Harry Seward

I'd like to be able to use this plotter on Win10. I really don't care if it shows up in Printers & Scanners, but the fact that it's not indicates Win10 is not recognizing the drivers.

Yes, all of them. I have used this plotter for nearly 20 years on an older windows machine. On the Win10 machine, I get as far as E1. The "new hardware found" notification comes up and then disappears after a few seconds, but it never shows Graphtec CE5000.

Thanks, Paul. I remembered that from the first time I ever used the plotter (and other devices over the years), so I made sure to not connect it until after the drivers had been installed.

The furthest back compatibility mode goes in Win10 is to Win 7. I tried that and it didn't help. Compatibility mode has never really worked all that great. It's not at all like running the native OS. USB Printer Support does indeed show up in device manager when the plotter is connected and powered on, but that merely shows that a USB printing device is detected by Windows - that's why it appears and disappears. But that's not the specific driver for the device. USB Printer Support shows up there with any printer, even before the correct driver is installed. If you aren't running any plotters in Win10, this question isn't for you.

I had this plotter set up on an XP->Win7 machine with an old version of Illustrator using Cutting Master for nearly 20 years. I've got a decent handle on how everything works in that realm. I know the plotter isn't a printer, but when it's properly installed, it shows up in the Printers & Scanners section of Windows. The plotter is already in GP-GL, as is required for it to have been working with CM. Everything is different on Win10, and I don't want to spend the money to purchase a new version of Illustrator for this one purpose when Graphtec has a standalone solution. The plotter manual was written long before Win10 was even a concept, and in fact says nothing about installing drivers anyway. The software crashes when I go through the plotter selection process described in the software manual. I'm not asking you to do anything you haven't "volunteered" to do. I still have the option to go old school with another computer, but I wanted to try to find someone that's gotten this plotter working under Win10 with Graphtec Studio, and pick their brain. Anyone else?

Greetings. I cannot get Win10 to display my CE5000 in Printers & Scanners. I installed the latest driver from Graphtec website. I then pluged the plotter in and Windows makes the sound that it detects the hardware, but that's as far as I get. I tried a restart and still no go. I also tried a manual install of the drivers, and that also didn't work. I intend to use Graphtec Studio 2 for cutting, but naturally it's not working since there's no plotter installed. What's the secret sauce? Edit: I installed Cutting Plotter Controller. The functions in there seem to communicate with the CE5000 and does what the respective controls indicate so there is some sort of connection. Just not as a 'printer'. Edit 2: It seems no one has been able to successfully get this plotter running on Win10 so I have just set it up on a platform I have had success with, which is Cutting Master 2 in Illustrator CS 4 on a Win7 machine, and it's working great.