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

4.4

Bounding box details

4.4.1

Hints, tips and recommendations

To use the automatic alignment procedure, the pre-printed sheet contains a bounding box
around the design to be cut.
Note that the bounding box around your design(s) is printed. Before contour-cutting the
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EPOS technology will search for the bounding box and measure the position of the
design(s).
Be sure that there is 5 mm of white space between the image and the bounding box.
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Be sure that the bounding 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 bounding box fits within the margins of the maximum cutting width of
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your cutting plotter.
On a Kona apparel the maximum width is marked by the 2 extra holes at both the left and
right side of the platform.
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 bounding 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).
Thickness line = hairline (or 0.25)
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Colour = 100% magenta
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For more details, please refer to the CutServer Application Guide.
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AP-75381 - Revision 1.3
Application Guide Kona / Kona apparel
Contourcutting
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Indicates the max
working width when
working with a
Kona Apparel
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