Category: Vinyl Cutter
Sharing a USB port in Ubuntu 24.04
This is to use a USB port on a server PC on the LAN to connect any devices attached to that port over the LAN from a client PC. As much as everything below in on an Ubuntu client and server PC, it could just as easy be on a Raspberry PI, etc. On both…
Sharing a Viynl Cutter over the Network in Linux
This setup works for a cheap Chinese no name brand Cutting Plotter I use. On the host PC add a new printer and set the printer model to “Raw Queue“ Set the device URI to, for example, serial:/dev/ttyUSB0?baud=9600. This assumes the servial device is attached to USB port 0. Make sure it is shared. On…
Setting up Inkscape for use with a Vinyl Cutter using Inkcut
Step 1 Download and install the InkCut Extension from the InkCut sourceforge page. Step 2 Install the following linux libraries : Using InkCut to perform the cut Step 1 Select the objects you wish to cut Step 2 Ungroup the selected objects Step 3 Go “Path->Object to Path” Step 4 Go “Path->Union” Step 5 Extensions->Cutter/Plotter->Inkcut…