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  • Greetings from Glasgow

    Posted by Steve-P on October 21, 2010 at 10:01 am

    Hello Signmakers,

    I’m Steve from London, but now plying my trade in Glasgow. I’ve been a screen printer for 20 years and like most self employed folk out there, it looks as if I’ll be doing it for another 30 or 40 years! I’ve also had a lot of experience in vinyl cutting (using a Summa) for the past 12 years.

    I’ve just acquired an old Roland PC600 from my friends in London, but I don’t know how it works.

    I use a Mac PowerBook G4 with Photoshop & Illustrator CS & FreeHand 10. I’ve installed ColorChoice4.1 (in the classic environment – not my preferred method), so I was wondering if there was anyone out there who could advise me on software updates & web training on the Roland for use on Mac OSX.

    I want to use the Roland for very short runs of cut stickers, with a view to developing a market & perhaps later investing in a Cadet or VersaCamm.

    Any help would be much appreciated.
    Steve

    Steve-P replied 13 years, 7 months ago 11 Members · 13 Replies
  • 13 Replies
  • Robert Lambie

    Member
    October 21, 2010 at 10:15 am

    Welcome to the boards Steve, good to have you here mate….

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  • Nicola McIntosh

    Member
    October 21, 2010 at 11:11 am

    welcome to the boards steve 😀

    nik

  • David Rowland

    Member
    October 21, 2010 at 7:56 pm

    hi there… there is many from guys/gals in same situation as you, pretty much all come from Glasgow and surrounding areas 🙂

  • Brian Little

    Member
    October 22, 2010 at 10:07 am

    hi Steve welcome to the boards mate

    Regards Brian

  • Peter Mindham

    Member
    October 22, 2010 at 10:12 am

    Hi Steve,
    Welcome. Another Scot in the bar next sign show then! 😀

    Peter

  • Jill Marie Welsh

    Member
    October 22, 2010 at 10:18 am

    Hello from Pittsburra.
    Been self employed 25 years now and still broke.
    Love….Jill
    PS
    Peter every time I see you in that hat I get a big grin.
    😀

  • Brian Little

    Member
    October 22, 2010 at 2:34 pm

    welcome to the boards Steve

    Regards Brian

  • Martin Pearson

    Member
    October 22, 2010 at 5:31 pm

    Hi Steve, welcome to the forum.

  • Graham Shand

    Member
    October 22, 2010 at 5:45 pm
    quote Steve-P:

    Hello Signmakers,

    I’m Steve from London, but now plying my trade in Glasgow. I’ve been a screen printer for 20 years and like most self employed folk out there, it looks as if I’ll be doing it for another 30 or 40 years! I’ve also had a lot of experience in vinyl cutting (using a Summa) for the past 12 years.

    I’ve just acquired an old Roland PC600 from my friends in London, but I don’t know how it works.

    I use a Mac PowerBook G4 with Photoshop & Illustrator CS & FreeHand 10. I’ve installed ColorChoice4.1 (in the classic environment – not my preferred method), so I was wondering if there was anyone out there who could advise me on software updates & web training on the Roland for use on Mac OSX.

    I want to use the Roland for very short runs of cut stickers, with a view to developing a market & perhaps later investing in a Cadet or VersaCamm.

    Any help would be much appreciated.
    Steve

    Steve, you can download the Roland pc 600 owners PDF from
    http://www.signcutpro.com/files/man/rol … E_E_R5.pdf

    regards Graham Shand

  • Phill Fenton

    Member
    October 22, 2010 at 7:30 pm
    quote Brian Little:

    hi Steve welcome to the boards mate

    Regards Brian

    quote Brian Little:

    welcome to the boards Steve

    Regards Brian

    I shall say this only vonce..

    Hi Steve – welcome 😀

  • Steve-P

    Member
    October 22, 2010 at 7:31 pm

    Hi Graham,

    Thanks for that, but I already have the original hard copy of the operators manual.

    I’m stuck on the software solution to it, could there be an open source or Mac OSX version of Roland’s ColorChoice??

  • Lynn Normington

    Member
    October 22, 2010 at 8:06 pm

    hello Steve welcome 😀 you would be better asking questions in the relevant forums.

    Lynn

  • Steve-P

    Member
    October 22, 2010 at 10:46 pm

    Thanks Brian & Lynn

    For your kind welcomes. I’m still finding my way around.

    Steve

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