IS200 UNICA

[Web_Engraver]

Hi, I recently aquired a 1996 IS200 Unica & laptop loaded with software. Having trouble with sending jobs to machine. Has anyone a link to an instruction manual? Also does the inline dongle plug into the machine or printer port? Thought it would be same as my 2010 IS200!!  Thank for reading, Phil

[petercoulson]

is it an IS200 or a Unica? A unica shouldn't have a dongle from what I remember it runs off it's own program. If it's run from a laptop it's probably an early IS200 but very early, the dongle that came with them was a parallel port one I think ands went onto the laptop with the machine plugged into that

[Web_Engraver]

[Web_Engraver]

Thanks for that, 2 photos of the machine. Phil 

[petercoulson]

Hmm that's a newer type panel so it is probably one of the early Unica machines that was converted to IS200 which they did a fair bit in those days so it should be a parallel port dongle unless a lot newer and a usb one from memory they were a little tricky to set up if it was the laptop that came with it though it should just work?

[petercoulson]

[Web_Engraver]

23 minutes ago, petercoulson said:

Hmm that's a newer type panel so it is probably one of the early Unica machines that was converted to IS200 which they did a fair bit in those days so it should be a parallel port dongle unless a lot newer and a usb one from memory they were a little tricky to set up if it was the laptop that came with it though it should just work?

Original laptop corrupted. And Someone pulled the the program of it and put it on this other laptop !!  Phil 

[petercoulson]

1 minute ago, Web_Engraver said:

Original laptop corrupted. And Someone pulled the the program of it and put it on this other laptop !!  Phil 

Ah that may be an issue, a very big one the original programs relied on DOS (again from memory) I'm afraid someone more in touch will have to say a good bet is to contact @Marino