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Gerber and Process Foils – Printing an Image?
It’s taken a while to get all the bits together for the Gerber FX and today I received a set of process CMYK foils.
I can’t confess to have mastered the art of spot colour printing and cutting but when you’ve done it a few times,you begin to understand.
Process foils are a different kettle of fish and I need to get my head around the basics. I’m using Omega 2.6.
Just for starters, lets say I want to print the attached picture to white vinyl. The file is in .jpg format.
Can someone who knows the process give me the stages involved? I’ve had my head buried in the manuals most of the evening but it’s always easier to ask!
Cheers
John
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8 Replies
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Hi there,
I have a Gerber Edge and not done any process colour printing yet, so I too am very interested to see the advice you get here 🙂
Good luck !
Saph
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C’mon guys it’s easy, just select the image you want to print, the image fill tool becomes highlighted, click on this, choose process and way to go, job done, you may wish to experiment with profiles but thats half the fun.
Good luck you’ll be amazed by the quality.
Regards
Jason
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Hi Jason, nice avatar 🙂
I had done as you suggested but surely it’s not that easy 🙂 I was looking for something more difficult 🙂 A case of not seeing the woods for the trees!
We were due to go to Spandex in Bristol last Thursday for training but the lady that does the training had to cancel Thursday morning, so it didn’t happen.
We purchased some textile vinyl for the Gerber so it’ll be interesting to see how it turns out.
Cheers
John
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Hi John, yep works for me, there is also a fantastic image path tool as well which we use quite a bit.
ATB
Jason
Thanks for the avatar comment
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Hi John,
Those fades are probably going to give you problems, the edge will probably want to lay them down in steps, this means that you will probably have to have a trade off with the resolution, its been a while since I have used Omega but you will have to play with the lpi. I think 120 was the max but you might need to go down as low as 60. Bit of experimentation. If you need to cut the image you will have to draw a seperate box to use as the cutline.
Hope this helps
Mart. -
it has been a while since i used it but do you not just put reg marks and use a contour cut (?)
Lynn
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hey john, re the print. you’ll have problems with the fade for sure. the edge always wants to step and it can also turn out alittle blocky and u’ll probably have to do afew trail runs with the lpi to see what suites the job best. if you click on the image, go into the image fill icon on the left hand side click the halftone button and use the gerbertone stc photo and put the resolution upto max. i would recommend putting the lpi at around 70, maybe 60.make sure at the top its on process colours too. as for the cut line, just go and use a standard box and lay it down over the area u want to cut, make sure you have it on none for the fill type. its pretty straight forward. hope this helps!
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Thanks all,
Great help along the long path of learning!
The image included in the post was just picked at random but I guess I’ll encounter the issues raised with any imported image. I’ll let you know how things work out just for interest of other learning 🙂
Cheers
John
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