For years now I've been using an old version of Casmate pro ( over 12. Roland do a printer driver for you which will cut directly from corel.
Hey all, My dad recently got into the vinyl sign business (well at least, he wants to really badly, allready purchased the equipment), and I'm a little curious as to some things. Currently he is using CorelDraw 11 to Cut the signs, which I am not familiar with at *all*, and I was wondering if one of the Adobe CS apps are able to perform this action instead. I am familiar with the entire CS Suite, so it would be much easier for me to teach him how to do things, etc. But right now we are both struggling with Corel. Also if Corel is the only option here, anybody have any tutorial reccommendations, maybe video CDs online, or other things?
Thanks in advance, Ken. Just wanted to say that I'll also be watching this thread closely. I've had a home-based 'hobby' computer-cut vinyl signmaking business for nearly 15 years. Believe it or not, it was run off a 1991 Amiga 2000 with an aftermarket 68030 board running at a blazing 25MHz. Seriously, it cost like $6000 when it was new! Anyways, my Amiga's hard drive finally gave up the ghost last Christmas, taking tens of MEGAbytes of my hard work with it. (Yes I mean MEGAbytes.
The 80 Meg HD was 95% full!) So now I'm left with a complete sign shop, tons of vinyl and substrates, and nothing to make it all work. I'm looking at selling everything, but it will be sad to see it go after all these years. I'd be curious to see if there are any shareware Mac-based vinyl-cutting programs out there, just to see how they would drive my old Roland CAMM-1. BTW, the 'standard' language for such things is HPGL which my SignEngine Amiga software fully supported, now updated to HPGL-2. My cutter also speaks DMPL but I'm not sure it was ever as popular as HPGL. Note that's the serial/parallel communication language that the computer uses to talk to the cutter, it is not a file format. I'm honestly not sure what today's 'standard' 2-D plotting file format might be.
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On my Amiga it was called DR2D (Draw2D). Click to expand.
NCS MagiSign plug-in () drives more than 350 models of cutting plotters directly from Adobe Illustrator 10, CS and CS 2 running on Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther) or 10.4 (Tiger). It includes recent as older models from Roland, Graphtec, Summa, Mutoh, Ioline, Anagraph, Zund, Aristo, GCC, etc. NCS MagiSign runs on any G3, G4 or G5 PowerMac as runs over MacIntel through Rosetta without known problems (note: Adobe Illustrator CS2 is not universal so you need more RAM memory in this case). Older versions of our products were compatible with older Mac and older versions of Adobe Illustrator (from 1996). NCS MagiSign includes its own USB drivers to drive as fine as possible cutters like Summa or Graphtec over Mac OS X versions described above.
NCS MagiSign allows to drive many brand of old cutters build with only serial port through Keyspan Serial adapter and the appropriate serial cable for the cutting plotter. I keep myself at your disposal for any further info Best regards Philippe JACQUES.
Click to expand.Keyspan, IIRC, has both USB-ADB and USB-RS422 convertors that are compatible with a broad range of devices, but YMMV As far as Corel vs. Illustrator goes -- it all comes down to what the cutter's software expects to see as import files.
If it only takes a CDR file, or ony includes a driver that is compatible with Corel, then you have to use Corel, or find third party sofware that translate you.AI file or act as a substitute driver. Depending on the quality of that software, there may be file translation or driver issues that consume a lot of time to troubleshoot, or it may be easy. Your first stop is the cutter manufacturer to find out for certain what they support natively. Eww Corel I would like to stay as far away from Corel as possible, I am very familure with Freehand (wonder what will happen with it vs illustrator now that adobe owns both) I been using Freehand before MacroMedia owned it. So I would like to stick with it or illustrator for my designing CASMate (the software i have for pre X) used EPS files.
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For years now I've been using an old version of Casmate pro ( over 12. Roland do a printer driver for you which will cut directly from corel.
Hey all, My dad recently got into the vinyl sign business (well at least, he wants to really badly, allready purchased the equipment), and I'm a little curious as to some things. Currently he is using CorelDraw 11 to Cut the signs, which I am not familiar with at *all*, and I was wondering if one of the Adobe CS apps are able to perform this action instead. I am familiar with the entire CS Suite, so it would be much easier for me to teach him how to do things, etc. But right now we are both struggling with Corel. Also if Corel is the only option here, anybody have any tutorial reccommendations, maybe video CDs online, or other things?
Thanks in advance, Ken. Just wanted to say that I'll also be watching this thread closely. I've had a home-based 'hobby' computer-cut vinyl signmaking business for nearly 15 years. Believe it or not, it was run off a 1991 Amiga 2000 with an aftermarket 68030 board running at a blazing 25MHz. Seriously, it cost like $6000 when it was new! Anyways, my Amiga's hard drive finally gave up the ghost last Christmas, taking tens of MEGAbytes of my hard work with it. (Yes I mean MEGAbytes.
The 80 Meg HD was 95% full!) So now I'm left with a complete sign shop, tons of vinyl and substrates, and nothing to make it all work. I'm looking at selling everything, but it will be sad to see it go after all these years. I'd be curious to see if there are any shareware Mac-based vinyl-cutting programs out there, just to see how they would drive my old Roland CAMM-1. BTW, the 'standard' language for such things is HPGL which my SignEngine Amiga software fully supported, now updated to HPGL-2. My cutter also speaks DMPL but I'm not sure it was ever as popular as HPGL. Note that's the serial/parallel communication language that the computer uses to talk to the cutter, it is not a file format. I'm honestly not sure what today's 'standard' 2-D plotting file format might be.
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On my Amiga it was called DR2D (Draw2D). Click to expand.
NCS MagiSign plug-in () drives more than 350 models of cutting plotters directly from Adobe Illustrator 10, CS and CS 2 running on Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther) or 10.4 (Tiger). It includes recent as older models from Roland, Graphtec, Summa, Mutoh, Ioline, Anagraph, Zund, Aristo, GCC, etc. NCS MagiSign runs on any G3, G4 or G5 PowerMac as runs over MacIntel through Rosetta without known problems (note: Adobe Illustrator CS2 is not universal so you need more RAM memory in this case). Older versions of our products were compatible with older Mac and older versions of Adobe Illustrator (from 1996). NCS MagiSign includes its own USB drivers to drive as fine as possible cutters like Summa or Graphtec over Mac OS X versions described above.
NCS MagiSign allows to drive many brand of old cutters build with only serial port through Keyspan Serial adapter and the appropriate serial cable for the cutting plotter. I keep myself at your disposal for any further info Best regards Philippe JACQUES.
Click to expand.Keyspan, IIRC, has both USB-ADB and USB-RS422 convertors that are compatible with a broad range of devices, but YMMV As far as Corel vs. Illustrator goes -- it all comes down to what the cutter's software expects to see as import files.
If it only takes a CDR file, or ony includes a driver that is compatible with Corel, then you have to use Corel, or find third party sofware that translate you.AI file or act as a substitute driver. Depending on the quality of that software, there may be file translation or driver issues that consume a lot of time to troubleshoot, or it may be easy. Your first stop is the cutter manufacturer to find out for certain what they support natively. Eww Corel I would like to stay as far away from Corel as possible, I am very familure with Freehand (wonder what will happen with it vs illustrator now that adobe owns both) I been using Freehand before MacroMedia owned it. So I would like to stick with it or illustrator for my designing CASMate (the software i have for pre X) used EPS files.