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what’s best to go with an apple mac
hi, I’m planning on getting a cheap vinyl cutter to make stickers etc.
I’m a mac user and i have no access to a PC
was wondering if anyone knows if a p-cut or foison is compatible with a mac?
if so, are the mac drivers readily available?
thanks in advance…
mike
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11 Replies
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Considering the problems PC users have I imagine it’s even more difficult with a Mac.
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macs are usually much more straight forward than pcs so as long as specific mac drives were available i’m sure it would be not too difficult to set up.
my problem is finding a suitable cutter that includes these drivers
are there any mac users within the forum? what cutters do you use?
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Cut straight from illustrator?
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Quite a few of us are Mac based, either run windows on your Mac to drive one of these machines or buy a graphtec (or similar e.g Roland etc) which we use, will cut straight from illustrator no problems and up and running as soon as you plug it in, plus you get a good cutter with decent backup.
Jason
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i cut straight from illustrator with a plugin for my graphtec, you can also use plugin for coreldraw
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Ditto Jason and Mark.
I’ve always used macs but do yourself a favour and buy a decent plotter.
My first, a Roland Camm1 is still going strong after 12 years and my Graphtec which is 3 years old is a real good investment.
I use Flexi to run them but Illustrator or corel will run the Graphtec.
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Snap Neil, our first cutter was a Roland 1210, still going strong and we bought a Graphtec a couple of years ago FC7000, brilliant piece of kit.
Jason
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Thanks everyone for your advice which has steered me to looking at the graphtec cutters.
my budget is tight as the cutter would not be for any commercial use.
i have been looking at the ‘New Craft Robo CC200-20’. a very small machine but it’s the only graphtec in my budget and would probably suit my needs of producing nice, sharp, palm sized stickers, from a mac.
what does everyone think? would this machine suit my needs?
thanks, mike
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It’s okay, I know some who would disagree with me but if you are going to be using it a bit I would forget about it, it’s annoyingly noisy, however I would definitely look for a good second hand machine which would probably only be about £100 ‘s more expensive, Roland did a small machine a few years ago I think it was the 910 or something like that, you could probably pick one of those up for a similar price or contact a company such as signmaster, grafityp, Patrick thorn (who is a Mac specialist as well) and see what the have that’s been put in as part exchange, you’ll be surprised at how well they perform, my Roland is 14years old and still going strong.
Jason
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Summa work great with mac and they are better than Roland.
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quote Aitor:Summa work great with mac and they are better than Roland.
Summa are better than Roland ?!? thats a very sweeping statement on what evidence do you base this comment or is it just because you own a summa?
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