Swap out cut files for Summa??

[touch31]

The Summa Cutter is not a machine I'm very familiar with. I am helping a company out doing some contract work. Luckily this problem is not my mistake but I'm trying to figure out a work around.

We have printed about 20 10 ft. banners that will be cut out for vinyl placement. There is a small glitch on every one of them that was supposed to be fixed in Illustrator before being printed. It is way too many to redo. It is an easy fix to take out the glitch. Every banner has the bar code and number already associated and printed on them.

In my mind "theoritically" if we fixed the glitch, resent it to rerip, then changed the number of the new "cut file" to the one on the banner already printed it would associate with this one instead.

Has anybody ever done this? I don't know enough about the program to know if this is possible.

Thank you ahead of time for any answers!!!

 

[Jim Doggett]

Go to http://www.summa.be/pages_en/software.html and download WinPlot. It's free and is a cutting program for Summa cutters -- with a plug-in for Illustrator.

Best,

 

[touch31]

Will this program give us the option of switching them out?

I went to the site and all it says is "cutting program that imports EPS, AI and DXF files: positioning, rotating and scaling possibilities."

 

[Jim Doggett]

Install the plug-in in Illy. It does the export for you, and then opens it in WinPlot. Be sure to have the vector (outline) selected in Illy before using the WinPlot plug-in. Bitmaps, of course, will not cut unless vectorized.

Summa Support will guide you through this. Just tell them the cutter is a Summa.