Okay, so first and foremost I have owned a secondhand Mutoh Kona 1400 for about 5 years now and used it for dozens and dozens of vinyl placements, stencils, etc. I also own a wide format printer, but it's an older model Canon ipf8400 that doesnt do dye-sub.
Well i finally got my hands on a decent printer, a used Canon imagePrograf Pro-1000 for a steal. It doesnt print very wide, but it does print amazing colors and I wanted to try out contour cutting in Vinyl Master Cut. Ive already researched my options, and I belive printing from Illustrator to the Canon with crop marks, and then letting the Mutoh align itself would be the way to move forward.
So the trouble I am having is the contour cut wizard in Vinyl master cut appears to not give me any options to increase the force of my knife for a perf cut after the kiss cut. kiss cut seems to be cutting through on some tests I ran, but what is the point of doing a perf cut if I can't adjust the cutting force?
See screenshots 1 and 2.
So my first question is, is Vinyl Master cut limited in the ability to adjust cutting force when sending cuts to the plotter from the cutting wizard? Is there another option somewhere? I remember using FlexiSign at the signshop I worked at and being able to setup jobs in the software with adjustments like these on a similar plotter. Is it the version I am using?
My second question is, is there another software package that would give me a "print-to-cut" workflow with my existing hardware? I can print the bounding boxes (for the kona) on my files manually I assume, but aligning everything would be easier with software that does it for me.
Thanks for any input! I feel like theres many ways to skin a cat, and everyone has their own method!
Well i finally got my hands on a decent printer, a used Canon imagePrograf Pro-1000 for a steal. It doesnt print very wide, but it does print amazing colors and I wanted to try out contour cutting in Vinyl Master Cut. Ive already researched my options, and I belive printing from Illustrator to the Canon with crop marks, and then letting the Mutoh align itself would be the way to move forward.
So the trouble I am having is the contour cut wizard in Vinyl master cut appears to not give me any options to increase the force of my knife for a perf cut after the kiss cut. kiss cut seems to be cutting through on some tests I ran, but what is the point of doing a perf cut if I can't adjust the cutting force?
See screenshots 1 and 2.
So my first question is, is Vinyl Master cut limited in the ability to adjust cutting force when sending cuts to the plotter from the cutting wizard? Is there another option somewhere? I remember using FlexiSign at the signshop I worked at and being able to setup jobs in the software with adjustments like these on a similar plotter. Is it the version I am using?
My second question is, is there another software package that would give me a "print-to-cut" workflow with my existing hardware? I can print the bounding boxes (for the kona) on my files manually I assume, but aligning everything would be easier with software that does it for me.
Thanks for any input! I feel like theres many ways to skin a cat, and everyone has their own method!
