I will post my findings back here when and if I learn anything new regarding this setup. I will give Roland a call this week and see what they have to say. Just wanting to know what's possible for this older cutter to run in a Mac-only environment. Way back.Īnyways, I don't want to turn this into another Mac vs. But, for those of us who have discovered how much better the Mac platform is for design, security, and overall user-experience, going back to the PC is like stepping back in time. The PC is a good machine in its own right, and I should know, I've used them since the days of the 8Mhz 8088 XT and have been a PC tech for the last 15 years. It works OK, and I still do all of my design on my Macs, but I personally would rather not have anything to do with the PC at all anymore, hence my original questions. I have my cutter plugged in to an old P3-800 running SignLab.
And it's not that the PC isn't capable of doing the job, it's just that my most powerful computers happen to be Macs, and I simply don't like having PCs plugged into my local net and try to avoid it whenever possible. I guess what I need to know firstly is if CutStudio will even work with my older machine before I look at getting away from the PC altogether. However, the sign industry mostly uses Windows computers (which I also have).Thanks Geary for your comments. I have a professional sign and printing business so always use Macs. If anyone knows of a sign program for Mac or Windows that can import old Roland SignMate files please let me know! And yes, you can export out in Adobe Illustrator 5 format from SignMate, but these sometimes don't work properly. And then the buffer on this old plotter is prob too slow to work with faster Macs, etc. In addition, the "dongle" requires a port not found on newer Macs. I don't think I can run this old serial plotter from the newer iMac with USB ports only. However, although I have Flexi 8 running on a much newer Intel i3 iMac, I still use the older SignMate with my very old Roland Camm-1 PNC-1000 plotter since this actually runs faster than Flexi 8! It runs ok, just seems to work slower for some reason. I have lots of old files created in SignMate on my old Mac OS9 computer, and this is the only program I know of that can import these files. It's very basic but works for most signs. I have "Flexi 8 mac starter" version that I have running on OS 10.6 that cost less than $200. "SignMate" is/was Roland's version of FlexiSign which is available now.
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