Using Summa with Macintosh

[jmcnicoll]

Anyone out there using a summa cutter and doing your design work on a mac with Illustrator? We have 3 large format printers using the EFI Fiery rip and need to purchase a cutter for decals and related. Vendor tells us the summa isn't the best choice do to their software being PC only. Summa tells me there are third party software packages that will work, but I'd like to hear the results from a user. Any info would be great.

thanks,

Jim

 

[Mac34]

I am using an 8yr. old PowerMac, Vinyl Express Master software from 1997, and my Summa T-Series 30" cutter is probably only a couple years old... and it all does everything I need it to I would buy another Summa cutter in a heartbeat! Good luck!

 

[artsnletters]

i've been using flexi, an OLD mac g3 and a summa T-610 and a Summa T-750 for years. You just need a program with appropriate drivers, like flexi.
Tim

 

[jmcnicoll]

Are you guys just cutting vinyl lettering? We want to do that as well as print on our mimakis via our Fiery rip and then contour cut printed vinyl.


jim

 

[Bill Modzel]

Jim,
I'll point you towards Graphtec. It comes with Illy CS2 plug in drivers. It sets registration marks for digital printing and cutting. I'm running a PosterJet RIP via Parallels/windoz XP right now and the combo works great.