How to use colorcamm??

[Chris Wool]

is that a pc60 or 600

[Phillip Patterson]

Colorcamm pcn500 I think it is.

[Chris Wool]

if its a pnc5000 then don’t bother trying to print with it unfortunately i had one.

keep it for just cutting its slow by today’s standard but nice and accurate.
its driven by a windows print driver directly from corel or illustrator, the vector artwork needs a hairline to know what path to cut.

driver here

http://download.rolanddg.jp/en/color.html#pnc5000 but only up to XP

[Phillip Patterson]

Thanx Chris,

Can i Use versaworks or just print through illustartor??

Would I use any cutline or a cut countor specified colour like I do with the versacamm sp300v?

Also how come its not worth printing with it??

Thanks for your help and helping me with the driver for it.

[Chris Wool]

not VW only the windows print driver in corel it will not print any line under 0.01mm but will cut it.
the 5000 was the first roland thermal printer and used the large upright carts that can be refiled with pc60 ribbons. there was two types of cart one with muliti colour ribbon and other was solid colour. also you could use the alps cart which was a wax ribbon multi colour.

along the top of the cover should be colour bands where the head would stop to tell you what colour ribbon to fit next.
it was a real pain and the print quality was very hit and miss and very dependent on the vinyl used.

after the 5000 came the pc50 still not good, then the pc60 totally different build design – carts and works well mine still going today. then the pc600 another good product.
all got left behind as the solvent print revolution took off but have there special uses that solvent can’t get near. mind you my VS540 MT WT has started to do some of the jobs the 60 was used for.

all these were competing against the edge printer which apart from small lettering issues were far superior.

unless you have carts to play with save your money and don’t buy any.