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Revision as of 18:01, 17 July 2012

TechInc Inventory
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Description Vinyl Cutting Plotter
Make Wild
Model TA-10
Operational Status Functional
Super Users User:Justa
Received at
Acquisition Details
Owner TechInc

Wild TA-10 Vinyl Cutting Plotter

Status

We need to repair some smaller kinks and figure out how to talk to it.

Specifications

Manual

Plans

Once we figured out how to work it,

Protocol

- Calcomp is mentioned as the protocol used. Unfortunately, usable information and especially software is scarce.

There is some CalComp documentation available on http://bitsavers.org/pdf/calcomp

But it's unclear how that matches with the serial interface of this plotter, and if it applies to it at all. The best thing is probably to find a program that can actually talk to the plotter and sniff the serial port.

Resources

Software that lists these plotters explicitly as supported:

- SignTools 4 - an add-on for CorelDraw, Demo Version available

- Some references (eBay auctions et al) list HPGL (overview) as a way to talk to it. But often together with some interface box so this might not work for ours.