by Angel135612 » July 24th, 2011, 9:22 am
Well, I was able to get back to this last night after dinner... and my offset numbers were WAY off... no wonder it wanted to travel so far before cutting. I have no idea how they got to be so far off, but even when I put them back to what they were the last time I calibrated it, it was off. I have no idea what happened.
Anyway, I am spot on and will try to cut out my project again sometime today.
I do have a few questions though.
Would changing back and forth between MM and inches in Signcut make your offset numbers get out of whack? I use mm to set my offset numbers, but want to look at inches when I see how much media my design will use when cutting.
I read on Dawns forum, that if you move the registration marks, you should do it in pairs. (Select the top two move them together, select the left two, etc) Is this so that they are all even with each other? Can't you just move them in the general area you want, then select two and align the centers, going all around pairing them up and aligning them?
Do the registration marks have to be a certain size? (I think I may have changed the size of them the first time I tried to calibrate my cutter, to get them on a Letter size sheet of paper, not knowing about the ungrouping and moving two at a time thing, so when I changed the size of the "design" it did make the marks smaller.
Can you put the marks closer to your design? It seems a waste of paper, to put them in the corners, print out one design, and cut it. Maybe I just need to have more than one PnC design to cut when I do this.
Can you cut out your image, THEN place it on another sheet of paper, then put it through the foil master? Or does it work better to foil first then cut? If my cut doesn't turn out as well as I would like, I don't want to waste the foil by foiling first then cutting, only to have it mess up.
I think that is all for now... hope to spend a good part of today playing with my Foil Master and doing some PnC. I didn't think I would do much PnC, so never really worked on it.. but now that I have the Foil Master, I am going to want to cut around my foiled designs... so will need to practice this a lot more. LOL
Diane in Colorado Springs
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