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By any chance are you doing all your design and layout in CMYK? Are the colours (that's the way we spell it up here) in the EPS file RGB? Just curious.
Dan
We run a Mimaki printer and a Summa cutter here and the Summa never misses the registration marks - laminated, unlaminated, matte, even the static cling stuff. The Summa OPUS is legendary.
Dan
I can assure you it's not Google. Just Google "Susan Google Specialist" for more information than you could possibly digest in a thousand lifetimes.
Dan
Working/designing in sRGB will give you the closest match to the output of your Roland. Most CMYK color spaces only manage a small subset of what your Roland can produce. Let your RIP (Versaworks) handle the color conversion. That's what it was designed to do.
Dan
We have a guy with a waterjet and a laser that we sub out our dimensional stuff to - I provide him with the vector files. He's done a few inlay projects for us with his waterjet and they came out perfect.
Dan
Bear in mind that when you route out, for instance a "T" the inside angles will have a radius equal to the diameter of your bit whereas the outside angles will be sharp. The opposite is going to happen when you route the "pocket".
You're going to be the victim of the round peg in a square hole...
+1 to what Bob and Jackpine said.
I like to export to an uncompressed tif instead of a jpg. It just avoids compression artifacts that sometimes degrade the image.
Dan
Done many of them using the blue foam and the pink foam - buy at the local building supply. Cut them out with a scroll saw - paint them with a good quality latex paint - stick 'em on with PL400.
A word of warning though. Some colours (that's the way we spell it up here) seem to attract...
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