Contour Cutting using Wasatch SoftRIP - DG Tech

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You cutter has now been configured, next up we need to configure the printer you are using to print out the OPOS markers along with your job. Configuring your printer for OPOS Go to the setup screen of the printer you want to configure. Do this by first selecting the printer and then select “Setup” from the “Print” pull-down menu. You will be transported to the same screen as you had when installing a printer/cutter. Here make sure that the “Process Cutting Paths” has been selected in the “Cutting Options”. When enabling “Cutting Registration Marks” you will get a drop down menu asking which cutting mark needs to be printed, select SummaSign Pro here (when selecting a different device, different optical registration marks will be printed making it impossible to perform OPOS on your job). When you have selected which cutting registration mark you want to use, the program will prompt you to enter the interval to be used for these marks. 09/12/08 4
!! NOTE !! This feature only works with layouts and with the print spooler, never with immediate print of a single page. Otherwise the program will only put markers at the extents of the job. This interval sets the maximum distance between the first and second marker along the X-axis. Once the job surpasses this, the RIP will add one more marker. The default setting is 24 or 24 inch (600 mm), for a higher accuracy I suggest to put this value at 10 (10 inch or 254 mm). The lower the value the more registration marks are printed, the higher the accuracy. However the more markers you add, the longer it will take to read them all. You system has now been configured for Contour Cutting. Creating a contour cutting file The first step in the Contour Cut process is to prepare your file for contour cutting. To prepare your file, first you must define the cut path in a vector-based drawing program such as Adobe Illustrator or CorelDraw. The cut path may be as simple or complex, as you desire – it can range from a circle around a bitmap image or an outline of script text. Once you create the cut path, you must assign a spot colour to it. This spot colour (specifically the name, not the colour) is the most important part of preparing the file as it allows the cutter software to determine where the cutter should cut the image. The name you assign to this spot colour must have a unique name, which matches the name assigned in the RIP. There are 2 names possible for the cut path spot colour: CutContour, CutPath (this is case sensitive). When the RIP processes and prints the file, the path with this named spot colour will not be printed with the rest of the image. The RIP processes the spot colour as a cut path and creates a separate cut script file for your cutting device. Contour Cutting Workflow First of all we need to create a contour cutting job file. In CorelDraw, create your object followed by an outline with the specific Spot color (in the example we will use CutContour). 09/12/08 5
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