USB cable, it is easy to operate but useful, and there is another choice except outputting from RS232 port. Installation of USB Drivers. First Install Redsail Cutting.

Redsail Cutting Plotter RS1360C With CE Certificated RS1360C Search Redsail Technology Co., Ltd About this company: Redsail Technology Co., Ltd is located at the HI-TECH DEVELOP AREA of Jinan, Shandong Province, China. The company makes high quality Vinyl Cutter, Cutting Plotter, Graph plotter, CO2 Laser Engraving Machine, CO2 Laser Cutting Machine, Redsail products are now used by over 10,000 companies and government offices in more than 40 countries. Having a strong technical background is no doubt the key to success in competing within the ever-changing information industry. Redsail has established long-term and stable cooperationship with Tsinghua University, Shanghai Optical Machine Research Institute of China Academy of Sciences and Nankai University, etc. As the end of April 2004, Redsail has more than 10 patents and 5 softeware copyrights in China. Over the years, Redsail has established itself as the industry pioneer in supplying the most complete line of quality Cutting Plotters, Laser Engraving Machine and Laser Cutting Machine.

The business objective of Redsail is to provide the market with the most reliable products, with the best price, and supported by impeccable service.

Actually, the Redsail plotters are good quality by Chinese standards, and pretty keenly priced in comparison with the bigger names. They were even carried by a large warehouse-type seller in the States at one stage, they may still be but I haven't checked.

Either way, I bought and own the larger 52' RS1360C. It wasn't the cheapest plotter available, but it it's well built and has a laserpointer/red-dot/laser registration feature which they included on their machines well ahead of their competition. So no, it's not a cheap Chinese import, but rather one of the better Chinese imports. I was told by the national distributor that their RS720C model is a bit fiddly to set up when cutting decals longer than a metre, as the vinyl needs to be aligned with greater care than their other models. Oh yeah, you should contact Vikki at and she will send you the driver to drop straight in the output driver folder of FlexiSIGN. Oh yeah, it was Signwarehouse that used to sell the Redsail cutters, and they mainly sell all the top brands like Roland, Graphtec, etc.

So they must have seen the merits of the Redsail cutter-plotters to become the US distributor for them. Again, they're better quality Chinese cutters, as well as manufacturing top of the range servo models.

They also manufacture many other similar CNC-type machines, such as laser cutters, etc, etc. The main company id HF Laser and get good reviews over at the CNC Zone. Anyway, enough touting their name!

Actually, the Redsail plotters are good quality by Chinese standards, and pretty keenly priced in comparison with the bigger names. They were even carried by a large warehouse-type seller in the States at one stage, they may still be but I haven't checked. Either way, I bought and own the larger 52' RS1360C. It wasn't the cheapest plotter available, but it it's well built and has a laserpointer/red-dot/laser registration feature which they included on their machines well ahead of their competition.

So no, it's not a cheap Chinese import, but rather one of the better Chinese imports. I was told by the national distributor that their RS720C model is a bit fiddly to set up when cutting decals longer than a metre, as the vinyl needs to be aligned with greater care than their other models. Click to expand.Thanks Steph!

Obviously we think so, too.:^) But we had some early contra-success with the Chinese cutters when they started becoming popular, which was a nightmare, with return and failure rates in the 40% range. Really awful. They're all better now, to a degree.

But even that didn't convince the owners of SignWarehouse to get back into Chinese cutters. Then I saw Redsail at a trade show, and was impressed. Free cia software. The build quality was vastly superior to the injection-molded junk we were seeing coming our of China. Plus Redsail is a highly respected brand in China, having been the first, best and as a result, most expensive cutters made in China. The SignWarehouse brass thought it worth another go, and let of go old fears. I chose to name it Vinyl Express R Series, since VE is our registered private label trademark, and R Series is for made by Redsail, which is also branded on the cutter, along with our R Series lable, since we believe Redsail is the premium cutter from China. Also, with the volume we could commit to, Redsail could get the cost closer to market.