Discuss the various aspects of heat pressed vinyl transfers. Popular and new types of vinyl media, suppliers, vinyl cutters /plotters, press times, quality, how to instructions and more can be found in this heat press sub forum.
You would cut the first colour, line it up on your t-shirt and press, peel the backing off, then cut the second colour, line this up over or next to the first colour, depending how your design was and press again, peel the backing off and i always press again with teflon sheet or whatever you use.
An optical eye is used to cut around designs printed on vinyl or transfer paper.
I have a endura cut plus and I have no optical eye. Two color designs are very easy to do.i have done 4 and 5 color designs.i think the optical eye is used mor for trimming around printed graphics. ...... JB
Yup, the optical eye for registration marks is for contour cutting around printed designs. most modern plotters also have an optical eye for measuring the media you're using so it doesn't run out of your plotter while its cutting. That also makes it real easy for setting up your plot job.
I've done six-color designs and my Fiance has done eight-color designs!
I think you might have misunderstood me. We DID have problems with TwillUSA's vinyl with a multi-color design. The cream became more and more pink on a red sweatshirt. It wasn't pretty.
I use a teflon sheet when I press multi color designs. Its better to use it and not need it than to find Garment material melted on your press. Craft paper will give a nice sheen (not Charlie) to the finished product.
I think you might have misunderstood me. We DID have problems with TwillUSA's vinyl with a multi-color design. The cream became more and more pink on a red sweatshirt. It wasn't pretty.
oh im sorry/
ive overlooked that info/
hopefully the ones that ive been using can be pressed for several times without discoloration
__________________ i can live with nothing on but a shirt
I've done six-color designs and my Fiance has done eight-color designs!
My question is - can you send only part of the job to the cutter.
You have a design with say 3 colours - rather than have 3 copies of the file with the different colours in each one, possibly making size changes to one and not the other, can you have one design and only send the colour that you wish to cut to the cutter
-OR-
(thinking on the fly here, very dangerous) do you send from your design prog (in this case Corel Draw) to your cutting prog (in this case Roland's CutStudio) and while it is in the cutting prog, delete the bits that you don't need?
Yes, you can totally cut by color or layer with most plotter.
So if you have a three color design, you load your design in your plotter's software, and in your plotter software you seperate it by color or layer. You choose one color, load that color vinyl up, then send it.
In our case, we use the plugin that came with our plotter (Cutting Master 2) and cut directly from CorelDRAW X3. We don't use the plotter software (ROBO Master Pro). Saves a step and works just as well with all the same options.
Two color designs 
Re: Two color designs 
