Need Help Has anyone tried to contour cut twice on same job?

[carlroger]

Hi guys! New to this forum, so I hope you can help me. I'm trying to do this:

• Print an image and contour cut
• Laminate the print
• Contour cut again, 2 cm outside the whole image

This is for a floor print with floor laminate. The idea behind this is to have a margin or bleed of pure laminate to seal the print around the edges.

What I've tried to do is to place two different cut lines in the image and get the plotter to cut only one - laminate - cut the other. But it won't allow me to do this.

The printer is a Seiko ColorPainter M-64s and the plotter is a Summa S2 160 Class T series. The printer/cutter software is Caldera.

I hope that I've explained myself enough and that you guys can help.

Best regards

Carl

 

[myront]

Yes, but we use Corel with FineCut 8 on a Mimaki plotter.Why not just delete the first cut then cut the next?

 

[Solventinkjet]

You have to use the registration marks to do this so if you are weeding them off , that is the problem. You need to figure out how to keep them on and then you will be able to do what you are wanting to do.

 

[myront]

two cuts on the first go around - 1 actual cut to shape the other a larger contour around. Weed out then laminate. Now a 3 cut line in between the 2 others. Delete the orig two then cut.

 

[burgmurk]

two cuts on the first go around - 1 actual cut to shape the other a larger contour around. Weed out then laminate. Now a 3 cut line in between the 2 others. Delete the orig two then cut.

Exactly how i did it. Biggest hassle was our roll-fed laminator didn't do a very good job and we had to hand apply the laminate. Times like that you wish you had a rolls-roller.

 

[HDvinyl]

You have to use the registration marks to do this so if you are weeding them off , that is the problem. You need to figure out how to keep them on and then you will be able to do what you are wanting to do.

ContourCut around the reg marks.