About crop marks

Crop marks are used when material printed on a printer is aligned for cutting.
(The positions of crop marks and the way that they are set vary depending on the model. The alignment function using crop marks cannot be used with the SV-15/12/8.)
The general flow of printing and cutting operations is as shown below.

Printing and cutting operations
  1. Set the artboard size.
  2. Activate crop marks and decide on their locations.
  3. Create the data for printing and cutting inside the crop marks.
  4. Print the data with the printer.
  5. Load the printed material on the cutting machine.
  6. Send the path (cutting data) to the cutting machine.
    After crop mark detection, cutting starts.

TITLE Set the artboard size

Set the size of the material to print and cut.

  1. Click [Artboard] on the [Window] menu.
    This displays the [Artboard] panel.


  2. Click [Artboard Options] on the [Artboard] panel menu.
    The [Artboard Options] dialog box appears.


  3. Set the size of the material to use in printing and cutting.

 Crop-mark settings

Crop marks are used when material printed on a printer is aligned for cutting.
Because these crop marks are detected using the cutting machine, they must be printed inside the material's detection area (that is, within the cutting area).
If even a portion of the crop marks falls outside the area, correct detection may fail.

  1. Click to activate crop marks.
    Crop marks are displayed on the artboard.


  2. Click the arrow in the upper-right corner of the palette, and then click [Crop Marks].
    The [Crop Marks] dialog box appears.


  3. Take into account the margin necessary for cutting the material and set the crop mark position.

    When cutting with the GR-640/540/420 or GX-640/500/400, set the following printing margins.
    Margins and crop mark positions

    *: When you're using lengthy material having a large amount of feed, we recommend providing left and right margins of about 25 millimeters each.

    At this time, enter the following values or calculated values for the crop mark positions.



    When cutting with the GX-24 or GS-24, enter the following values.
    Size Crop mark positions
    with 4 crop marks
    Crop mark positions
    with 3 crop marks
    A4 portrait  X: 10 mm, Y: 20 mm
     W: 170 mm, L: 200 mm
     X: 15 mm, Y: 20 mm
     W: 170 mm, L: 210 mm
    A4 landscape  X: 30 mm, Y: 20 mm
     W: 230 mm, L: 110 mm
     X: 30 mm, Y: 20 mm
     W: 240 mm, L: 120 mm
    A3 portrait  X: 30 mm, Y: 20 mm
     W: 230 mm, L: 320 mm
     X: 30 mm, Y: 20 mm
     W: 240 mm, L: 330 mm
    A3 landscape  X: 15 mm, Y: 20 mm
     W: 370 mm, L: 195 mm
     X: 15 mm, Y: 20 mm
     W: 380 mm, L: 205 mm
    B4 portrait  X: 15 mm, Y: 20 mm
     W: 205 mm, L: 265 mm
     X: 15 mm, Y: 20 mm
     W: 215 mm, L: 275 mm
    B4 landscape  X: 15 mm, Y: 20 mm
     W: 315 mm, L: 160 mm
     X: 15 mm, Y: 20 mm
     W: 325 mm, L: 170 mm



TITLE Create the data for printing and cutting

Create the data for printing and cutting inside the crop marks.
Cutting lines outside the crop marks may not be cut.

Data-creation area

This examples assumes the printing and cutting data shown below has been created.

Sample data


TITLE Perform printing on the printer, and then cut the printed material

Load material on the printer, print the material, and then load the printed material on the cutting machine.
Perform positioning on the cutting machine, and then cut the material.

  1. Load the material to print on the printer.
    For information about how to load the material, refer to the user's manual for the printer.
    Loading the material

  2. From the [File] menu, click [Print].
    The [Print] dialog box appears.


  3. Make sure the printer to use for printing is selected, and then click [OK].
    When expanded/reduced printing is enabled, disable it. Print at 100% scale.
    The printing data is sent to the printer and printing starts.
    (Do not print the cutting lines at this time.)
    Printing


  4. After printing has finished, load the material on the cutting machine.
    Perform setup if the model you're using requires it.
    Load the material so that the three crop marks are positioned as shown in the figure on the left below in relation to the cutting machine.
    The orientation of the material must not be changed when you load it.
    Loading material on the cutting machine


  5. Click .
    (At this time, output only the cutting lines.)
    The [CutStudio Output] dialog box appears.


  6. Select the cutting machine to use to cut the material, and then click [Cut].
    The cutting data is sent to the machine and cutting starts.
    Cutting