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Silhouette Help
I'm hosting a couples shower for my brother and (soon to be) SIL in a few weeks & I wanted to make some vinyl decals (printable vinyl) for clear frosted cups at the party. I designed them in Photoshop to match the invitations and did a test print to make sure they looked the way I wanted them to-- then, I imported the image into Silhouette Studio, defined the cut lines & added the registration marks, printed & cut.
I'm not impressed with the accuracy of the cutting-- I defined the cut line & adjusted the threshold and it looks great on the screen, but is slightly off when it cuts-- see the white rim around the left side?
Can anyone help? It's probably just a bit of trial and error, but at $2/sheet it's expensive to make mistakes!
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Re: Silhouette Help
So I have zero experience with the silhouette cutter- we have a big vinyl plotter at my house because my husband used to have a sign business.
Can you print the whole page/background blue and then cut? Or give it a "bleed" so that your shape is about .125" bigger all the way around than your cut line? Even when things are professionally printed and cut, you have to have a bleed or you will have white lines on the edge.
Or am I completely wrong here thinking that this machine only cuts- does it print too?
ETA: OMG your baby frog pic is so flipping cute!
Hey Kate!
Thanks for trying to help-- the machine does not print, just cuts! The page layout is created in Silhouette Studio (the software that comes with the machine), then these were printed using an inkjet printer on a sheet of printable vinyl-- no where near the edge of the page. The problem is that the Silhouette defines its cut line by the edge of your shape. It does have a threshold that you can adjust which helps highlight what part of the shape you want to cut out (it's kind of hard to explain). If you were to make your shape bigger, it would just cut it out bigger, b/c it's looking for the edge, if that makes any sense. I may try again on a sheet of paper (so I don't waste my vinyl) and see if maybe it was just off that once? I've watched some tutorials, and the cuts looked pretty accurate!
Thanks again for trying to help! And thanks for the compliment on my pic-- I need to add his little brother's pic (sock monkey!) to my sig!