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Advice welcomed please?
I have been using signcut pro for a while doing vinyl wall art and some signs, I also have a large format printer that prints on adhesive vinyl both gloss and matt, Is there a way to print on the large format printer, then feed the same file through signcut pro? Just curious if it is possible. So basically design and make my own stickers from start to finish.
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I dont know anything about your brand of cutter and you haven’t mentioned the type of cutter you have, but…
The printer needs to print registration / detection marks.
The cutter needs to have an opus type detection setup on it to be able to read the marks.Take the print out the printer, put into cutter. set the cutter to detect the registration marks and it will then proceed to contour cut the graphic.
First find out if your cutter has the ability to do this.
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There was a company we used to do bits for where they would print and cut, but without the optical eye Rob talks about.
We’ve resorted to doing similar in the past, and it’s far from accurate and usually ends in a reprint anyway.
In simple terms, draw a box around the printed graphic, and mark the bottom Right corner of the box with a dot or other mark you can align the blade to, position the blade over the dot, set the origin, and then position your cut job in the bottom right, send it to cut, keeping the box you’ve drawn around the artwork there to be cut too.
It’s never going to be as accurate registration marks, and won’t account for twisted media, but it can be done, but I’ve a suspicion you’ll end up wasting more than you use.
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If memory serves me correctly, a member posted a way of doing this in the tutorial section of the site. if you don’t have an opus system on your cutter.
Using jiggery pocery and a bit of trial and error. 🙂
I have a feeling it was John Thompson but could be wrong.
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