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Posted by John Harville (Member # 959) on :
 
Can anyone tell me anything about a S-750 Plotter? Can I plot to it from Sign Lab or Omega? providing I can get the drivers. I have found one for $500.00 or mayby make offer. Is it worth it and are they any good?

Thanks

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John Harville
J & K Screen Printing Co.
115 Cottonwood Lane
Danville, Va 24540
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Posted by Pierre St.Marie (Member # 1462) on :
 
Don't know about the program compatibility, but the plotter is the finest heavy-duty plotter ever made. We have two of them.

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Posted by Christian Slager (Member # 1074) on :
 
I've got a 650 and LOVE it.
I use Omega for all my design and plotting.
Buy it. Quick!

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Christian S.
Slager's Budget Signs
Bradenton, Florida
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Posted by Louis A Lazarus (Member # 763) on :
 
The S-750 is a "dumb" plotter. You will need some sort of outside box or card to operate it with any program. I think there is a card called a "Unilink" made by SignLab that might work with this plotter. If you want to use Omega, you will either need the Unilink card or the S-750 Interface which Gerber used to make...but no longer does. If you want to e-mail me...I can tell you how you can achieve your goal.....

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Milt's Sign Service, Inc.
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Posted by Bob Gilliland (Member # 28) on :
 
I find it funny that, just yesterday, I was having a discussion about this plotter.

Louis is correct about the S-750 being a “dumb” plotter; meaning there is no communication device within the machine. If you have a 4B or a Sprint you can access the machine with a standard A/B switch box. I am told that it has to be a 4B or Sprint, not a Super Sprint or other plotter, as those two machines can have the communication capability to drive the S-750. I have never personally seen this setup, only been told about it. The interface card Louis mentioned is no longer available from Gerber. When it was, it listed somewhere around $2,000. There apparently are some used cards that surface ever once in a great while. So if the stars and moon are aligned in your favor, yes you can get it to plot from OMEGA. Is it worth the money and the effort? Good question.

No experience with SignLab, can’t help on that one.

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Posted by John Harville (Member # 959) on :
 
Gerber was supposed to call me back today at 3:00 with an answer. I'm still waiting. They did say they had a gerber card to go in the sprint for like 595.00, to make it work. I'm beginning to think it ain't worth it.

Lewis, i have a fastcard (sp) in my sprint now to run SL. Just haven't had tome to email you about it.

Think i'm gonna hold off till next week though. I'm rebuilding both puters this weekend.

Thanks for all the advice. Will try to post results.

Have a Happy Easter.

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John Harville
J & K Screen Printing Co.
115 Cottonwood Lane
Danville, Va 24540
804-797-9014

Still working on a slogan.

 

Posted by Dennis Veenema (Member # 833) on :
 
John: Since you have the fastboard in your Sprint, you can hook up the other plotter to it and run it with Signlab.

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The Sign Shop
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Posted by John Harville (Member # 959) on :
 
Dennis: That's what gerber finally told me today. Just got to get it set up as a plotter in the Sign Lab software I guess. Thanks for the help.

John

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John Harville
J & K Screen Printing Co.
115 Cottonwood Lane
Danville, Va 24540
804-797-9014

Still working on a slogan.

 



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