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First of all, I really want to thank everyone who gave me input on my last question a couple of days ago. After reading your responses and several articles I am restating my question...see what you think.
I can see that many people have had great success with using the CorelDRAW/Roland combination. There are differences of opinion, however, about whether to just load the driver off the Roland website or use CoCut as the interface.
Since I am a beginner and need to get things up and running soon, do you think the CoCut approach would be more straight-forward?
If so, do you know the cheapest place to get the CorelDRAW 11 + CoCut Combo?
Thank you again for your assistance!
-------------------- Jennifer Craig Bright Morning Signs 3908-190th Pl. SW, Lynnwood, WA 98036 brightmorning1@msn.com Posts: 72 | From: Lynnwood, WA, USA | Registered: Nov 2002
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I never tried cocut. But I did work directly from Corel9 using the roland driver on my pnc1100 and I can tell you that works fine!(once you get use to the preview print interface)but there's a reserve for tiling big jobs (never worked fine for me, I had to tile it manually).
Considering the investment, you could buy an older version of Corel (8 or 9) on e-bay, get used to it, and, just like me save your money to buy a state of the art CAS software (I grabbed GA 6, used, for 500$)and still complete using your corel for design purpose!
Well, GA is not really the state of the art but I have a lot of fun using it, And I make a good living using it!
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cutting direct from corel...is the simplest way to go....as for XP i cant say, i wont own it yet. i still use win 98SE and cut from COREL 7....8 and above are just way more program then i need to cut vinyl. i have 2 rolands a pnc-1000 in the mobile shop and a pnc-1100 at the house. both work directly from corle no bridge program.
-------------------- joe pribish-A SIGN MINT 2811 longleaf Dr. pensacola, fl 32526 850-637-1519 BEWARE THE TRUTH.....YOU MAY NOT LIKE WHAT YOU FIND Posts: 11582 | From: pensacola, fl. usa | Registered: Nov 1998
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The Roland drivers for Windows 2000/XP do not work with 2000 but they work just fine with XP. I'm with Joe on the direct cutting, but I am sure that you would like Co Cut just as well. I just happen to like to keep things simple and cutting direct is the simplest method I know of.
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