Is there a way i can run my Summa Cutter from a Mac?

[Mathew Gibson]

I do this but use parallels desktop a piece of cake macs dont tend to be able to read summa drivers

[John Childs]

quote Ben Hansen:

is there anyway i can free up my PC and get my mac to send them straight to the cutter? its a Summa D140.

I don’t know about the D140 in particular, but we have been running Summa, and other cutters, from Macs for years.

What’s your problem? USB?

[Warren Beard]

Hi Ben

I cut direct from my imac to my Summa using MacSign, it came with the plotter software and has mac and pc options. I copy and paste from Illustrator into it and then cut, it has limits to what you can do in it as it’s free but to paste and line up and press cut it works perfectly, just set it up and get it ready for cutting in your design software and paste what needs to be cut.

cheers

Warren

[Ben Hansen]

thanks for your replies 🙂 i will dig through my cd’s and see if there was Macsign cd with it 🙂 my fingers are crossed!!

thanks guys, il let you know how it goes 🙂

[Karl Williams]

If you have the disc then you should have the dongle as well.

[Warren Beard]

There’s no dongle with MacSign, you get the software free but can only use about a tenth of the features unless you upgrade, then you might need a dongle but it runs without one as supplied.

If you didn’t get the disc I’m sure you can download it off the net or even direct from the Summa website.

cheers

Warren