Hello all.
I have a conundrum that has my head in a whirl and I hope I will be able to explain it clearly!
I have a sublimation printer, and want to sub print on to vinyl, then cut it out with my Silver Bullet using SCAL as the cutting software. (Currently SCAL 4)
My problem is, the method of sub printing on to sub vinyl is that you print a mirror image, then put the paper face down on to the vinyl and press it to transfer, so that it is then the right way round. However, I will need to print via a program other than SCAL, since, as far as I know, SCAL doesn't support custom ICC colour management profiles, and even if it did, as there are only registration marks in 3 corners, they wouldn't be in the correct 3 corner!
Therefore, I need to manually add registrtion marks to my print out so that I can upload to SCAL (not mirrored) to cut the vinyl after it's printed. I use a variety of software to make my designs - including GIMP, Affinity Designer, and Inkscape. I got all excited when I found the Craft Edge Tutorial "Import Artwork with Registration Marks" here https://www.craftedge.com/tutorials/import_regmarks/import_regmarks.php, but that is for Illustrator, and naming layers in any of the programs I am using doesn't seem to work (layer names never carry over to SCAL on anything I do, and the rectangle certanly isn't being recognised and converted in to registration marks.... it's remains just a rectangle!).
Does anyone know if what I want to do is possible, or if there ary 'cheats' or ways round this?
Sorry for the long, rambling post, and thanks for reading!