Within a couple of Months he had pretty much put the rest of the Sign Shops that were doing wide-format printing out of business. Shortly after I purchased my Wide format Printer, a friend that has an established sign shop in a neighboring town purchased a very large, very expensive ($70,000) Flat Bed Wide Format Printer. When I started my sign shop, I just had to have a Wide format Printer. I think my biggest problem is that I have no clue where my market will be here. The corporate Awards and commercial signage are two of the things I am most interested in.Īs I mentioned earlier, I had pretty much decided to buy a Laser Engraver, but now I am confused again. Your comments have been very helpful to me. I think you'll need the number on the dongle. But I will surely phone them once I get the machine back. According to the owner of the engraver (the gunsmith) they told him the same thing. I'll phone them back with all the information and maybe they will be a little more co-operative. I didn't have the serial number of the machine available at that time and they told me it would cost $4,500.00 for their best program with dongle and $1,500.00 for their text only program with dongle. When I phoned Gravocare they didn't tell me that. You still have to have a functioning dongle. I should have qualified that statement by saying you get it from Gravograph/New Hermes, and that you have to be a registered licensee of the program. It has also worked on Windows Millennium in the past.įor $10, you can get a CD with the most current version of Gravostyle 98. It's not their newest version of the Gravostyle family of software, just the latest for G98. It's comforting knowing there are so many wonderful and helpful folks here.įor $10, you can get a CD with the most current version of Gravostyle 98. I would like to thank yourself, Vickie from Anderi Engraving, Sprinter, and Dave Jones from Dave Jones Design for your generous and helpful replies. I'm gonna ask the owner of the Engraving machine if I can have it back again for a couple of weeks so I can look into getting the software working again. The engraver originally came with the Gravostyle98 software and the original computer came with Windows 98se. (The Gunsmith) and they are closed today so I can't reach them. I took the machine back to the owner last week. As for the dongle and the software both being set to the same port, this I don't know. Since the machine is an IS400 it likely has Gravostyle 98 software, which is a Windows-based program. Had this happen on one of my older cutter programs when I went from windows 3.1 to windows 98 and had to take the file off the windows 3.1 machine before the program would execute. Is the original machine still available to look at the setup on it? You might be missing a file that has gone bad on the software or not loading for some reason. (The dongle will work but the software will not if they are not the same.) Is the software a DOS program? (The dongle will show but the software will only start up in DOS if it is a DOS program, thats how mine works for the older program I have.)ĭo you have both the dongle and the software set to the same port? Hopefully somebody here with experience in using that system will recognize your symptoms and be able to help. Just with dongles in general for other types of software. I have no experience with that engraver or software. The computer that the software was installed in was the original computer that came with the engraver so I didn't give it much thought.ĭo you have any idea why the computer would recognize the dongle but would not launch the program?įorgot to list in my last post. I didn't think about changing the port in the bios. I also installed the software into another computer with the same results. I have un-installed the software and re-installed it. With the dongle plugged into the parallel port I get a screen come up that has the owners name, the serial number, etc. If I un-plug the dongle from the computer I immediately get a "Dongle Not Present" message when I try to open the software. Full Version: Az Newbie Should I buy Roland EGX-300?
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