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in desperate need of help installing old D1010 on Win 7
sorry to bother you with such an old machine…
I suspect this is just a minor glitch for you, but I am simply stuck, running out of ideas!I had the chance to buy an old Summa D1010 – when I picked it up I asked the guy how he was running it but he couldn’t tell me much since a buddy of his had set up the communication.
Now I am trying to get it to work with a laptop running a win 7 64, plugging in an USB-serial adapter (tried several); I downloaded the Summa Tools, Control and Winplot; I seem to have a communication between laptop and plotter, but cannot get the plotter to cut.
I get a response from the plotter when using Cutter Tools, can get him to run the tests, he recognizes the paper size.
I am using Illustrator to create the file, but since I cannot get the plugin to nestle itself, I use Winplot to import the file and try to cut from there.
But when I import an AI-file (saved as Illustrator 3) wanting to cut I get a message saying:
"failed to get extents from cutter
cutcmd_failtimeout
failed due to timeout
check if cutter is online and if cable is attached"And from then on the plotter seems unresponsiv.
Would anyone have a hunch?
best regards! Christoph
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Try running the summa program in ‘Administrator Mode’ might help, had an issue before with a summa cutter, this helped.
Hope it works for you!
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thank you, Colin, I will try!
(did run the set ups in admin mode…)best regards – Christoph
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I don’t know if it is still the case as chipsets have been upgraded over the last few years but the FTDI chipset use to handle working as a virtual com port far better than the prolific chipset. Have a search on the forum & you will see that most of the adaptor problems were fixed by buying an adaptor with an FTDI chipset 😆 😆
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