not sure , but when we had it working it was an old coral draw. it was already set up we just used the red contour cut line and sent to print it then cut as required. We now have windows xp and an old coral draw and then added software that we got emailed from roland as no downloads available from their Web sight . colourchoice and firmware. the only difference is the new laptop only has usb so we added a usb to serial lead. but believe it may just need the correct settings in coral to send to Rip software?