Versaworks reading outside of bleed as cut instead of cutcontour stroke.

[escortle]

I have a "live traced" art supplied by customer. I set the CutContour spot color as the stroke to be cut. Then I duplicated the art and changed the stroke to the fill color & increased to size to create bleed. It looks good in Illuistrator, but when I bring it into Versaworks. It reads the outside of my bleed as the cut line & NOT the CutContour stroke that I need. Any ideas.

I've tried outlining the stroke of the bleed, to no avail. Please let me know if you guys have had the same issue. ThanksAgain

 

[tanneji]

put up a photo of the file with the cut line ... it will help us to know whats wrong ... usually though with illustrator live trace it creates a box out of the white spacearound a traced image ..so delete that and it should be ok ... a pic would be good though

 

[escortle]

There was no box leftover from livetrace, so that's not it. Here a pic. Any help would be great. Thanks

 

[Bigdawg]

I've got a bit waiting on the printer - send me your Illy file and I'll take a look... will PM you my email...

 

[Bigdawg]

Okay - Just ripped your pdf... and it's fine ... cuts within the bleed, so it has to be a setting somewhere in versaworks...

 

[escortle]

I don't see any settings in Versaworks that talk about the cut paths other thatn force & speed. ANy ideas.

 

[tanneji]

Try expanding the red stroke on the number and then cutting. Also, flatten any transparencies you have in the file.

 

[escortle]

It does the same thing. This file is f'd up, and now they want the job today...of course

 

[escortle]

How do I uncheck cut all paths? Also, when I cahnge the mode to cut it sees the marching ants, but it I change i tto print & cut, the ant sgo away. I can't get this thing to print & cut at all. let alone where I want i to. Any Help?

 

[B Snyder]

Does the company you bought the machine from offer training? I bought new from a company about a hour from you in Quakertown. Proveer (formerly Sign Supply USA...formerly Vinyl Sign Supplies) set mine up and taught me quite a bit in about 5 hours. Maybe they can offer you some training?

 

[jfiscus]

it may also have to do with the spot color red, as you have a pot over a spot. flatten transparency on the total redw/bleed, then combine into a solid fill shape, and convert it to cmyk. then try it again.

 

[escortle]

I am familiar with them, but it' something buggy in the file. I've done this a bunch of times before, & just did a test using a typed number, then outlining, & it read my bleed and cutcontour line perfectly.

I guess I jusr have to find a workaround for this job.

Thanks All