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havnt been on the BB much lately, but I KNOW some you experts can help.
I got a new computer with windows 2000 pro. I downloaded the roland CM-300 driver for windows NT. There were not any options for windows 2000 drivers but due to the fact that my startup screen says windows 2000 with NT TECHNOLOGY I loaded that driver. Maybe thats my problem?
Or it may be that I am virtually computer illiterate. I did this about 3 years ago, but have hit a brick wall. I have "that" file/driver on my desktop. But dont know what to do next. I went to " add printer " but cant get anywhere.
Meanwhile I am going to review the post that Dave G. wrote.
Thanks in advance for ANY help/response!
-------------------- Ricky Simpson Simpson Signs South Central VA, USA "railroader aspiring to be fulltime SignArtist." Posts: 246 | From: VA | Registered: Jan 2000
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Rick your trouble can be for many reasons. You'll have to trouble shot each area. But I would surely change my driver to the Windows XP driver that roland offers. If you are running your connections from the serial port you'll need to make sure your setting are correct. Bits per second: 9600 Data bits: 8 Parity: None Stop: 1 Flow Control: Hardware
This should be set when you install your driver. In control panel simple go to the serial port to make sure it's set. Also make sure that your roland is set the same. If you are just using your plotter to cut make sure you have your graphic lines set to .004
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I am making the connection via a parallel port. And I know about the outline....I have been using the setup on my old computer for 3 years.
I used the add/remove hardware wizard but the computer didnt recognize any new hardware(my cm300). Does the driver have to be installed before the computer recognizes the plotter(printer)?
Also I get to the screen where I can select my printer to install but naturally a Roland cm300 is not one of the choices. Any ideas?
I may be on to something.....found "generic" and it let me type in cm300.
-------------------- Ricky Simpson Simpson Signs South Central VA, USA "railroader aspiring to be fulltime SignArtist." Posts: 246 | From: VA | Registered: Jan 2000
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I have the driver on the screen. How do I install it from there? It seems when I did this before I automatically followed a "wizard" or when I put the disk in it did its on thing.
See I told you I was computer illiterate.
-------------------- Ricky Simpson Simpson Signs South Central VA, USA "railroader aspiring to be fulltime SignArtist." Posts: 246 | From: VA | Registered: Jan 2000
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Ricky...Bad news...no matter how you install the driver for the Roland (you have to use the install.exe file that comes with the driver...NOT add printers in "settings") You won't be happy.
The NT and 2000 drivers will NOT work correctly with Win 2000...I went thru this for 2 years. What will happen is that after an initial, if you are lucky, 3 or 4 successful cuttings the driver will start crashing your computer. Blue scren of death. After many frustrating weeks, I finally gave up and used my laptop (with win 98), networked to the main computer with 2000, as the "cutting" computer. I got a new laptop this summer and it has Win XP on it. The NT/2000 drivers work fine in XP. I still cut from my laptop.
By the way the NT/2000 drivers also require NO FILL but the same hairline outline as always. I f you assign a fill AND an outline the objects will cut twice. Once for the fill and once for the outline. The "fill" cut is more like a pounce pattern though.
Sorry for the bad news!
[ January 11, 2003, 07:19 PM: Message edited by: Dave Grundy ]
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Thanks Dave for your response albeit what I had rather not hear. You saved me from pulling my hair out over it. Thats what I get for not doing my homework. I thought I had read that xp was the one that gave problems.
I had planned on giving my other computer to the kids. I will have to rethink that now.
-------------------- Ricky Simpson Simpson Signs South Central VA, USA "railroader aspiring to be fulltime SignArtist." Posts: 246 | From: VA | Registered: Jan 2000
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Ricky..The good news is...Win2000 and Win98 are mutually compatible when networked on seperate computers even if Win2000 is on the NT file system. It recognises that win 98 is trying to access files and it converts to FAT32 and sends them over the network. So you can install Corel on both and just pull over the Win2000 version of Corel files and cut from Win98 as usual.
By the way...this also can be a benefit because it forces you to have a copy of your files on both computers...A nce back-up system in case of a hard drive failure!!
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How exactly can I create that network you are talking about.
Keep in mind what I said earlier.....I am not familiar with alot of computer lingo.
Do I do this with one monitor and what will I have to do to the new machine for it to be network ready .
Thanks again
-------------------- Ricky Simpson Simpson Signs South Central VA, USA "railroader aspiring to be fulltime SignArtist." Posts: 246 | From: VA | Registered: Jan 2000
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Ricky..If you aren't into computer stuff too much you might want to have a local computer guy do it for you. (Maybe a friend?)
The setup I use involves an ethernet card installed in each computer. (cheap..maybe $15 each)
Then a cable is plugged in to each one and then you set up the network in Windows and activate file sharing.
Like I said..if you aren't comfortable doing it yourself try to find a friend that you are sure will know what he is doing. HEY!!! maybe your kids can do it for you!!! I know that kids these days know more about puters than we will ever know!
OH! another way...it is a pain in the butt but would work for you for a while, until you get a network set up. Use a floppy disk. CorelDraw vector files are small..just copy the file on the Win2000 machine to a floppy and then copy it to the Win 98 machine and cut.
You will need 2 monitors, keyboards, mice...unless you disconnect and re-connect though.
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-------------------- Ricky Simpson Simpson Signs South Central VA, USA "railroader aspiring to be fulltime SignArtist." Posts: 246 | From: VA | Registered: Jan 2000
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Dave or anyone else.....What advantages would I lose if any if I were to use windows98 vs windows 2000 or windows xp.
I really dont have room for 2 computers and am considering going back to win 98 with my new computer so that my roland/corel combo will work. My new system has win 2000.
Thanks in advance!
-------------------- Ricky Simpson Simpson Signs South Central VA, USA "railroader aspiring to be fulltime SignArtist." Posts: 246 | From: VA | Registered: Jan 2000
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