by Gigi » September 2nd, 2017, 4:49 pm
Ok - I had to move the file way up on the page to get the registration marks to fit within the printing margins. And I also moved the registration marks so they were closer to the images so I could get it all without the print margins (every printer is different.
I will attach the photos I took of what it looked like with the print and cut set up and then the end result. There are a lot of things that are puzzling to me that might be giving the results that are not perfect.
I cannot tell how you constructed the file. Ideally, the printing should be grouped (without seeing circles) and that would be your print layer. Then you would have a cut layer with the outer circle or inner circle, and no color would be attached so it would not be seen on the screen/mat, but it would exist and that would be grouped and become your cut layer. So then there would only be two layers on the right side - not as many as you have. It looks like you grouped each label individually yet there is no option to ungroup. If I break apart your image, I end up with white circles and no other part - the writing disappears, which it shouldn't. If I Edit> Undo break apart, the printing does not return - I just get blotches of color. I honestly have never seen that happen.
I have a lot of questions. Did you create the entire file in SCAL. Was part of it brought in from another program? How?
Two circles show on your design, but only one circle prints (with no editing) - that doesn't make sense to me either.
So I just went back and opened up your folders that show - wow. So you have a print and cut file for each label in addition to a separate circle. Your circle shows the cut line but your cut folder shows nothing. (if I turn off the eye, nothing changes. If I turn off the eye on the circle, the outer circle goes away. I think you have an extra element there that shouldn't be there.
There are often many ways to get the same result, but I am wondering because there is so much information and that it's a large file, that the software is even a bit confused as something is throwing the cuts off - they are not having the same issues so it's not an alignment issue as far as setting up the print and cut with the registration marks.
If I was going to make a label file (and I have) I would make the label size first - the one inch rounds and set them up in columns and rows however you need them. Then I would group them (and not change the color yet because you want to see the circle to line up the text - right?) So you have one file then which would be your cut file (you can go back and select that as your cut file if the software doesn't pick it up when you have the label done. Then create the text in the center of one of the labels the way you want it and populate it into the other circles. When it looks the way you want it to look, close the eye on the circles, select all of the text and group it - that is your print file. If you need that inner circle to print (which I would opt not to if I could) then be sure to create that first before you group the text so that prints.) Then I would select the cut file again (the outer circle(and remove the color.) That would give you a print file and a cut file and would be totally clear without all of the additional folders and sub folders that you have.
You could also take your image file (assuming that it is one large file with the 70 labels as a trace image. Then you would have the circles traced. Check "save image" in the Trace file pop up and close. they will open up on the screen. Select and ungroup. Close the eye on the print file so you just have the circles that would cut. Create a shadow for them (which is the the way you have it cutting now. Then delete the cut image since you dont want it cutting ON the circle, you want it cutting with a border around it. That should line it up perfectly. Make sense? I tried to do it but the png image does not have a close circle even tho it prints that way - so I cant create it the way I want to show you. Hopefully the explanation makes sense.
If you are designing in Illustrator, use the plug in and send to SCAL .directly. Or if you are importing an AI file, be sure to change your preferences in the Edit>Preferences under SVG DPI from Inkscape to Illustrator. That might give better results.
Don't know what else to say at the moment - my brain is tired and I need to get on with some other things! LMK if any of this makes sense.
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