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Table of Contents

1 Satety precautions..........................................................2
1.1 Safety using ethods....................................................2
1.2 Definition of warning symbols..........................................2
2 Standard accessories.........................................................5
3 Product Structure Diagram....................................................6
4 Details frames amd installation..............................................6
a. Leg frame installation....................................................6
b. Installation and use......................................................7
c. Power connection..........................................................7
d. Serial RS232 cable and USB cable connection...............................7
e. USB cable.................................................................8
f.Install SignCut with HAIWOJIA on Mac OS X.................................12
g. Media installation.......................................................13
h. knife setting and adjusting..............................................14
i. Drawing pen installation.................................................14
5 Operating instructions.......................................................15
a.Control Panel illustration...............................................15
b. Off-line/On-line........................................................15
c. media moves and car moves...............................................16
d. speed and pressure debugginge. pause function...........................16
f . Setting the origin.....................................................17
g. Media test strip debugging..............................................17
6. Flexi software installation.................................................18
a. Flexi operation..........................................................20
7. Art cut software operation and setting......................................24
a.artcut software operation.................................................24
b. parameter setting........................................................24

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1 Safety precautions

To ensure the operator can correctly use the vinyl cutter, and prevent damage of vinyl cutter, please follow the
instructions with the signs below.

a Safety using methods

Any improper operation possibly results in

WARNING hazard of life or damage of equipment.

Any improper operation possibly results in

CAUTION hazard of life or other objects.

b. Definition of warning symbols

WARNING

Don’t use the power source not meeting rating voltage,

otherwise fire or electronic shock may be resulted in.

If the machine gives out smoke or unpleasing smell, or noise

sounds please do not use it in such case, continuing using it
may result in fire or electronic shock.

Do not put out the plug when the power is on to avoid damage
to the machine.

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Make sure electrical grounding when it is working. Otherwise it

will electric shock and machine can’t work normally.

Don’t detach, repair or reconstruct the machine, otherwise fire

and electric, hazard of life may be result in.

CAUTION

Don’t leak any liquid or drop metal

into the machine, such things may
result in fire.

Don’t touch the knife top with your

finger to prevent injury or
perspiration of knife head.

Do not damage or random replace

the supplied power cable, do not
excessively bend, pull, bundle the
power cable or place weight on it.
Otherwise the power source may be
damaged even fire or electric shock
is thus incurred.
To unplug the power cable from
replace, please hold the plug
instead of the cable.
Strongly pulling of the cable possibly
result in electric or fire.

When operating the machine, do not

place either of your hands on
capstan to avoid injury.

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Place the machine on a stable

surface, otherwise the machine may
fall therefore get damaged.

To unplug the power cable from

replace, please hold the plug
instead of the cable.
Strongly pulling of the cable possibly
result in electric or fire.

Any operating is forbidden in case of

storm or lighting to prevent damage
of the machine.

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2 Standard accessories
Check following accessories after unpacking, please contact the seller or our company if you find anything
missing.

Quantit Note
Item: Parts Picture
y

1 1 Standard
Power cable

2 1
USB cable
Standard

3 1 Standard
RS232 cable

4 Blade group 1 Standard

5 3 Standard
Blade

6 Pen group 1 Standard

1
7 Warranty Card Standard

1
8 CD disk Standard

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3. Product Structure Diagram

8 3
.

9
7 6
1 4 5

10

1. Platform 2. Cover 3. Control Panel 4.Carriage 5.Blade holder

6.Pinch roller group 7. Trim strip 8.Upper cover plate 9. I/O Plug-in and Switch

10.RS232 serial port/USB port/SD port interface

4 Installation

a Leg frame
We only supply floor stand for HW1200 and HW630, and the floor stand for HW1200 is a standard equipment, but
for HW630 is optional.

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Take out every party of the stand from the packing box, turn on the party bag, and install the stand according to
the illustrational showing. Lay the cutter on the stand after install, aim at and install spiral shell, then lock with the
screw.

b Installation and Use

1 Place the cutter in a plane and roomy place, and make sure there is 300mm room place around the cutter.
2 Notes on Location (Do not locate the plotter in any of the places listed below)

— A place exposed to direct sunlight

— A place that vibrates
— A dusty place
— A place where temperature or humidity varies significantly

c Power connection

Check the electrical connection and power supply voltage before you connect plotter’s power.

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d Serial RS232 cable and USB cable connection

1.Connection Methods

RS232 Port

USB Serial Port

Warmly remind：RS232 serial wire and USB wire are those two isolated wire，when connection only
need one of those two wires.
2. Connected display
After connecting RS232 serial port, using COM1 port to transfer out on it directly.

e USB cable

USB driver suits for 32 bits&64 bits CPU,WindowsXP、Vista、Windows7、 Windows8.Depends

on your computer system configuration, chose the corresponding driver, then double click
“setup.exe”

Open the CD, find the USB driver

Click (as show in the figure), click next (Next)

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Click “Next”

Choose "Complete" to install all necessary features then Click“next”; wait for a moment ，Click
“finish” ，make it completely installed.

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32/64 bit driver Manual installation method：

Connect USB cable with the PC and the machine, switch on the machine, the computer will automatically
appear dialog "Found New Hardware Wizard" as shown:
Select "from the list or specific location", click next

Press “Next”

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Into view, select “search for the best driver in these locations.” and ”Include this location in the search:” select the
USB driver file path, click Next , as follows:

Press “Next”

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Press “Next”

Press “Next”

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Click Finish to close the wizard after installing, as follows:

Open the computer's device manager, below dialog displays the USB drive, the interface in software should be
same as device.

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HW USB Serial Port

f.Install SignCut with HAIWOJIA on Mac OS X

1. Download SignCut, if you registered a bundle-code you should have received a download-link,otherwise
register for a free trial on our website: http://www.signcutpro.com!
2. Once downloaded, open the downloads-folder and double-click the file scpro.dmg and it will mount on the
desktop.!
3. Now drag the SignCut-knife icon to the folder on the right and drop it there.!
4. Now SignCut has been installed, you may now close the window and drag the SignCut-unit on the desktop to
the trashcan or right-click on it and choose to Eject it. (same procedure as with a usb-memory)!
5. Now we need to install the usb-driver. Download this file:
http://www.ftdichip.com/Drivers/VCP/MacOSX/FTDIUSBSerialDriver_v2_2_18.dmg!
6. Perform same procedure as point 2, except open the FTDIUSBSerialDriver_v2_2_18.dmg file instead.!
7. Now double-click on the ”FTDIUSBSerialDriver_10_4_10_5_10_6_10_7”-package to start the installation.
Click Next, next and install then enter your admin-rights if asked.!
8. Finish the installation, and you can now eject the FTDI-unit same way as in point 4.!
9. Start SignCut, and enter your license number.!
10. When the cutter-setup dialog opens, check the Output Device-list by clicking on it, you should find a device
similar to the image below. If you can’t see that device, we recommend to reboot computer and try again.

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Those two port

should the same

g. Media installation

1 Media storage and use precautions

— After opening the package, store the media in a cool dark place to avoid sunlight and water
— Do not place the print media to erect in order to avoid edge damage
— Do not fold and stack the print media
— Do not use bruised, wrinkled, curled, or stained with dust medium
— Do not drop or wet the print media
— Need to tidy up before installation media
2. The machine used for single media, but also for rolls of media.
3. Main operation methods of using the media

(1) To press the pressure roller handle at the back of the machine, lift the pressure roller

Depress the
lever of
pinch roller

(2) Insert the media correctly.

(3)Move the roller to cover the steel shaft claw, it can ensure the best tracking length when you allow the media
away from the machine both at left and right place.

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(4) Handle the stage, and press the media.

Set the
media,lift the
handle,which
controls the
pinch roller.

h. Knife set and adjusting

Don’t touch the knife top

CAUTION
with your finger prevent
injury.

a. Install the knife into the holder. Rotate the knife sheath to adjust the length of exposed part of knife tip. Blade
holder exploded as shown below, the detail operation are described as followed:

b. For different material, users can adjust the length of knife sheath exposed at any time.

c. Install the blade holder into carriage

— Loosen the screw of tool carrier
— Assemble the blade holder into the tool carrier
— When the tool is in appropriate position, tighten the screw.

i. Drawing pen installation

The installation method for pen group is basically the same as blade holder, except for
adjusting the nib.
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5 Operating instructions

a Control Panel illustration

4 1

5 2
6 3

1. Offline pause 1.Switch On-line state to Off-line state

2, Can be suspended when cutting.
2. Origin 1. press” ”” ” to move car and “ ” to move media, then press”
Origin” button to make old coordinates cleared, and set up new
origin.
2, Press the button at online state to read SD card file,
press” ”,” ” select file, then press “Enter” to work

3. Test Text cutting effect

4. Reset Reset and clear cache memory data on main-board.

5.Enter After selecting SD file,press button,machine operates order.

6.Mode 1,Change “blade mode” to “pen mode”
2,MPX,MPY to adjust override.
b Off-line/On-line
When the cutter starts or resets, it becomes in online state. Press “Offline/Pause” button to switch to off-line state.
When computer transmits signals to the plotter, the plotter must be Online. The LCD will display the Speed/force
information as follows:

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Online state

Offline state

c Media moves and car moves

The plotter is offline, press the left arrow key " " the car moves, press the right arrow key " " the car will move
to right. Press the up arrow keys " " the media feed roller will lead to move forward, press down arrow keys, the
media feed roller will lead to move backward. LCD "XY" coordinates after moving with the numeric value will
change accordingly.

X-axis coordinate value

after shift

Y-axis coordinate value

after shift

d Adjusting speed and pressure.

In line with local state and send the process of carving knife pressure and speed of testing, debugging speed
increase speed by value increment key, key to decrease the value by value reduction, testing the pressure to
increase the pressure by value increment key By numerical reduction to decrease the pressure.

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e Pause function

During plotter output, press the “Off line / Pause” button, the plotter will be in suspended state and displays the
coordinates of the current document processing parameters. As shown:

f Setting the origin

The lower right corner as the absolute origin of the media, the user can be set based on their own to the
appropriate position, after moving off a good bit about setting up/down and left/right keys, press the "Origin"
button coordinates cleared, the new origin is set up, carving output from the knife from the new origin.

g Media test strip debugging

Locate the position of car and media, press "Test" button, the machine will automatically cut out a square and
triangle, and tear-out the test strip by hand, if can be easily opened, and not carved through the adhesive,
indicating that debugging is good, if tear-out with the associated media, you need to increase the blade pressure
or adjust the knife extended tip, then continue to press "Test", the machine will automatically cut the left side of
the original location of test strips, you need to do this before you testing well.

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6. FLEXI software installation

Put FLEIXI CD into CD ROM, open files and click “Autorun.exe” install the software.In the process of installation, please don't insert
dongle on computer, so to prevent dongle driver cannot be installed.

Click next,

Select “I agree the terms of the license agreement”then click“Next”

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Select the installation path, click next.

Pls insert dongle on computer, and input password, it will automatically show ID number of user,as follows:

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Select language, click “done”and software will finish installation,then it will auto fix desktop shortcut.

a.Flexi operation

1,open Flexi software,make new file or open other files,click cutting/draw button” ” to send file

2, the software automatically switches "Add Setup" dialog box, select brand name and model name accordingly,
click Next,as follows:

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3,select connected method.

*Caution:please check and make sure the Flexi interface port is the same as Device Manager shown,otherwise
machine can not work.

Those two port

should the same

4. Please choose the port the same as cut output port, the other parameter is the same as handshare agreement (above picture)show, baud rate: 38400

hardware handshake agreement：“RTS”and“CTS”

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5.Enter into the above cutting interface, set the overcut to 0, and then click
properties.

6. Set the 0.036MM at knife effect,and the rest are same as following shown:

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Enter Into the “cutting” interface

1. Double click

Click on the "cutting machine options" pop-up "Vicsign HW630" dialog,

2.Each time the offset X and offset Y should revised to 0

This place Offset X，

Offset Y are all 0

3.Offset X is adjusting migration of forward and backward direction.

4.Offset Y is adjusting migration of left and right
5. In the edit dialog Offset X －22.5， Offset Y 18 there is a deviation in the actual assembly process, can first do a rectangular in software to
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make those parameters adjustment.

As shown in figure: black rectangle for the required graphics, red rectangle for the actual output offset graphics, by measuring the actual shift to the left 3 mm,

upward migration 1 mm,

Adjust methods: if need adjust to left, add ; if need adjust to right, subtract; if need adjust to forward, add; if need to adjust to backward, subtract, after

adjusting the Offset X: -21.50 mm Offset Y: 15mm

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Offset X: -21.50 mm

Click here
Offset Y: 15mm

6. Click ok, and then test cut again, when the red rectangle and black rectangles overlap, shows the best effect of parameters setting.

7.Artcut software operation and Setting

a. Artcut software operation

Open software,press creat new file.

Inset objects,select object,press Output button,choose Yes,as follows

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Output

b.parameter setting

Cut/Plot dialog box,select manufacturer of Vicsign,press Add,then select Vicsign HW330,Vicsign

HW630,Vicsign HW1200,etc

选择刻绘设备

Choose the device which is same as your cutter model name.

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Select cutter
model name

Choose setting port, closed compensation set to 0, Sharp Angle compensation set to 0.36

Close set as 0

Sharp angel set as 0.36

Select right installed port from drop-down menu,then open “COM setting” dialog box,set up according following
shown:

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Choose port

Those two ports must be the same

Choose port

Set as 38.4K

Only choose RTS/CTS

Click”cut/plot” to output the graph。

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Click”cut/plot”

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