no, some of us never got "the hook." 1992, guy tried to sell me a goober 4b, cadlink card yada yada, all the add on crap you needed to run it and at that time geber was getting $100 a font. guy wanted $3-4000, i said ill pass, best thing i ever did. After much research i found out that COREL 3 would do the same job, ANNNNNNNNNNNND use every font on the computer. more research and i found that rolands seemed to be the most portable to any program. sooooooooooooooo i found a BRAND NEW, roland PNC-1000, now this cut 20" material over the goober 15", actually 13.5". so there was 3 advantages to buyin a roland. why i say brand new was the owner went to some trade show, spent a lot of money to buy the cutter, computer, LETTER ART 5.0, and then just let it all sit in a corner till i saw his add to sell it. i went and looked at it, he want to sell it all, by this time the computer was outdated, told him i had no use for it. all i wanted was the plotter. so he agreed to sell it for $1600. then as i was going out the door with it said here take the sign program i got no use for it. so i did. it was an ok DOS based program but i liked COREL so much better, even tho it was limited to 30" x 30" of work space. but i worked around this by breaking up anything bigger into 30" cuts. so i had another $400 dollars i bought vinyl and tape with that, and i was in bus-ness)))))
when corel 7 came out, they had increased workspace to 150 feet x 150 feet, this was the only program i needed from then on. still today i cut direct from corel X3, no bridge or add on program. i now have a roland CX-300.....SWEEEEEEEEEET!!!!!
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