Bleeding hell!!

[Peter Normington]

Steve not sure what you mean, you cant be printing to the edge of the paper anyway, and you will need to trim? I have limited experiece with wallpaper, but would it not be better to have a small overlap in the print, put the two pieces together and then trim both for a perfect join?
Would it not be easier to create in the rip as well?

A bleed would be the same thing?

Peter

Peter

[Chris Wool]

last time i did that i told the rip to panel it with 1mm overlaps then trimmed it to the edge ish. i used to split it up first till i learned to trust the rip

chris

[Steve Bird11]

Thanks Chris will try that on something smaller before i do that i think.

Pete, yes i’ll have to trim the edges first but was thinking it would have to be trimmed to perfection or risk losing a bit more of the print. I’ve seen an interior designer put a new piece of wallpaper between two old pieces and trimmed the joins whilst still wet on the wall…result was excellent, what are you thoughts about doing it that way?
If overlapping is the way forward then so be it…I just thought an overlap on wallpaper would stand out like a sore thumb.
Cheers

[Chris Wool]

quote :

yes i’ll have to trim the edges first but was thinking it would have to be trimmed to perfection or risk losing a bit more of the print.

thats why the overlap was only 1mm easy to cut to,
when trimming

spray some photo mount on to the cutting bench so the paper does not move whilst trimming. glass top is a god send for this.

chris

[Steve Bird11]

thanks Chris, just tried it on something small. Perfect….will be easier that way than when on the wall i think.

Cheers mate.

Steve

[Peter Edwards]

Hi Chaps,

I’m up to something similar here but I’m new to the world of finishing/printing. How would I go about trimming the edges of a 6m length of digitally printed wallpaper?

I’m assuming I can’t trim it on my SP-300v as theres no carrier?

If not can something point me in the right direction for something that will help cut it and give a nice straight line so somebody with skill can hang it 🙂

Cheers Pete

[Chris Wool]

peter its called a straight edge and a sharp knife and care in equal amounts of 100%.

the learning curve is rather sharp and unless you are prepared to trash many mts of print leave it for a while

anyway i will now stick a spanner in the works.
with the introduction of the extra trim half cut pounce call what you will in versa 3 any body want to risk it. i do cut paper patterns on my graphtec this way so could work

chris

[Peter Edwards]

Cheers Chris, If thats the way to do it then yes I’ll steer clear as I wouldn’t want to give anybody rubbish work as these chaps are interior designers so their customer won’t be happy etc.

I’m having a thick day and don’t understand your last sentance??! Are you saying that in theory I could still trim the paper in my SP-300v?

Thanks for your time by the way, you are thankfully following me around on various calls for help 🙂 🙂

[Chris Wool]

there is a new to versa works facility call perfcut which will do a perforated cut along a defined path.
the thing to remember with these machines is imagination, think of what you want to achieve then work backwards to work out how to do it.

chris

[Peter Edwards]

Thanks again Chris, just been reading up on it, seems like an interesting feature :). Sorry again for my ignorance but why would that be better then using a normal contour cut if I was going to do it that way?

An yes, I’m starting to see that ‘outside the box’ is the way to be 😉