You can see in the photo below that the hole cut out for the USB plug doesn't actually line up with the socket. The provided USB cable plugs into the cutter's electronics and then into your computer. Ok so the ad claimed that the cutter is a USB device. Please do not contact me asking if I have the software that came with this cutter - I don't, and even if I did I would not share it because the software appears to have been pirated by the Chinese distributors. You can download software for your Universal Laser Systems platform here. I am trying to download CorelLaser from the site but my virus scanner (and Chrome too) block it as a virus carrier.