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Advice needed urgent please.
Hi everyone.
I’ve been using a PC for many years with a Refine 721 cutter, designing on Corel Draw X3 converting to EPS and cutting from Artcut.
I have now gone to MAC and need to change everything over. I explained this when I bought the Mac and was advised to get Paralel Desktop so I can run my old PC on the Mac.
To be honest the Mac doesn’t like it and won’t connect to the cutter.
Could anyone advise me on what to do? What graphic program can I use which I can use my EPS files with and cut from? Also has anyone connected a chinese cutter to a Mac?
Thank you.
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5 Replies
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Hi Kelvin. I’m not familiar with that particular cutter, is it a USB or serial connection??
Stafford
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Went similar route a couple of years back. You may find simplest solution could be to continue using the pc to run your plotter and use the mac for allotter work. I have old pcs runing plotter, router, edge and my wide format. One program only on each specific to each machine. All design work done on mac and exported. Don’t have to worry about any conflicts that way
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Yes I think your right. The PC was a bit slow and I also edit videoa which was why I switched to the Mac. I think I’ll keep the PC. And one more question: What graphic software can I use which can export to EPS files?
Thanks
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I use all Adobe now, Illustrator and Photoshop. Prior to switching it was flexi. Still use flexi on the large format. It is the least painful way of making the pc to mac switch. If you need to move old files to the mac, you can always save them in illustrator format and import as you need each one
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Most graphic software will export to EPS. Corel being the most popular I would imagine.
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