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8 Cutting Printed Material
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Making stickers and the like involves cutting around figures that have already been printed.
With the CX-24/12, sensors on the cutting carriage read guide marks printed on the material (crop marks) and use these to align the
positioning for printing and cutting.
You use the program to lay out the crop marks before creating the design.
10 mm
(0.39 in.)
±3 mm (0.12 in.) or less with 500 mm (19-5/8 in.) or less of
movement distance in the material-feed direction
8 Cutting Printed Material
8-2 Shape and Layout of Crop Marks
Shape of Crop Marks
Crop marks that can be read by the sensors must be circular
and have a diameter of 10 mm.
For the color density, specify 100% black.
8-1 Using Crop Marks
In order for the crop marks to be able to be read by the CX-24/12, the conditions below must be met.
- Data-creation Program
Use a drawing or PostScript program compatible with the CX-24/12.
Data from bitmap programs that work chiefly with images cannot be output with the CX-24/12.
The program must have functions that let you designate specific points as the reference for printing, and also that let you freely move
such designated points.
- Printer
Use a laser or inkjet printer.
Depending on the printer, however, the CX-24/12 may be unable to read printed crop marks.
A resolution of 720 dpi or higher is required.
Printers that smudge solid areas during printing produce crop marks that cannot be read.
- Materials
Use material that can be printed by a laser or inkjet printer and that meets the following conditions.
Material type: : Laser printers -> High-quality paper, coated paper, art paper, or PET
Inkjet printers -> High-quality paper or coated paper
Material thickness: about 0.2 mm
Color : White
Crop marks on laminated material cannot be read.
If the CX-24/12 cannot read crop marks or if printing and cutting are misaligned even when all the conditions have been fulfilled and
operations have been carried out correctly, the cause may be one of the following.
- Program accuracy
- Printer accuracy
- Expansion or contraction of the material due to ambient temperature or humidity
When unaffected by these factors, the alignment accuracy of the CX-24/12 is as follows.