Cut it out! episode 1

Meet Pete and John and learn what to expect from the new Cut-it-out! vlog

[@LDBecker]

Since you invited requests for topics... I'm an amateur photographer and pastor, long-time user of ImagePrint, and often do special event photography for my church and its school - and I was "gobsmacked" when I first saw demos of CutItOut and ImagePrint. I had spent so many late nights cutting out photos... I hated doing photos for people because of that. With my Graphtec CE7000-60, I have done several photo events and am now really enjoy it. It brought back a lot of the fun of photography for me. I am intrigued with the concept of printing and cutting stickers, and am making progress. The stickers "kiss-cut" ok, but how do you also cut out the stickers - say in a square around the sticker? Can you do both kiss-cut and perf cut in the same job? Looking forward to this series!

[@imageprintbycolorbytesoftw7878]

This is quite easy. I'm going to assume that you are contouring the graphic in the ImagePrint contour controls menu. At the bottom of that menu there is a Contour Cut Control menu that is grayed out. Turn it on by selecting the box. You will now set the hangar size to 0 (kiss cut) and set the force to about half of the force you set the cutter at to cut through the media. You don't need to set the spacing as it's a kiss cut. You will set the force and the knife on the cutter to cut through the media. You will set the Cut it out controls in the dashboard to perf cut. So hangar size of 3 and normal hangar spacing. On the right side of the menu turn on Cut both boundaries and contours. Now you will kiss cut the sticker and perf cut it boundary.

[@LDBecker]

@@imageprintbycolorbytesoftw7878 I assumed it had to be possible, and was likely simple to do. I'll try it tomorrow when I get to work. Thanks again!

[@imageprintbycolorbytesoftw7878]

@@LDBecker Let me know. We will certainly cover this in an episode.