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you'll probably need to purchase a usb to serial port adapter then hook that up to your current plotter cable,...windows will see it as a serial port,(com port)....
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-------------------- fly low...timi/NC is, Tim Barrow Barrow Art Signs Winston-Salem,NC Posts: 2224 | From: Winston-Salem,NC,USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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Well, we bought a Trendnet USB to Serial adapter for $10 on Amazon, which is recognized by Windows 8, with drivers installed. The problem is that there is no interaction between the plotter and the computer.
The drivers for the plotter ended up not being able to install under Windows 8, which led me to attempt to install XP.
Installing Windows XP in Virtualbox worked fine, after getting all the usb ports recognized, I installed Gerber Omega and the security key was recognized, allowing me to use the program, I installed XP drivers for the plotter, which installed successfully.
So now I have to make a decision, buy a new converter? Or attempt to install Windows XP in a separate partition on my hard drive.
(This was written by my son, who's helping me figure this out.)
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port townsend,wa seasigns@gmail.com Posts: 3 | From: port townsend, wa | Registered: Feb 2010
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I have been dealing with the same problem with Windows 7,64 bit. I have a Mimaki CG-6 which is a legacy plotter. I contacted Mimaki in Suwanee, Georgia and they emailed me a driver. It worked fine for almost a year and I started having problems with my computer recognizing the parallel port that I have my plotter plugged in to. Just had to reload Windows 7 because of Incredibar malware and had to setup my plotter again. It is working after I installed the driver even though I can't get that driver to show up under the port in Device Manager. My new computer is a Dell and one of the techs changed a setting on the port that corrected the identifying the port problem. Good luck!
-------------------- Judy Pate Signs By Judy Albany, Georgia USA 229-435-6824
Live simply...Love generously...Care deeply...Speak kindly...Leave the rest to God. Posts: 2621 | From: Albany,GA,USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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I had to install 32 bit xp using virtual machine on my windows 7 pro machine to install the driver for my old cutter. Takes a little getting used to, but works fine.
-------------------- Ace Graphics & Printing Camdenton, MO. USA
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My IT guy just told me to stay away from Windows 8, (I have another post about Windows XP being phased out) He said Windows 7 is OK, but 8 is trash, XP was the best and is history!
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Just purchased a new computer win8.I'm cutting with an old roland cam1000 using a usb to parallal.Cutting from VinylMaster Xpt seem to be ok so far.
-------------------- Ernest Clark Dahlonega Sign Co. 101 Whispering Winds Dr Murrayville,Ga 30564 Been there, Done that, Probably do it again. Posts: 134 | From: Dahlonega,Ga. USA | Registered: Dec 1998
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I have a Mimaki CG-60 EX running on win 7 64 bit, with Omega 3. I had tried the adapters on a previous computer with no luck from 4 of them. I paid $30 for a PCI Serial Port, installed it, and everything works fine.
-------------------- Don Hulsey Strokes by DON signs Utica, KY 270-275-9552 sbdsigns@aol.com
I've always been crazy... but it's kept me from going insane. Posts: 2274 | From: Utica, KY U.S.A. | Registered: Jan 1999
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window 7 and a 97 model Summa. I have a win xp PC hooked to the plotter, saves my corel 14 files as corel 8 and transfers my corel 8 files to xp PC with a memory stick and let the xp PC make plotfiles from the cor 8 files, then cut. Easier then it sounds.
-------------------- Stein Saether GullSkilt AS Trondheim Posts: 1183 | From: Trondheim Norway | Registered: Nov 1998
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I have setup a roland pnc1100,ioline smartrac,gerber hs15/two different graphtecs and a cheep cheep chineese piece of crap 60" all on win 7,....like Curtis stated on another post there really isn't much if anything at all I've found that runs on xp that won't run on win 7
-------------------- fly low...timi/NC is, Tim Barrow Barrow Art Signs Winston-Salem,NC Posts: 2224 | From: Winston-Salem,NC,USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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