Bounding Box Details; Hints, Tips And Recommendations - MUTOH Kona User Manual

User's Guide Kona cutting plotter
Contour cutting
6.4

Bounding box details

6.4.1

Hints, tips and recommendations

To use the automatic alignment procedure, the pre-printed sheet contains a reference box
around the design to be cut.
Note that the reference box around your design(s) will be printed. Before contour-cutting
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the EPOS technology will search for the reference box and measure the position of the
design(s).
Be sure that there is 5 mm of white space between the image and the reference box.
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Be sure that the reference box has a dark colour (recommended: black) in order to have
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enough contrast with the vinyl.
The minimum thickness of the bounding box is 3 mm. However, when printing the
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print&cut file on an Osprey or Toucan, it is recommended to raise this value to at least 5
mm.
Make sure that the reference box fits within the margins of the maximum cutting width of
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your cutting plotter.
Be sure that the media has been sheeted off straight. If not, the cutter will have
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problems measuring the media.
Note
The position of the design with the reference box compared to the page edges
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is defined in the print-software.
The creation of an image should be done in a graphics application software
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(e.g. CorelDraw, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop or Macromedia Freehand)
or in origin software with design functionalities (EasySIGN Power Pack Pro
Mutoh Edition or Scanvec Amiable PhotoPRINT DX Mutoh Edition)
Do not forget to create the cutting line around your image. The default cutting
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line is a "magenta hairline" or "spotcolor" with <CutContour> swatch name (in
the CMYK pallet).
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For more details, please refer to the Kona Application Guide.
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Thickness line = hairline (or 0.25)
Colour = 100% magenta
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