KNK Zing Air Driver? Link is Dead [Resolved]

msutiny

Hello, we are totally new to the Vinyl Cutter world and just bought a used Zing Air.  The only problem we have is that the driver download link is broken.

Does anyone know of a working link or does anyone perhaps have a copy of the driver that they could share?

Thanks!!!

Crazy_Mr_Zing

Appears to be working for me ?
If your using a PC at work perhaps you network controls are blocking the exe file

https://www.make-the-cut.com/Download.aspx

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here is a direct links

http://s3.amazonaws.com/makethecut/MTCPlugins/ZingInstall.exe

Liz_A

@msutiny - you will also need the FTDI driver found here: https://www.ftdichip.com/Drivers/D2XX.htm

SandyMcC

In Liz's post, you'll want to scroll down to the table and then, if you're on a PC, look for Setup Executable in the Comments section. That's the fastest and easiest way to install.  Also, here is my support page for the Zing Air: https://www.iloveknk.com/support/zing/

Also, where did you find the dead link? I'll need to report that (or fix it myself, as the case may be.  :P) 

Liz_A

So to sum up what you need to do:

Using MTC?
- Install from http://make-the-cut.com/Download.aspx
- Install the KNK plugin from here: http://make-the-cut.com/Download.aspx as well
- Install the FTDI driver from above link, as described by Sandy
- reboot the computer
- plug in the cutter
- open MTC
- place  a basic shape on the virtual mat
- cut shape

There will be more details in the User Manual found at the link above shared by Sandy.

If using SCAL - please advise.

msutiny

When I click the link that is supposed to go to the driver file I get the following errors. I've tried Internet Explorer, Fire Fox and Google Chrome all with the same result. 

Are you all able to click it and download the file?

msutiny

Trying to attach the screen shots but for some reason it doesn't look like they are showing up. 

Internet Explorer says:  "This Page Can't Be Displayed, make sure the web address http://s3.amazonaws.com is correct".

FireFox says: "Unable to Connect, FireFox can't establish as connection to the server s3.amazonaws.com"

leslie6111

I doubt very much that you broke your cutter. You'll need your own liscence of MTC or SCAL 4 or 5 though.  Try downloading and then saving the executable  file to your computer first before launching it by  clicking. http://s3.amazonaws.com/makethecut/MTCPlugins/ZingInstall.exe  (from crazy Mr. Zing) and then the drivers  https://www.ftdichip.com/Drivers/D2XX.htm (from Liz) or inside the MTC program itself under help.

Crazy_Mr_Zing

Maybe its your anti virus blocking it because it and exe file ?

Liz_A

Sounds like Crazy Mr Zing may have a good thing to check on, but also it could be your computer. Have you restarted it lately?

msutiny

Thanks Everyone for the help with this!  I did disable both the Virus Program and Firewall with the same issue that the pages would not load.  However, Crazy_Mr_Zing - your cloud upload did work!  Thank you so much for that!

Over the next few days we are going to start reading and learning before we even think about firing it up to make sure we don't break something!

Thank you all again for your help!  We truly do appreciate it!

Have a great night!!!!!