Cutting Using The Crop-Mark Feature; How To Use The Crop-Mark Feature; Printing With Crop Marks - Roland XC-540 User Manual

3-3 Cutting Using the Crop-mark Feature

How to Use the Crop-mark Feature

The crop-mark feature is used for aligning printing and cutting. When you're printing with crop marks in one of the
following cases, you can perform automatic alignment with detection of the printed crop marks when you perform
cutting.
➢When you're cutting media that may have expanded or shrunk during printing due to the heat of the dryer or
the like
➢When you remove printed media and then reload it and perform cutting (such as when you perform cutting
after laminating the media)
Important Notes When Performing Printing Followed Immediately by Cutting
➢When you're performing cutting, switching off the media heating system and allowing the temperature to cool
before performing cutting can yield results that are more stable.
P.110 "Switching Off the Preheater, Print Heater, or Dryer"
➢The end of the cap for the blade holder may scrape or damage the printed surface. If this happens, increase the
amount of blade extension.
P.99 "Accurately Adjusting the Cutting-in Amount"

Printing with Crop Marks

Use your software RIP to make the settings for printing crop marks. For information on how to make the setting, refer
to the documentation for the software RIP you're using. Alignment marks and symbols drawn using a graphics program
cannot be used as crop marks.
The crop marks are printed as shown in the figure.
Crop mark
(Align point 3)
Crop mark
(Align point 1)
Crop mark
(Align point 2)
Crop mark
(Base point)
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