also support blade offset compensation and close compensation at "Printing Preferences".
Cut Directly from CorelDRAW
Here is a sample and some notes for cutting directly from CorelDRAW, or other software that is similar. Please open the print and output window and navigate to "layout setting", http://am.co.za/ place the image to the Top-Left Corner. Then print.
Cut Directly from Adobe Illustrator
Here is a sample and some notes for cutting directly from Adobe Illustrator. You only need to change Placement Option to Top-Left Corner. Then print.
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