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Very old Roland PNC-1000, can it still be used?
Have discovered a very old Roland cutter from round 15 plus years ago from my fathers Sign business . It still turns on and functions but I would need to connect it to a new screen which would require some sort of adapter I’m guessing plus a keyboard which would also need An adapter, does anyone think this cutter is worth trying to use or would it be simply to old and not be up to today’s standards?
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It will do the job albeit a bit slower than a newer machine.
http://support.rolanddga.com/_layouts/R … m=PNC-1000
Roland still support it…sort of.
Likely to be a serial or very old parallel connector / centronics.
Can get cards in a new PC to run these or USB adapters.
Runs on HPGL so a fairly generic driver. Can get up and running fairly quickly but be aware spares are limited and software to run it is required.
Dave
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Hi Dave,
Thanks for you response. I will need to download those drivers to my computer. It was never used on a computer before it just had its own screen. Will need to get the converters first for the screen, computer and keyboard, I imagine they do not cost too much. Then I can see if this printer is worth salvaging, for the sake of a couple of converters it is definitely worth a try surely? Speed of cutting is not too much of an issue.
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