FJ-540 + GX-24 cutter = contour cut????

[CropMarks]

Hello all, I have a FJ-540 and was thinking about upgrading my vinyl plotter to something that has an optical eye for contour cutting. I don't need a big cutter, a 23" cut area is fine for what I need. I've seen in the past that the Roland GX-24 comes bundled with Roland Cut Studio... I use Roland's ColorRip 2.2 to send to my FJ-540.

All of the videos I've seen on the web show the person printing straight out of Cut Studio to a small office printer - then inserting the sheet into the gx-24.

I'm pretty sure that you can't print straight to my FJ-540 with cut studio, or can you?

Thanks for any help, I appreciate it!

 

[CropMarks]

What about this? Would it be possible to print to a .pdf with the registration marks... and then import that pdf into ColorRip? I might try that when I get into the shop on Monday.

 

[CropMarks]

Well, after doing a lot of homework, I've determined that I am actually going with the Graphtec CE5000-60. It has a plug-in for Illustrator that creates registration marks that stay when I do a "save as pdf". I can take that into roland's colorrip 2.2 and print it out from there. Can't wait to get my new cutter and give it a shot.