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Oh joy of joys.............

Since non of my hpgl software seems to want to work my hpgl plotter, it made
me think that maybe that was whythe calcomp had never worked, because it
knew the format/data of the file was wrong..........

Well now that I have 'signgo' and its working the HP plotter, should I plug
in the calcomp...

Using the HP lead I plugged it in and pressed 'cut' and off it went into an
imaginary world of vinyl cutting.

It then said cut completed, and calcomp had not moved an inch, I pressed the
p1 / p2 / enter buttons, nothing, I pressed view, and it started to jiggle
about............

eh??????????

I grabbed a badly fitting pen and a roll of tape, fighting with the plotter
to tape this pen on while it was still jiggling about, quickly getting a
piece of papar under it it was off, another cow!

It look genetically modified and very ill but it was my test cow!

further playing and I have managed to rig a pen on it and have managed to
get it to go again, and I have found the cause of it being dead when I spent
like 3 days building different cables....

Its thge view button, it defaults on powerup to 'view' mode, which means
'dont plot', I have to press the enter button, then the chart button, then
the view button, and its ready to go..........


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