Product Drawings

3. Contour Cut (Print and Cut)

3.00 Quick Reference for Chapter 3

• How to calibrate the camera: Section 3.03.2

• How to set up a contour cut: Section 3.04

• How to add more registration marks: Section 3.08

• How to speed up the scanning process: Section 3.04.3

• Troubleshooting inaccurate PNC results: Section 3.06

• How to set up repeats: Sections 3.07 (within contour cut window) and 3.10.1 (on main screen)

• How to use QR codes in a contour cut application: Section 3.10

• How to do a PNC from a USB flash drive file: Section 3.09.1 and 3.10.3 (with QR Code)

• How to use the Array Mark function on the control panel: Section 3.09.2

3.01 What Is a Contour Cut?

• The contour cut process (also called print and cut or PNC) involves printing an image from SignMaster to

any printer you own (or exporting as PDF) and then, with the aid of the Skycut’s camera, having the image

or images cut out with perfect precision. Below are three typical kinds of print and cut applications but there

can be other kinds.

◊ Cuts along the actual borders of the printed image(s):

◊ Cuts outside of the borders but follows the shape(s) of the printed image(s):

◊ Cuts follow a different shape from that of the printed image(s):

Image is precisely cut along

printed borders

Image is cut in same shape

but offset from the printed

borders (contour cut)