Setting a colour to CutContour in X3

[Karl Williams]

I don’t use your rip mate. But what I do in the Onyx rip is enable the software to cutcontour. The path you send with your image has to be a light green. When CutContour’s enabled in the rip it recognises the green path as a not printable image, so sends this to the Cut server ready for decal cutting.
Hope this makes sense?

[Carl Maguire]

quote Gary Birch:

Hi all
I have been trying to set a colour in my pallette to CutContour and while I can rename the colour, when I export as a eps instead of getting the marching ants in Versaworks i just get a solid line of my chosen colour. What am I doing wrong?

A step by step guide would be a great help if anyone has the time.

Thanks in advance

Gary

Have you made sure that the line width is a Hairline as well as CutContour we use X3 all the time and Versaworks so if that doesnt work ill try to give you a more detailed option if neccessary

[Chris Wool]

gary i don’y know VW but its the colour name that has to be correct not the colour.

in rolands colourrip you make a new colour from the chart in corel then give it the cutpath name (CutContour) i think for VW

chris

[Gary Birch]

Thanks for you help guys. I have done this before and cannot for the life of me remember just how.

I have made sure I have named the colour CutContour as previously done and in fact the same as I have it on the pc which is set up to create cut contours for Versaworks. I am thinking outloud here but can I save that palette and then open it on the other pcs?

I am pretty sure that I have seen detailed instructions on here before but after numerous searches cannot for the life of me find it.

Thanks for the help so far with this.

Cheers

Gary

[Craig Newton]

same as chris i run colorip and colour has to be called ‘cutpath’ but also make sure in vw in print setup you have the ‘process cut path’ box checked, good luck, craig

[Carl Maguire]

quote Gary Birch:

Hi all
I have been trying to set a colour in my pallette to CutContour and while I can rename the colour, when I export as a eps instead of getting the marching ants in Versaworks i just get a solid line of my chosen colour. What am I doing wrong?

A step by step guide would be a great help if anyone has the time.

Thanks in advance

Gary

Try thisfor a step by step Guide –

http://www.rolanddg.co.za/bobnotes/HowT … ontour.pdf

[Gary Birch]

Cheers Carl its sorted!!

I already had one pc which was set up to create them but just wanted to have the ability to do so with the rest.

Thanks again

Gary