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the best and easiest way to be sure is to buy a cable that is labeled as such ,..they usually run under $20 and you will waste that much time in testing the pin outs with a tester,... edited to add,... be sure not to buy an extension cable as they are 99.9% of the time straight thru cables...

S'N'S with the growing number of Iphones and Ipads out there and the number of folks who believe they don't need security on these devices it makes for a whole new exponentially greater number of targets for hackers,...most of these people tend to have more money as the devices are not cheap...

you will need a null modem,rsc 232 compliant serial cable somewhere in the chain of ADAPTERS/CABLES,...some brand name cables call this an hp serial cable,..the plotter has to handshake with the computer in order to function and it can only do this with a bi directional communications utilized...

Macs are top of the list for malicious attacks right now. With half the populace owning an apple device there is no longer the statistical chance of not getting hacked and or not being a target of malware/virus and nonexistance of security vulnerabilities that were prevalent in the past,...get...

Arlo what program are you wanting to cut from?

Size should always be put down with a good overall coverage but with the thinest coat possible,...when the size puddles up it does what we gilders call "drowning" the gold and thus you end up with a dull spot where the gold breaks thru to a wet puddled portion or drip in the size ,....this...

on the projects I have gilded v-carved letters I have done the same sizing process as Billct suggested above but when I laid the leaf I used loose leaf glass gold and used a fitch very similar to a makeup blush brush(very soft black hair) to press the gold down into the v of the carved...

If $2 will buy ya some hope go for it!

Most plotters tend to jerk between plot language commands from a curve command to a straight line command,...this happens when the plotter is sent a plot file for a curve translated into a bunch of very small straight segements that appear to be a curve such as one would find in a dxf file with...

I still have a copy and dongle somewhere for cadlink(the dos precurser to signlab,it was a 4b emulator program with a distortion module) the last time I used it I booted off a floppy disk to dos from a machine the hard drive had crashed on and used it to cut some quickie job,...seems the machine...

Years ago when the internet was just starting to show up with compuserv and aohell there was netscape,which was the first user friendly and practical browser.I can remember the time when one had to type in an ip address(pre dns) to get to a website address.In his attempt to oust netscape browser...

Try petroleum pump service outfit,..here we use southern pump and tank, Joe,...I'm sure there is one in your area(spatco in jacksonville) these outfits cater to your oil jobbers and pump repair mechanics and usually stock these type signs as they are required by law in most areas . they usually...

In school I was also taught to stay on top of any tech news,..thus I read anything that I see hit the media on technology that I find,...seems apple recently had good reason to send an update that addressed some major security issues and flaws in their network structure,If you keep on top of...

sounds like a problem for flexi support then,...

from what I remember of back in my early plotter days(early 1990's) a buffer overrun is a problem with the output device(printer/plotter) memory buffer, not the station itself so you may need to investigate the status of any memory modules and or chips in the output device and or the spooling...

the ugly guy in my avatar is actually me and I designed and did the sign in the background at the track I worked at for a couple of decades or more among others,....my real name i prefer to keep in confidence amongst the few who have actually met and know here,..... like techman I use my alias...

try turning the plotter off between cut files each time,...the inexpensive plotters are notorious about plot buffer overflows,and that is the surest way to clear any data in the plotter buffer

We were taught at school to turn the updates off and to download them manually and personally supervise and review any updates and patches before installing them,...there is a reason folks in the IT field call Tuesdays terrible Tuesdays because that is the day Mickey soft usually releases...

I have to side with Gino here,...My old "master" taught me that anyone who knew his abc's and ten numbers could be a sign painter and often as not they idolize the person and techniques taught by that person,....but,....in the end you can be damned good at something but be damned good at doing...

I keep reading that each computer has it's own mac address here and feel as though I must add a correction to that concept that is factually correct,...the mac address is a machine specific address to the "NIC" (network interface card or adapter) not the pc,...in other words each network adapter...