Cutter Plotter Drivers For Mac
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Hello USCutter, I just recently purchased the MH721 Cutter and have been trying to set this up on my macbook. With the cutter came two dics, the miniature unlabeled disc and the signblazer elements (both WIN CDs) with it also came SignCutPro (1 Year). I knew I couldn't use signblaze or the unlabled due to my mac, but I downloaded SignCutPro for mac os x. Now, I'm trying to set up my cutter on the macbook and have no idea what to do.
Easy Cut Studio is currently the only vinyl cutter software on the market that can drive the Redsail cutting plotter on a Mac computer. About Redsail: Redsail is a manufacturing company based in China and specialized in manufacturing cutting machines/plotters. On driver and software, the file is compressed in the ZIP format. It is required to decompress before use. On driver and software, the language is in English. On driver and software, the Macintosh OS is not supported exclude the Cutting Master 2 plug-in software. On software, it is run in the WOW64 mode when the 64-bits Windows OS is used.
I believe i need some sort of software to detect the cutter when it's plugged into USB or even if anyone could tell me how to find if it is detected on Mac OS X. And how will i fully set up the cutter with signcutpro? I know a girl who set up her same cutter on her Macbook and uses signcutpro but she is on a trip to Europe so I'm unable to contact her. I really have no idea what to do or what software to get (if needed). Any help is appreciated! Thanks, Austen.
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. 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. Since I posted I contacted Graphtec (I have a Graphtec FC3100-60) I also contacted a few sign shop supply outfits online and several macintosh sign software companies to see what they suggest doing. I would really love to be able to just design in the same app (such as freehand or illustrator) and plot it out with out switching back and forth and trying to translate.
Maybe Graphtec can tell me they make a replacement that replaces all those ports with a nice USB 2.0 port (doubt it be a 2.0 if they did have usb) It just appears to look like those two ports can be removed and replaced like a PCI card would in a desktop. I should have my mail box full of answers in the morning if not Monday morning. NCS Magisign drives also Graphtec FC 3100-60 I would really love to be able to just design in the same app (such as freehand or illustrator) and plot it out with out switching back and forth and trying to translate This is exactly what does NCS MagiSign from Adobe Illustrator (but no more from FreeHand). Our pug-ins is a palette that appears as any Adobe Illustrator ones. It computes the selected paths on the fly so you just have to click on 'send' to see your cutter moving. An intermediary dialog allows you to setup the cutter (speed, force etc).
More than 350 models compatible with MagiSign. By default, Summa devices appears in the plotter menu of the demo version. Not a problem: select the right plotter group from the menu at the top right corner of our palette (behind the arrow) and all the FC3100 range will replace Summa models. This choice will than be saved in preferences so you will not need to change it late. NCS MagiSign drives all the Graphtec, from the first one to the most recent ones.
Your FC3100-60 is really a familiar model for me. We drives it both in HPGL or GPGL (the native language from Graphtec). To drive this model from NCS MagiSign installed on an iMac mini, you have to buy a Keyspan Twin serial adapter (. This device is provided with the required drivers to emulate 2 serial ports recognised by NCS MagiSign over Mac OS X (10.3 or 10.4, from G3 to MacIntel).
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I keep myself at your disposal for further info Best regards Philippe JACQUES (infos@magisign.com). 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.
Since I posted I contacted Graphtec (I have a Graphtec FC3100-60) I also contacted a few sign shop supply outfits online and several macintosh sign software companies to see what they suggest doing. I would really love to be able to just design in the same app (such as freehand or illustrator) and plot it out with out switching back and forth and trying to translate. Maybe Graphtec can tell me they make a replacement that replaces all those ports with a nice USB 2.0 port (doubt it be a 2.0 if they did have usb) It just appears to look like those two ports can be removed and replaced like a PCI card would in a desktop.
I should have my mail box full of answers in the morning if not Monday morning. What's a vinyl cutter? Vinyl cutter is used by sign makers and graphic designes to produce signs.
Go in any street and open your eyes: you will see hundred of letterhead that are not print-out, not screen printed, but cut-and-paste in vinyl with a cutting plotter. Just examine all the letters on cars, road signs, glass, banner, etc. This kind of device traces vectors over a thin adhesive sheet (commonly called vinyle) and cut them with a cutter (or pen) moving over it. Once cut, the material must be peel (to remove the negative parts of design) and transfer to the final surface with care. The design related thus not on dots like common printers, but on vectors connverted in a plotter language (commonly HPGL, sometimes GPGL, DMPL.). This is the job of the sign software drivers.
Some are dedicated, I mean developped only for signmaking. Commonly expensive solutions.
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Some, like NCS MagiSign, rely on common design software (like Illustrator) for the creation and manage the conversion and transmission of the result to the cutter. The color of the result is related to the color of the material: you have to cut and assemble various sheet to obtain a multicolor project. This is one the reason the vinyl is nowaday in competition with large ink plotter that produce large output in a way similar to a desktop printer.
Meanwhile vinyl are more time resistant that large format printing. Major brand in this domain are Summa, Graphtec, Roland. Expensive flatbed models also exists from Aristo and Zund. About USB dongle and price Yes, sorry, it includes a USB dongle: market is so small we can't leave free copies on the market!
But we care to keep competitive updates. There are advantages too: ShareIt guarantee you a 30 day trial period after which you would receive your money back if you are not satisfied by the product and send us back the protection key. Concrete trial would cost you the shipping duties in this case.
Our USB dongle is valid to run our solutions for Adobe Illustrator 10, Adobe Illustrator CS and Adobe Illustrator CS2. Any minor updates are free to download and will be so until release 2.0 (in the loop of 2007). So in 10 years, our customer have only paid for updates for moving from Mac68000 to PowerPC and from MacOS 9 to MacOS X. About price: any macrumors readers would use the below special coupon to obtain an holiday discount at order: GYE98ASM This one is valid until end of july 2006 and is to enter in the appropriate field in the order process from this link: I keep myself at your disposal for any further info Philippe JACQUES. Vinyl cutter is used by sign makers and graphic designes to produce signs. Go in any street and open your eyes: you will see hundred of letterhead that are not print-out, not screen printed, but cut-and-paste in vinyl with a cutting plotter.
Just examine all the letters on cars, road signs, glass, banner, etc. This kind of device traces vectors over a thin adhesive sheet (commonly called vinyle) and cut them with a cutter (or pen) moving over it. Once cut, the material must be peel (to remove the negative parts of design) and transfer to the final surface with care. The design related thus not on dots like common printers, but on vectors connverted in a plotter language (commonly HPGL, sometimes GPGL, DMPL.). This is the job of the sign software drivers. Some are dedicated, I mean developped only for signmaking. Commonly expensive solutions.
Some, like NCS MagiSign, rely on common design software (like Illustrator) for the creation and manage the conversion and transmission of the result to the cutter. The color of the result is related to the color of the material: you have to cut and assemble various sheet to obtain a multicolor project.
This is one the reason the vinyl is nowaday in competition with large ink plotter that produce large output in a way similar to a desktop printer. Meanwhile vinyl are more time resistant that large format printing. Major brand in this domain are Summa, Graphtec, Roland. Expensive flatbed models also exists from Aristo and Zund. Apple Stickers No, those are just stickers on some sort of plastic.
You know the Kalvin and Hobes character pissing on raiders or bin landed or x and replace x with anything you can think of, honda/ford/chevy/sportsteam/car maker etc Those are what these machines do, look for signs that light up outside of a building, banners that have lettering, magnet signs on side of vechiles that pill off, usually all those have vinyel lettering on them. If i wasnt redoing my website i would show you some of my work. Hey everybody, thanks for all the responses! Sorry I've kindof neglected this thread:X In any case, my dad is running it on a PC (bleh), while I am an avid Mac user.
It seems he's learning the Corel software, but I'd like to swoon him over to Illustrator for editing the actual files. To cut and plot he uses Signtools 3, which seems decent, but their design and everything is pretty sad = I've also been trying to convince him to switch over to a Mac, and we've recently ran into a debacle that may be the nail in the coffin - I had to format his computer because there were a couple huge underlying problems (a disaster and very frustrating time for me). In any case thanks for all the suggestions and I hope to hear more from you guys, I love this community =) Ken. At work we just recently purchased a plotter to all of our cutting. As far as i know we have it running an a PC, couldn't tell you the software they use either, but i will try and get those for you later today. However, i did use this machine the other day to create some Vinyl logos of the TRD emblems for my car. All i used was Illustrator, i didn't have to do anything special either.
I just had to make sure my graphics were all in outlines, then output those outlines to the plotter, and away it went. BTW, i think it was Illustrator CS i was using.