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Old August 9th, 2007 -   #1 (permalink)
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Default Contour Cutting Heat Transfers?

I'm a little confused on something, and maybe someone can help me out.

When you go to contour cut heat transfer papers, do you need some sort of backer for the paper or do you lighten your downforce to cut only through the transfer itself and not through its own backer?

It would seem to me that it would be easier to apply another backer since the paper itself is so thin.

Another question...how would I go about contour cutting a design that I did in Photoshop?

Would I make the design in photoshop, save it as a bitmap, bring it into CorelDRAW, add registration marks and cutting shapes, then print it?

I'm a little confused by the whole process.

I admit, I could do most of my cutting with scissors or an exacto as most of my designs are within a square, but I might like to do fancy shapes with them at some point. That, and I'd like to play with our new toy.