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pls can someone tell me the importance of having an optical eye on your vinyl cutter?
i saw a cutter for 400 pounds no optical eye and the one wit hptical eye was 900 pounds. why the massive price rane? pls someone help???
can i use a basic cutter to cutt my vinyl?
when i print out images with an inkjet printer onto transfer paper do i still need to cut round the image??
is there something else apart from scissors that i could use for this?
would a vinyl cutter also contour cut??
an info much appreciated xx
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In the Kingdom of the blind.The one eyed man is the king.
Depending on the machine, the optical eye could be there to just sense material size or it could there to sense registration marks for contour cutting. Usually the cheaper quality machines do not have an eye, so there is also a chance that the optic eye machine is of better overall quality. Hard to say without machine specifics.
contour cutting is cutting around an image that you have printed to nothing but the image is applied to the garment.
An optic eye...like on the Roland GX24 will allow you to use this to have the cutter do the contour cutting instead of using scissors or exacto knife. You do have to use specific paper designed for this OR use a carrier sheet under the transfer sheet as the cutter is designed to cut through just one layer of two..
You can use most any cutter to cut vinyl. If you do not intend to do contour cutting you do not need the optic eye registration system
contour cutting is cutting around an image that you have printed to nothing but the image is applied to the garment.
An optic eye...like on the Roland GX24 will allow you to use this to have the cutter do the contour cutting instead of using scissors or exacto knife. You do have to use specific paper designed for this OR use a carrier sheet under the transfer sheet as the cutter is designed to cut through just one layer of two..
You can use most any cutter to cut vinyl. If you do not intend to do contour cutting you do not need the optic eye registration system
On a plain vinyl cutter that does not have the eye for reading registration marks, (contour cutting) I would however get a machine with a eye to measure material, it just makes things a no brainer easy!
Optical Eye? Why?? 
