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| Workflow: Trimming Light Transfer Paper w/ A Vinyl Cutter | Workflow: Trimming Light Transfer Paper w/ A Vinyl Cutter Click the link below to view the slideshow: Trimming Light Color Transfer Paper with a Vinyl Cutter
Please feel free to post up your questions and comments. This is a new process that I figured out through experimenting, so I'd be happy to clear up any confusion that there might be. Keep in mind, that to do this you must have a vinyl cutter with an optical eye sensor.
If you are new to this process overall, and don't understand how the vinyl cutter normally works with opaque transfer paper (paper for dark garments), you should watch this video tutorial as well: Trimming Opaque Transfer Paper with a Vinyl Cutter |  Article Tools | | | | | | | | |
August 10th, 2007
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| Re: Workflow: Trimming Light Transfer Paper w/ A Vinyl Cutter Hi Josh, thanks for this slideshow.
Can you outline the steps in words to explain what you're doing on each step? | |
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| Re: Workflow: Trimming Light Transfer Paper w/ A Vinyl Cutter Josh,
thanks for the slideshow. Question: what is the see through or vinyl that you put behind the transfer? what is it for? | |
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November 2nd, 2007
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| Re: Workflow: Trimming Light Transfer Paper w/ A Vinyl Cutter Josh,
Would that be the same material as the Magic Mask that Stahls sells? | |
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November 2nd, 2007
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| Re: Workflow: Trimming Light Transfer Paper w/ A Vinyl Cutter Hi Josh,
Our cutter does have software, but I think we are limited in how we can cut a transfer design. I was interested to see you cut around the feathers. Should all software have this capability? We have a Roland Camm-1 servo. We had done a bowling bowl design for our grandson's birthday and ended up hand cutting around the pins....luckily they were round and not to many curves... I would be interested in your thoughts.
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| Re: Workflow: Trimming Light Transfer Paper w/ A Vinyl Cutter Hi Josh,
This post is incredibly helpful. Thank you.
I just saw the Great Garment Graphics seminar in Rochester, NY. The Roland GX-24 Vinyl Cutter
was very impressive. I do have four questions I was hoping could be explained.
1. While I understand how you describe what to do for Opaque when considering 'separate pieces to design' (like text), what do you do for the light transfers?
2. I was surprised that the vinyl cutter did not cut the masking material as seen in slide 7 - how was that?
3. Why did we even need the masking tape in the first couple steps? I possibly could visualize solution to my first question if I didn't have it.
4. On all the videos I notice you and Bob use the 'image density filter' - while I suspect work 99% of the time, are there other tools in software that you could be more specific and define your own cut areas?
Thanks so much,
Mike
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| Re: Workflow: Trimming Light Transfer Paper w/ A Vinyl Cutter did you put the masking sheet on top of the inkjet paper or in the back? Did you use over 80gcf force on blade on the gx-24? | |
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