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you say it cut fine on the xy axis,...well the plotter has only two axis x and y,...normally y is the axis that follows the blade carriage guide and x is the axis that follows the pinch rollers and material feed,...have you checked to see if the blade carriage has jumped off the extrusion,...or...

windows twain support ended with xp,.....they use wia(windows imaging architecture)now you need to check your scanner support to see if 64 bit drivers are available for download and or buy a new scanner that is win 7/8 wia compliant

I seem to recall a curve smoothing option in the plotter menu that if set wrong would make the stepper motors chatter bad while cutting curves

those old rolands can be noisy by today's standards,... they used stepper motors which are much noisier than todays servo motors,....that noise used to be the sound of the plotter making you money

those old signs were called suitcase signs,....the salesmen would go from business to business with samples that fit into large suitcases,..the buyer then had the option to order his copy often as not with vacuformed raised letters and or changable copy as shown in the example.....storefronts...

Sell the job with the stipulation that the banner be replaced as needed,....no way a banner that size is going to last much past two years as it will either fade real bad and or dry rot in the pvc & backing fabric and tear in the wind,...all customers want your work to last longer than the...

you could always go to a dealership and take a photo like we used to do when they had to be hand painted,....have that printed then adjust the file to fit an actual headlight panel or tailight form on the body,...if you cant do that then I would suggest you turn down the work,....if you do...

you might want to try and reload your nouse driver,...the driver file may have become corrupted,....

the original poster only stated his need to cut vinyl not run a rip and contour station,...thus no need to confuse the need for an older plotter that won't do contour cutting anyway,...a cut file 90% of the time isn't large enough for the extra ram to be an issue unless that file has a bitmap...

from the specs I've found online flexi 8.1 is 32 bit and is not compatible with a 64 bit operating systems,...you might consider trying an older 32 bit operating system in order to avoid the hassle you'll have to go thru to make it work on a 64 bit os

windows has two types of parallel port drivers that it loads one is an eep type and the other is the ecp type the old rolands use the earlier ecp version that newer versions of windows do not load by default,...you must set the mode to the ecp type port needed. it is usually much simpler to run...

Like FrankW stated above it is not the plotter or operating system that makes an older plotter function correctly (or not function) but the interface(serial port/comm port/usb adapter) and the driverr for your softare that you use to send files to th plotter.Most newer pc's tend to use a 64 bit...

the roland will have better access to support and parts etc than the allen,....that being said the allen is more of an industrial cutter and more complex machine with more capabilities,...just don't expect alot of help with the allen if you dont have all the manuals and software/drivers etc.

the money you'll lose on material loss and labor time over a six month period of steady use should offset the cost of a better plotter,...i have a 60" doorstop collecting dust that cost $400 new on ebay that was given to me by a client for simply pointing that fact out to him while trying to...

the plotter doesn't run on 32 or 64 bit it works from a graphic language such as hp-gl or gp-gl. the 32 vs 64 bit issues arise from the drivers used by the software addressing the actual port hardware addresses within the computer itself with 32 bit addresses and or 64 bit addresses,....the...

nuther vote for Jill's suggestion,...got walls here that have been up for over 25 years,..they are faded and flaking slightly but still effecive advertising,... some are even kind of local landmarks edited to add,... have to restore a wall next week that has been up in a nearby town for at...

Usually it is the cost of the software and whether or not the purchaser qualifies for the discounted cost. most software companies will offer a discounted version to promote use to students who hopefully will become proffessionals who demand that particular software title.some discounted...

looks like an old hand cut silk screen film job from the days before fonts,... when we called them letter styles and the "S" and The "R' are dead giveaways along with the short center horizontal stroke on the "E"

Impact with the kerning closed up then skewed and stretched is very close

Flexi uses its own driver settings whereas corel uses the windows driver settings,,,if you go to http://support.rolanddga.com/docs/Documents/departments/Technical%20Services/Manuals%20and%20Guides/pc600_user_manual.pdf to find the users manual online and read the section on the windows driver...