Hello, I am new to the forums, my brother has been a long time member and told me I should join this fine community since I decided I would like to help out. He has been cutting vinyl now for a few years and has a couple of different plotters at his business. I personally feel between the both of us we a re very capable of figuring things out no matter if its software or hardware but we are just a little stumped with this issue. So I purchased this Creation Pcut CT 635 on the super cheap from ebay; I needed something I could work with at home and learn Flexi. With that all out of the way the plotter in question is a Creation Pcut CT 635 according to the sticker on the back. The only interface on the Pcut is the DB25B (Parallel). The computer he loaned me (backup from the shop) is running Windows XP Pro Service Pack 3 it has Flexi 8.5 installed on it and has one Serial (Com1) and one Parallel (LPT1). The plotter didn't come with the parallel cable so we tried two different ones that I had and a parallel to serial.

Now here are the problems; Flexi does NOT show a CT 635, my brother says select CT 630 because it is all the same series? Using CT 630 in the setup only allows me to choose Com ports, no LPT ports in the drop down menu so I am unable to try any of the parallel cables with Flexi. Craigslist email harvester cracked. When using the parallel to serial cable I select Com1 and when I try the test cut it sits at 0% and plotter doesn't respond. We tried every setting in Flexi, Device Manager and Bios but plotter does not respond. My brother suggested I should try other programs to see if I could get it running off the LPT port so I tried a few. I have a trial version of Vinyl Master and can select LPT in the stings but when I get to the setting to choose the port the drop down menu is blank. When I use the Com cables it sets up fine and when I hit the test cut feature the plotter does not respond.

Countless hours later I have found that this plotter uses an unusual method on the parallel to serial cable to hand shake with the computer. In the manual I downloaded it actually shows the pinout and I have hacked the cables and using an ohm meter I rewired the serial cable, but it still doesn't respond. I have found different cables from suppliers that are listed for Roland and PCut but when I look up the pinout it is different than what my manual shows. I apologize about the extremely long post but am trying to share as much information as possible that may be needed to help me with this issue. If anyone has had a Creation model that uses the 25 pin Parallel DB25B (According to Manual) could you please tell me what cable your plotter uses.

Has anyone had a problem with selecting LPT in either Flexi or Vinyl Master software? I would appreciate any help I can get, Shane. Because the last post was so long I wanted to sum everything up to make this more understandable. My plotter is a Creation PCut CT 635 with Parallel interface (printer port) Flexi 8.5 will not allow me to select the LPT port.

In Vinyl Master I can choose the LPT interface but during the next step of choosing the port that it is connected to the drop down box is empty, no way to select my LPT1. When using a serial to Parallel cord I can setup my plotter in both programs but neither will communicate or make the plotter cut. The computer I am using works on my brothers back up plotter which is a PCut CTN 635 using a serial to serial cable just fine. From what I have read Creation use some sort of priority pinout on their plotters?