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  • is there a printed manual included in signlab 7 upgrade?

    Posted by Kevin.Beck on October 6, 2004 at 11:03 am

    Just rang about upgrading to signlab 7.

    Was told you do not get a printed manual, with either the upgrade or a full system….

    This to me is a step backward. Sure you get help files, but most people would prefer a printed manual.

    Where did cadlink get the info that their customers prefer not to have the manual..

    I personally would pay extra for a printed manual, perhaps they should give the customer the choice.

    very disapointed in cadlink. Bad move. 🙁

    Gordon Forbes replied 19 years, 7 months ago 4 Members · 5 Replies
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  • Alan Drury

    Member
    October 6, 2004 at 11:16 am

    I can cope with no manual but the help files must be very good to compensate. Corel don’t include a clipart or font manual now but it is available to buy separately if required.
    Alan

  • Ian Higgins

    Member
    October 6, 2004 at 12:19 pm

    There is a user guide included with Signlab 7 but pretty useless and the help files are of no help at all!!! I have just up graded to 7 and am struggeling with it…
    Cadlink have just emailed me to say they are now doing a UK training course for signlab to include Print & Cut… That is probably why there are no user manuals.

    http://fp.cadlink.plus.com/sl_uk_suppor … e_main.htm

  • Rod Gray

    Member
    October 6, 2004 at 1:03 pm

    How you guys getting on with version 7 then?

    I saw a post claiming it was an improvement over 6. I tried the demo of 6 and wasn`t too impressed.

    7 have potential ya think ?

  • Alan Drury

    Member
    October 6, 2004 at 5:25 pm

    From a vinyl point of view I wouldn’t say the improvement was huge except multiple instances and no lag before cutting starts – can’t speak regarding printing. I would say that I much prefere it over V5, and have had no stability problems and although it still needs some ‘fine tuning’ on the whole very pleased, when it arrived I was installed, cutting and productive in a very short period.
    Alan

  • Gordon Forbes

    Member
    October 6, 2004 at 7:07 pm

    I feel its got nothing to do with Cadlink. Its the industry as a whole and the ways companies work nowadays.

    No stock cuts costs etc etc in all forms. Most businesses are just a shell of there former selves in the new corporate ?>llsh+^it way of running things. I don’t care what any of them say I could guarantee none of them provide the level of service they did 5-10 years ago regardless of any of the tripe they spout.

    They spend more time in corporate image being politically correct SAP and all that related hub flub upper management loading more and more on to the lower levels while they spend time in endless managment meetings etc etc most of which are nothing to do with day to day work.

    All it does is take money out of the pot.

    Something has got to give and at the end of the day its COSTS

    Profit disapearing so they cut them more and more hence no printed manuals (Just an example) most of these companies do the same now all you get is a quick installation guide industry wide so don’t moan about just Cadlink not supplying them.

    I know because I work in one.

    Goop

    my little rant over for the day.

    Its there in HTML if you want to print it difference being it costs YOU money to print not them

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