tryplecrown

I was just wondering if anyone uses any sort of crop marks in your designs so you know where to trim after weeding (and applying transfer tape if adhesive vinyl)? I have a 200 piece run coming up of some small 5" car decals and wanted to be consistant in the size that I trim each decal to.

I was just wondering if anyone could post an image of the cropmark setups they use for this? THanks for your help.

 

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tryplecrown

This is sort of what I had in mind. I was going to use small squares like in this image. I thought after weeding, I would cut the top and bottom horizontal edges first (see the red cut lines in this image), and then cut the two vertical side edges.

Would this work or is there an easier way?

 

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prometheus

I don't know if I am totaly comprehending this. Is the black part what will remain, the decal? If so, I would think that all you would have to do is make a box around the image and use that as your crop and palce to weed.

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lindyts

I would put 7 inch box (outline) around the "M". Cut the box and "M". Weed the box and leave the "M". Now on the carrier paper you will see where the blade marked the paper (indented). Use this as your cut marks.

The little boxes would work, but very hard to weed.

 

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tryplecrown

Thanks guys. I actually just got a new GX-24 and just got it set up. Haven't even had a chance to cut anything but the small test sheet that came in the box. I have a few rolls of vinyl that just came in so I'm planning to cut on these rolls this weekend. It just seemed like lining up the straight edge along 2 points would be easier than trying to line it up along a line, but I can't speak from experience. Like I mentioned, I have a 200 piece order lined up and just wanted to make sure I was using the easiest, most efficient method. Thanks for the tips.

One other thing if anyone has any pointers (and I'll run a search on this), but when you do a 2 color image and lay one color over another, how do you line them up? Do you use some sort of registration marks? For some reason, I think I saw a post once where someone said they used one small box in the top two corners (similar to the ones in my sample image above) and used those to register the top layer down on to the bottom layer.

 

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