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I have it, but haven't loaded it yet. I'm maybe like you, i want to know something about it before i try to use it. It came with my update to Sign Lab E-6
-------------------- John Harville J & K Screen Printing Co. 260 Gilliland Dr Danville, Va 24540
Still working on a slogan. Posts: 99 | From: Danville, VA USA | Registered: Jul 1999
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Been messing with this since SignLab e-6 came out last year. SignLab e-6 has a modified version built into it and works just fine. If you have the rip and print feature and the contour cut feature in SignLab, it's a simple point and click operation. I've been Using these features since I got my Roland PC-600, no problems. The problem comes into play when you try to install Photoscript LTE, or Photoscript PLUS, or FastRip. They are all made by CADLINK and they all us a Rip manager called CLEO. It's a little cat that pops up on your bottom info bar and I've learned to hate that little cat! It's like putting multiple foremen in one shop...they don't work together at all! I've doccumented a good number of hours on the phone with CADLINK over this situation. Photoscrip Plus will allow you to print quality halftone positives on a few wide formate desktop inkjet printers like the EPSON 3000 which I have and I do screen printing, so I've gone through all of the scenarios trying to make something work. Yes, when they are functioning, there great! So my solution is this. Instead of using the Photoscript that is built into SignLab e-6 or the Photoscript LTE that came with SignLab e-6 if you did the early upgrade, I'm using the Roland ColorChoice RIP (that came with the Roland PC-600) through the Print comand and it recognizes the contour cut from SignLab. Broke a few ribbons and had to call Roland before I got the settings right. I've installed FASTRIP which is a task modified version of Photoscript PLUS and it works just great. The stand alone Photoscript Plus puts out some very nice work as well and did work fine with Corel Draw 8 but if you have Signlab e-6 do not install any other "CADLINK RIP" as it will disable the built in RIP feature. Cadlink tech support has assured me they are working on a solution and it will be availible very soon. We shall see. Hope this helps and saves someone some grief. Robin
-------------------- Robin Sharrard Sharrard Graphics & Sign Fallon, Nevada rds@phonewave.net "Proud $$$ Supporter" Posts: 282 | From: Fallon, Nevda, USA | Registered: Feb 1999
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I'll be using it to print on a hp3500 from (mainly) Corel, no cutting required, and the only computer here with signlab on it is attached to the engraver and we don't print from it. It sounds like it should work O.K. then. I'll keep ya'll posted.
-------------------- Mike O'Neill
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