Thread: Bad buy!!

guess i made a bad buy,,bought a desk/plotter from a guy here in sweden
he had no time for airbrush anymore his working as an tatto artist now,,
i haven't used vinylcutters or know that much about them,,so i asked if he had drivers and such to it ,, you need to download coreldraw,,,
okay that can't be to hard i thought,,,,and i needed a licens number to get it to work
i will email it to you with some more info he said,,,,so i gave him the money
and drove home 3,5hours drive,,,downloaded a trial of coreldraw x3
thought i could try it out....
got the e-mail with a licensnumber,,,, register the licens and then download
coreldraw and start cutting,,,it said....have no clue what licens that is
and where to add it,,,
on the CD i got it said use Signcutx2 there was no programs on the CD so now i need 2 programs
signcut x2 and coreldraw
e-maild the guy but no reply,,i think i will wait untill my vacation is over and talk to some co workers some of them know guys who
have copies of allkind of programs and stuff,,,i know it's illegal but what to do
they are quite expensive here..maybe should have looked that up first

there wasn't that much money involved few $100(in US,currency)
the machine is working,pushed some buttons and it cutout a test vinyl.but without programs is kind of useless,,

If you haven't yet, google the make and model number of the machine. The manufacture may provide a program for download. I don't know much about these but I have seen this program posted on some forums as a free vectoring program. Inkscape. Draw Freely.
I believe there is going to be a learning curve on creating the vectors and from what I have read, it can take several hours to vector a picture. Good luck and if you want, email me the info on the plotter, I will see what I can find some info if you don't have time to google the day away.