: Older Vinyl Plotter connecting to newer MAC's is it possible?


Bob Humphrey
May 8th, 2012, 12:25 PM
I have a Aviotab Wild TA30 Plotter made by Wild Heerbrugg, it has a 25 pin SCSI connector.
I have two issues here:

1. I am trying to connect this to a newer MAC.
I have two MAC Mini's one has Snow Leopard on it and the other is a Server with Snow
Leopard Server on it.
I also have an older Power MAC G5 with 10.4.11 OS on it.

I need to know if there is any way to connect down to a SCSI 25 pin from these MACs

2. I am looking for software that will work for this plotter.
I am running Adobe Creative Suite 5.5. I would just need software that would be a
Plug-in for Illustrator and have the drivers to run this plotter.

If anyone can help that would be greatly appreciated.

Bob

WCraig
May 8th, 2012, 12:48 PM
I have a Aviotab Wild TA30 Plotter made by Wild Heerbrugg, it has a 25 pin SCSI connector.
I have two issues here:

1. I am trying to connect this to a newer MAC.
I have two MAC Mini's one has Snow Leopard on it and the other is a Server with Snow
Leopard Server on it.
I also have an older Power MAC G5 with 10.4.11 OS on it.

I need to know if there is any way to connect down to a SCSI 25 pin from these MACs

2. I am looking for software that will work for this plotter.
I am running Adobe Creative Suite 5.5. I would just need software that would be a
Plug-in for Illustrator and have the drivers to run this plotter.


I don't know anything about vinyl cutters, but a Google search suggests the interface is RS-232C rather than SCSI:

mucad.com - Wild TA 30 (http://www.mucad.com/cmsmultilanguage/index.php?page=wild-ta-30&hl=en)

Therefore, you'd need a USB to serial adapter. Best to figure out the software you want to use (Sign-cut X2?) and check with them about compatible interfaces.

Plotter list (http://www.sc-x2.com/plotter_list.html)

Craig