Ensure the (usually 9600) and Flow Control match your cutter’s physical settings.
For USB connections, ensure you select COM 3 in your software settings for the best reliability.
Below the monitor, a battered Artcut plotter slowly shudders to life every 7 minutes. Its blade—dull, set too deep—carves the lotus again and again into cheap self-adhesive vinyl. But the vinyl has been stuck to a fragmented mirror. Each pass peels a little more silver off the glass, revealing raw MDF underneath.
