please help

[racershawn]

I just finished building a new 64 bit system and i am installing everything ... I thought I had all my bases covered till i got to my plotter ... i have a Vinyl Express Q100 .... I tried to install it and the vista driver that i found says only for 32 bit system .... any ideas??? I seem to b stuck at this point

[Fred Weiss]

Call SignWarehouse tech support and ask if they have one available. Otherwise there is no solution except to hang the plotter on a different computer or go back to 32 bit.

[omgsideburns]

You can operate a SERIAL plotter on 64bit vista using the keyspan USB to Serial adaptor with the 64bit driver from keyspans website and the plotter driver in whatever software you're using.

edit: oh yeah, it's cheaper from newegg than it is from SW.. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812999081&Tpk=keyspan%20serial

[racershawn]

it is a usb ploter

[DRamm76]

Unfortunately, alot of dealers are dealing with this issue as manfacturer's have not released updated drivers. I hate to sound like the typical sales rep here, but one solution that seems to be the easiest way around it is to buy Flexi. They are fully 64 bit compatible

[racershawn]

i have flexi 8.5 ..... dont i need the driver to run the ploter???

[omgsideburns]

Ahh.. it's that rebranded graphtec. It has a serial port, and they are hpgl printers so you can always use a generic and the serial.

According to graphtec they 64 bit drivers will be available this summer some time.

http://www.graphtecamerica.com/support.html



In production manager when you install the printer it installs using the flexi drivers. If there is a driver it's in there somewhere..

[racershawn]

thanks for the info .......