Full Version: Are cutters good at plotting?
From: Rodney Gold (RODNEY_GOLD) [#2]
14 Sep 2005
To: sfsjkid [#1] 15 Sep 2005
They work just fine , you can get a pen holder instead of the blade holder. In fact the cutters grew up from plotters. Most cutter software will come with a tiling setup.
You will need vector based stuff for plotting , a jpg will be difficult as you would have to produce a vector trace of it. DXF will be fine and so will PDF so long as the mebeded image in the PDF is a vector based one.
We often use our large format printer/vinyl cutter to produce templates for erecting cut letters , we do one of 2 things , either let the printhead print on paper or change the blade holder to a pen one and plot it (small stuff is quicker to actually print and the ability to print DOES handle jpegs or non vector based stuff)
Our machine is a print and cut machine.
From: sfsjkid [#3]
15 Sep 2005
To: ALL
Rodney, thank you for the quick reply! It does make sense that plotter would need vector based graphics, I should have realized that. I see myself forever converting jpgs etc to vector so I will probably get a smaller cutter and a slightly wider injet. Appreciate the nudge in the right direction!
Regards,
Frank