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  1. 02-13-2018, 7:45 PM #1
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    Laser upgrade questions

    I have a laser I bought in 2011 it is a re-badged redsail with a Ruida controller. The control panel buttons are working intermittently and I am having to run to the pc to start it every part. It is an old controller. I plan to upgrade the controller and software. I currently use Corel X4 to design on and have to run it through a virtual machine on my Windows 10 machine. Kind of a pain as X4 won't run on Windows 10. I plan to switch to Illustrator for design work as that will allow me to run in Windows 10.
    My questions are,
    1. What would be a good controller to replace this with?
    2. Can all my files saved as X4 be opened in a new version of illustrator without any problems? I would do the discount upgrade of corel but that would leave me on the virtual machine running Windows 7.

    Thanks in advance for any help.
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    X7 and above work fine on win 10 machines. Id probably just upgrade to new ruida controller. 6442xg model I think is the newest std model. But depending on the model, the display/keyboards are available. And the software is usually backwards compatible at least a good ways back. The FB group for rdworks was doing group buy on keyboards.....
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    Where would one order a new ruida controller? I just googled and amazon was the only one I found and it is unavailable.
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    Will look into those. Thanks all.
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