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Versaworks and Vista home premium

Posted by Terry Keven on 6 October 2009 at 00:51

Hi,

Are any of you running VW on Vista. I have just bought a new PC that had vista and couldnt get it going and had to wind the PC back to XP, now it works fine. I cant get it to work on my laptop running Vista either, it just wont find the printer. The printer is an Roland SP540V
I thought I must have a setting wrong in Vista somewhere.

Thanks

Terry

Terry Keven replied 15 years, 9 months ago 6 Members · 9 Replies
9 Replies

Richie Beddoes

Member
6 October 2009 at 08:17

Hi Terry

I have had the same problem just bought a Versacamm and loaded versaworks printer will load but will only show in the print folder the printer still works but does not show in versaworks on my machine it only shows as a port.
The guy who did my installation has told me that versaworks is not compatible with cetain versions of windows here are the versions it is compatable with:
Vista ultimate service pack 1 (32 bit edition)
Vista business service pack 1 (32 bit edition)
Vista ultimate (32 bit edition)
XP pro service pack 3
XP pro service pack 2
windows 2000 service pack 4

Hope this helps

Richie
Terry Keven

Member
6 October 2009 at 10:50

Thanks for your reply Richie,
that explains it, as mine is Vista Home Premium so not compatible, where as the operating system that it will work on is XP Pro service pack 3

Thanks again

Terry
Shaun Cleary

Member
6 October 2009 at 14:48

I have vista home 64bit and it works fine, also had it on 32bit and no problems.
Andrew Blackett

Member
6 October 2009 at 14:51

I’m running vista home premium too, no problems at all.

I assume you’ve set the IP addresses etc as you would of had on your XP machine?

Andy
Terry Keven

Member
6 October 2009 at 21:39

Yes IP address was correct, when I click verify it wont find the printer.

Terry
Arnt Øverland

Member
12 December 2009 at 01:08

quote Terry Keven:

Yes IP address was correct, when I click verify it wont find the printer.

Terry

Hi

I had problems with updating VW 2,30 on Vista h.p.64 and it would not print etc. so I had to copy it from my old pc to a dongle and into the new pc and then i had to set up the printer port. I used the windows 7 tutorials on the roland site after this it worked perfect
I use Signlab for versaworks

Arnt
Terry Keven

Member
12 December 2009 at 02:18

Thanks Arnt

I never did get it working and went back to XP, I’ll give it another go

Terry
Lee Attewell

Member
14 December 2009 at 09:54

Hey Terry,

Have you updated Versaworks to the latest version? I’m just about to change to 64 bit with my computer currently running Windows 7 32 bit to a 64 bit environment. I spoke with the guys I bought my printer from, and they have a machine running vista in 64 bit.

Doesn’t seem like Versaworks to not have pretty current software.
Terry Keven

Member
14 December 2009 at 22:00

Hi Lee

Yes it is all up to date, I’ll get serious about it in the new year and probably give Vista a miss and upgrade to W7 on both my PC’s

thanks

Terry