you can normally correct this either in the printer or you can use calibrate to printer to get the cutter
to cut the same size as the printer.
Origin Only is not normally used on cutter because its is hard to load media straight. Origin only
does a alignment with the visual sensor at the origin only.
Edge is not normally used on cutters. By selecting EDGE in the driver's printing preferences
menu, the SmartMark sensor will detect the edge of the media instead of a registration mark, then
offset into the media by that amount and cut your blank labels.
Designing Labels
Planning Label
This tutorial will design a large contour cut of a photo of a duck 26 x 10 inches (66 x 25 cm) label
for a printer and an i-TECH cutter with SmartMark
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with CorelDraw and Illustrator.
Now that we have work space planned choose program to design your artwork. The image I used
was found on the internet at http://twilightearth.com/environment-archive-2/there-is-this-duck-that-
i-have-lunch-with/. Right click on the image and save it.
Using Adobe Suite Tools
Open photoshop and crop, magic wand and trim using laso tool to erase water near duck. No need
to be real accurate as we will create a cut line that trims the duck the way we want it to appear.
save image as duck no water.jpg
Use image -> size change height of image to 10. This makes the width about 22 inches.
save image as duck bigger image.jpg
Open Illustrator and create a new document.
Change units to inches
Change width to 28 and height to 11
Click ok
Click on view -> rulers if rulers missing
Click on window -> layers if layer menu missing
Click on window -> color if color menu missing
Now create two layers. One called “dielines” and one called “print”. This is done from the layer
window. Click on new layer button. Then rename the layers as dielines and print by double click-
ing on layer name, changing name and clicking on ok.
Next create the die lines. Click on the dielines layer on the layer window.
Create the die line for the target
Select dielines layer
Click on file place. select duck bigger image.
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