I received a 24" Panther vinyl cutter and was wondering if there is any way to use CorelDraw X3 or X5?
This is an old Signwarehouse cutter that was made by GCC (Jaguar).
Is there a printer driver for this cutter?
Any help would be appreciated.
Jim said: I received a 24" Panther vinyl cutter and was wondering if there is any way to use CorelDraw X3 or X5? This is an old Signwarehouse cutter that was made by GCC (Jaguar). Is there a printer driver for this cutter? Any help would be appreciated.
Your plotter is a (firmware) modified GCC Jaguar II 61 cutter. (I have the same unit, here). The way that I cut vinyl out of CorelDRAW, is that I have Eurosystems' CoCut software.
CoCut can be used as a stand-alone design and cut or in conjunction with CorelDRAW, where your design (or selected objects in your design) may be sent directly to CoCut and CoCut sends the items to the plotter.
To find out more about CoCut, you can go to Corel's main web site, here, and look under the Graphics section of the list of products, for CoCut or CoCut Professional.
Hugh Johnson said:To find out more about CoCut, you can go to Corel's main web site, here, and look under the Graphics section of the list of products, for CoCut or CoCut Professional.
Hi hugh,
On the site: "CoCUT X4 is a cost-effective alternative to expensive standalone sign programs." which means 399.00. :-)
Another idea to consider is eCut, version 5 was just released. 69.00 per system, and does much much more... neon... leds... nesting..
Cut/Plot functions:
Main features:
Jeff, the macro looks great. However, the Sign Warehouse Panther GRC-61 (The firmware modified GCC Jaguar II) plotter does not adhere to HPGL/GPGL/PLT ASCII data, which is a limiting factor. However, it does react to binary (non ASCII numeral text) data streams. And this is limiting on what could be used to drive the plotter.
In my case, I am able to use the GCC Jaguar II binary driver that CoCut provides in their long list of plotter drivers.
I wish I could get more info about what Sign Warehouse did to the firmware, to restrict it so, so that I could write a PLT (HPGL) to binary data converter/driver to use as a more direct means between CorelDRAW and the plotter.
from Ecut author:
"Hi Jeff, actually I do not understand why GCC do not understand ASCII files. PLT - as You know, simple TXT file, and it is very strange that plotter does not get simple chars...eCOM sends bytes (not chars) - and if that plotter does not understand eCOM stream, then I can do nothing with this..."
So it seems that it might work, but I'm still not sure... since he says above that it sends bytes.
Hugh Johnson said:In my case, I am able to use the GCC Jaguar II binary driver that CoCut provides in their long list of plotter drivers.
Jeff: as I mentioned earlier, the GCC "Panther" is a firmware modified Jaguar II. In other words, I do not know what Sign Warehouse people did to modify the firmware. I do know that the USB port on the "Panther" is useless, but works on an unmodified GCC plotter.....
Sometimes, I think about buying a new GCC Jaguar II and selling my older unit. <Sigh!>
Hugh Johnson said:Sometimes, I think about buying a new GCC Jaguar II and selling my older unit.
Don't do it Hugh! Get a Summa.
-John