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. |
