can anyone help please cannot get summa d60 to work?

[Hugh Potter]

welcome to the site,

is the cutter new ? mine is about 2 yrs old now, i use it via usb (laptop) to a small square printer type plug on the cutter. design in corel12 and use ‘summa winplot’ plug-in to communicate, winplot is free i think from the website http://www.summa.de ?

[Stephen Morriss]

If it’s got no usb then it must be a fairly old machine, mines about 3 years old and its got the usb and serial port.

Go to the Summa website that Hugh has pointed you to and download the drivers and manual.

Steve

[Robert Berwick]

I used to use my D120 via a serial cable on win 98. I found a "printer driver" for it, and could print striaght out of my win 3.x/9x (16bit) software. I’ll have a look and see if I can fond the driver for you at work. It will not work with 32 bit operating systems (win 2000/xp) and I doubt it’ll work with win me either.

[SumRandi]

Hi gyula,

there are a couple of things you should check, first of all if your baud rate settings are the same as your cutting software. The default values are 9600, 8 databits, No Parity, 1 stopbit. (check the summacut manual to see where to find it).
Otherwise you can use Summa CutterControl to check serial communication (it has an auto sense feature.

[gyula]

Thanks guys, I just realized that i started another topic today, and just saw -scrolling down- that i posted this a couple of weeks ago 🙂
sorry for that.
however problem is still there, but its probably becouse like you say its an old model and hard to start it up either on windows xp or mac os x tiger.

what is interesting though is that whatever software i use, on whatever platform i got now an error message on the display of the plotter saying:
FOUT IN X-AS POS
i know the plotter is old, has only serial port, and since i am just a newbie to this industry (im a designer) i just really want to get it going to see if i can widen my professional activity, but im stuck at step 1 🙂

[SumRandi]

Hi gyula,

have you tried to contact the tech support team in Belgium.
You can reach them at support@summa.be

Kind regards

[gyula]

yes i tried that, waiting for their answer…
hopefully they can help, thanks

[Karl Williams]

Try the cutter language. it may be accessible on your control panel on the machine. if yours is on DMPL try HPGL. there may be another language.
Another thing, sometimes in your plotter driver menu in the software the correct name for the printer may be different to your machine. Try Summacut, and make sure the page sizes are correct. Hope this helps.

Good Luck.
Karl.