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#Using signcut pro and cant get my plotter to cut registration
#Using signcut pro and cant get my plotter to cut trial
#Using signcut pro and cant get my plotter to cut mac

#Using signcut pro and cant get my plotter to cut registration

I need to mesh it in with the optical registration marks that get created in Signcut. I can put a kiss cut line in on separate layer or on the same layer as a "named" spot colour, happy to do what ever works. I want to kiss cutĪ di line on my Mutoh vc 1300.

I print a lot of labels on my Xerox production press (not vinyl) just standard self adhesive.

#Using signcut pro and cant get my plotter to cut trial

I have just got a trial version at the moment and want to make sure it will do what I want before I purchase.

Hoping some one can save me a lot of time working out the best way to attack this. From here, you will need to set the pressure.Hi there. Fasten the blade position so that the tip of the blade is slightly penetrating the top surface of the vinyl backing. Some machines have a button control that will allow you to automatically push the carriage to the blade down position while for other carriages you will need to push down on the blade holder manually.Place the blade holder in the down position. A good way to set blade tip height is to peel off the vinyl and expose the vinyl backing.These parameters vary in importance between machine manufacturers. One is blade depth relative to the carriage and the other is pressure set by the cutter. There are basically two parameters that need to be set to achieve good cutting. Setting up blade depth and pressure or force is critical to getting good cuts.60° blades are sharper and are widely used. 45° blades strike a good balance between wear and sharpness. The larger the blade angle, the sharper the blade, but the quicker the blade will dull. Blades usually come in angles from 20° to 60° or so. Most of the issues associated with vinyl cutting are related to vector art quality. In the end, a simple black, yellow and blue image ended up being 25 different colors and had edges on 25 different layers. It turns out that Flexi interpreted the yellow as 8 shades of yellow and created edges between the different shades of yellow and separated these edges onto different layers. Your vinyl cutter can cut lines, arcs and circles but cannot cut a pixel so all artwork must be converted to vector art so your vinyl cutter can cut it properly. Vector art format differs from bitmap or JPEG art format in that vector art contains lines and arcs to define the picture whereas bitmaps and their equivalents are just a pattern of pixels without any edge definition. If you take a photograph and bring it into a cutting program like Flexi Starter 10 and automatically convert it into vector art you will likely have a mess to clean up.

Creating clean VCRVA is even more time consuming because adequate thought has to go into figuring out what portions of your design you are going to keep and what portions you are going to remove or 'weed' away.

Usually, when people want to vinyl cut an image, creating clean vector art is the most time consuming process but yet it is the most important. Alternatively, you can draw shapes and prepare vector art specifically for vinyl cutting with a graphics program like InkScape, Corel Draw or Adobe Illustrator.

#Using signcut pro and cant get my plotter to cut mac

All text on all the Windows or Mac included fonts can be typed directly into a vinyl cutting program. All keyboard fonts are considered vinyl cutter ready vector art (VCRVA or VCVA).

Simple artwork like text is the easiest artwork to cut with a vinyl cutter.