Cameo help please

[philfoot]

Hi all

May be asking the impossible but worth a try. Hope its ok to post here, I am not doing vinyl but I know a lot of the guys who do vinyl also use the Cameo, couldnt find another relevant section.

i produce personalised wall clocks. I want to introduce the glass sublimation clock (20cm). I produce the design with Corel Draw X4 then I have a Cameo Silhoutte which I was told by the company I bought it from would do the job, but I find when using the Cameo and Cutwizard software and producing my vector layer to enable me to cut the centre 10mm hole for the clock mechanism to come through, and the overall outer size of 20cm, that the registration marks fall out side of the dimensions of an A4 sheet of paper.

Thought it was the answer to my problems cutting a pefect circle, well 2 if you count the 10mm hole in the middle. Company I purchased it from just said they made a mistake, and ........ well and nothing, thanks Graphtecgb. THe only way seems to be to go for an A3 printer, even though I dont really need the A3 size of paper to acutally print my clock on, it would be merely to print the registration marks on to enable the cutter to do its job.

Has anyone come across this, or is there a nice simple way of doing what I want with the Cameo without the need to invest in a bigger printer and extra pointless A3 paper.

If anyone has any ideas I would be so grateful.

Thanks for reading

Phil

[neilb]

I may be misunderstanding the problem but you don't need registration marks just to cut the circles.

[Paul]

I must say i dont understand the question...
What do you need the reg marks for?

[Justin]

Confusing post. Are you printing the design with sublimation? The post seems to read (to me at least) that you're using vinyl? Please clarify

[Craig]

by readin the above i belive he is printing out the clock surface and then wants to put it into the silhouette to cut the circles hence needing the regisrartion marks otherwise the cameo will not know where to cut.

In answer to your questions im not too sure ow to cure your issue but will have a look on my cameo when i am back near it.

[philfoot]

Hi all

I knew I would confuse people, just a gift!

I am not cutting vinyl. Craig is right, I am printing out the clock design containing photo and text on my printer on sublimation paper, then want to cut out the 2 circles only (10mm and 20cm) to give me the outer diamtere of the clock face and the centre hole, not the photo or text outlines. So to do that, or so I have been told is the 'right' way is to put it through the Cutwizard program which when I make a vector layer on Corel Draw X4 the machine 'recognises the 2 circles only from the vector layer and I can put on the registration marks, and hey presto it will cut out my 2 circles containing my clock design.

I hope that is a better or clearer explanation of what I am trying to do. It works great on a smaller clock face allowing enough room for the registration marks, but it needs quite a bit of room around my design before it puts on to the design the registration marks so I can feed it through the Cameo.

Sorry for any confusion folks!

Hope that helps.

Kind regards

Phil

[bms]

You don't need to cut anything when you're using sublimation inks. Just print your image onto A4 paper. Doesn't even have to be a circle. They lay your clock face over the image, hold in place with heat tape and press (covering the top and bottom with silicon paper to avoid inks gasing onto the base). I think you're trying to make this more difficult than it needs to be.

[Paul]

much clearer now but still dont know why this process involve the cameo to be used.

[Justin]

Well, after your latest post Phil I came to the conclusion that you're making paper faced clocks using sublimation paper :-(

[viccar]

Is it because you are trying to print on A4 printer, you would need A3 printer to print the reg lines on a 20cm circle.
The biggest circle on A4 paper with reg marks is 18cm.