User’s Guide – Ultima cutting plotter
90 AP-75032, Rev 2.2, 20/04/07
6.5. CHECKING THE COMMUNICATION SETTINGS
Communication problems are the most frequent errors, which occur. Therefore we have included a step-
by-step procedure to check out your configuration’s communication settings and assure that your cutter is
working fine.
Step 1 : Boot-up your computer.
Step 2 : Switch on the cutter.
Step 3 : After the initialization routine is finished, install a knife or pen in the head, select the proper tool
and load a sheet of media, which is at least 12 x 12 centimeters.
Step 4 : Make sure the cutter shuffles the media and verify that the cutter is Ready.
Step 5 : On the host computer go to the DOS-prompt (c:\> ).
If another environment ( for example : windows ) is automatically loaded after booting up, quit this
application before continuing.
Step 6 : Check with which of the host computer’s communication ports your cutter is connected ( COM1,
COM2, LPT1, … ) to.
Step 7 : If your computer and cutter are linked with a serial interface ( COM1 or COM2 ), type following
command.
MODE COM1: 96,n,8,1,p then press <ENTER>
or
MODE COM2: 96,n,8,1,p then press <ENTER>
Notes
The command above will change your computer’s serial communication settings to match the cutter’s
factory default communication settings.
These settings are : 9600 BAUD, NONE parity, 8 data-bits, 1 stop bit.
Step 8 : Using any text editor, create a file called TEST.PLT with the following contents:
( To start the DOS editor you can type : edit TEST.PLT <ENTER> )
IN;
SP1;
PA0,0;
PD0,4000,4000,4000,4000,0,0,0;
PU2000,2000;
CI2000;
SP0;
Step 9 : Save this file onto a floppy or on your hard-disk.
Step 10 : Exit the text editor and return to the DOS-prompt.
Step 11 : Make sure you are in the directory where the file is located.
Step 12 : Type following command :
copy TEST.PLT COM1 ( If your cutter is connected to COM1 )
copy TEST.PLT COM2 ( If your cutter is connected to COM2 )
copy TEST.PLT LPT1 ( If your cutter is connected with the parallel printer port )
Step 13 : Then press <ENTER>.
The file you have created will now be sent to the cutter, causing it to cut/draw a square of 10 by
10 cm. And a circle with a radius of 5 cm.
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