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Hoping someone can answer a question. I had tried talking to Josh at imprintables but haven't heard anything back yet.
I am very new to the vinyl
I have sublimation, screen printing, dtg and pad printing but vinyl seems to be a problem for me
How do I know if something can be cut out on the cutter, it is vectored but when I take it from corel to cutstudio there are lines I have never seen in the original design.
I am wanting to make some decals but not sure if it can be done or how to proceed.
Post the file and we can take a look at it and see if it is cuttable. Also here is a website that may be more appropiate for answers to this and other "vinyl" type questions. Signforums.com - Home jberte that frequents this forum is an admin over at that site and it is a wonderful site for learning the "vinyl" side.
Another thing, are these lines in the text part of your decal, if so I've seen corel do that if you don't covert text to curves.
Post the file and we can take a look at it and see if it is cuttable. Also here is a website that may be more appropiate for answers to this and other "vinyl" type questions. Signforums.com - Home jberte that frequents this forum is an admin over at that site and it is a wonderful site for learning the "vinyl" side.
Another thing, are these lines in the text part of your decal, if so I've seen corel do that if you don't covert text to curves.
The lines are not in the text.
I will try to figure out how to post the image
i'm not familiar with cut studio - but it looks like i might need to acquire a copy of it open your graphic in corel and look at it in wireframe mode - are there extra cut lines present? if so, you'll need to eliminate them before it will cut properly. if you wish, email it to me (the corel file, please!) and i'll take a look at it for you
Last edited by jberte; May 17th, 2007 at 09:38 AM.
i'm not familiar with cut studio - but it looks like i might need to acquire a copy of it open your graphic in corel and look at it in wirefame mode - are there extra cut lines present? if so, you'll need to eliminate them before it will cut properly. if you wish, email it to me (the corel file, please!) and i'll take a look at it for you
I will check it in corel and if needed I will send you a copy
Thanks so much to all of you for the quick replies
Chris, I have been in the vinyl sign industry for over 20 years. I would sugges that you not design in corel draw as the file can get corrupted if you export it. I would stick with a "sign program" for designing and cutting. There are many resonable programs available. I'm not saying that Corel is a bad program, I'm sure for certian applicaitons, but I haven't been too successful in using it for vinyl cutting. Also, you can cut from importing an Adobe Illistrator or Adobe eps vector file. You may need to screen the artwork for smooth curves and such. Adobe files are usually straight lines and curves in design. At times not connected only touching. Good luck, I think you will do fine and will very much like the vinyl industry.
sorry, i don't mean to be contentious here, but i heartily disagree! i've been designing in corel since the last ice age and have been in the sign business for more than 10 yrs and have never had a problem with a correctly executed corel file! i've lived thru all the various incarnations of gerber/composer/omega and flexi - and yet i come back to corel for all design work - files are currently sent to flexi for cutting because i happen to like their production manager, but i have used corel for the same purpose - with and without bridge programs like co-cut. properly used, corel is as powerful a sign program as any of the above - and a lot more user friendly
I just ran into a similar problem. I use Illustrator CS2. When I brought the graphic into Cutstudio, at first I didn't see anything. Then I zoomed out and saw a tiny teeny box with some big lines. I realized it was guidelines I had created in Illustrator. Somehow it turned them into Vector lines. See if you have guidelines in the original file. If you do, remove them. Maybe that will work.
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I can import a corel .eps file into flexi and never had any corrupt problems. Just make sure to convert text to curves and you should be fine. Corel Draw is definitely a program that CAN be used in the sign making industry.
I use Corel and AI. and import into Flexi. I have seen AI. create lines and also export them from set clipart images. All you need to do is ungroup the image and weld like colors. Try weld and let us know if you fix the problem.
it just occured to me the problem you may be having with an exported .ai file....when exporting you get the window shown in the screen shot below - be sure to uncheck everything except "include preview image". if any of the 'simulate complex curves, etc. are checked - those extra lines will be present!
new to vinyl 
open your graphic in corel and look at it in wireframe mode - are there extra cut lines present? if so, you'll need to eliminate them before it will cut properly. if you wish, email it to me (the corel file, please!) and i'll take a look at it for you 
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