GSP Sprint II

I still run one. Not a quick machine but it doesn't require babysitting so it does just fine. Cut quality if just fine. Keep it clean and well lubricated and it will run forever.

Do you have the interface card so that you can drive it from a PC or do you just have the console?

 

I use ours with Omega from Gerber. I imagine it will work with other software but I've never done it.

If you're looking for software, this ad was posted recently at 4EdgeTalk.com

Then a followup eight days later:

I'm not recommending for or against Omega software, but if you're in the market for it, $1500 is a fair price.

 

I would suggest you do a search at the GSP Website. They may have maintenance instructions with pictures that you can download. Having owned several of these machines, I can tell you that they're pretty straightforward and that a manual is probably not available and not really needed.

Lube with sewing machine oil (best) or 3-in-One (okay) after first cleaning all chrome shafts with alcohol. Remove all debris from the black tool lifter bar to the rear of the toolhead with alcohol. Open the cover on the toolhead and you will see a bronze bearing. Rotating it will reveal a hole into which one drop of oil every six months is recommended.

The most common part to fail it the toothed gear belt that turns the knife holder. They're good for five to ten years but eventually start losing teeth causing the knife to end up at an incorrect position to cut. You'll see snag & tear marks in the vinyl when this happens.

Other things that can go wrong:

Home position is set by a light hitting a photoelectric cell through a slot in a wheel that rotates. If you replace the toothed belt previously mentioned, you also have to reset the home position by adjusting the position of the slotted wheel.

Y-Axis belts sometimes break.

The lifter fork under the knife holder can wear down. Contact a Gerber distributor for Teflon "Theta washers" to place between the fork and the knife holder to compensate for wear and to prevent additional wear.

 

What kind of interface card do you have in the Sprint? You have to have one. It will be plugged into the motherboard of the Sprint.

I use a Gerber LMK card (Lettering Machine Kit). It is plugged into a slot in the motherboard and has a cable that plugs into the card and the other end is then connected to a COM port on my PC. If your are plugging it into the Flexi dongle, you are attempting to run it from an LPT printer port. Gerber doesn't support this kind of a hookup ... not sure about Flexi but I doubt it. COM ports are male and come in either 9 pin or 25 pin. You should be plugging your cable into a connector on the back of your computer that looks like this (black dots are male pins):



If you are attaching to any port on the Sprint which is on the back of the console, you are not attaching to a valid port.

GDS Mode is for bringing a digitized file in from an obsolete Gerber Tablet System. When I run my Sprint, I press the top left function key which is labelled "Online". The next function key to the right is labelled "Offline".

 

I'm at home today. I can take a digital pic tomorrow and post it as to where what plugs into my setup. You may want to do the same.