I´m trying to prepare some wall stickers for the printer, but I´m not sure if is correct
They say
We need them to be 0.25pt in thickness (cutlines) , in a custom swatch (any colour) named "CutContour", in a stroke only, no fill, with a 3mm bleed inside the artwork objects.
So I did a contour using the offsef path on Illustratror CS5, it looks like is not correct, does anyone know how to creat cutlines ?
Screenshots of the file (on CloudApp)
http://cl.ly/2S001m1J22080m2R3x1m
http://cl.ly/2W0P1R1L1Y3H1L3Y3Y0i
Thanks,
Diana
As monika mentioned you actually have more that two and have to delete some of the paths the cut line is one line the bleed is just space between the printed art and the dieline (cut.)
here eliminate the lines indicated by the arrows so you end up with one cut line and make certain it is a one path unless you feel the space between the legs needs to be cut.
It should look like this I assume that it is being printed on transparent vynil so the space between the legs need not be cut. You can question them about that.
I personally think they could have simply corrected this themselves take them about 30 seconds>
It should look like this
Quite frankly I do not understand the meaning of what you are saying it seems like some kind shiorthand.
What I am saying i shat you have to eliminate the line in the inside the one that traces the art and only6 use the line at the outside edge of the bleed. It is a decal you cannot cut along the edge of printed art, you cut along the edge of the bleed.
Notice you have two lines that are connecting the blled line and the line I think you are calling the contour you have to get rid of those two lines as well.
Here these lins have to go as well.
I did the same steps as this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7fznq7Qcb0 but the printer said "We require the cutlines to be inside the object with 3mm bleed outside the cutline" so I did two lines,
It all sounds pretty straightforward to me.
The cut line is where you have the edge of your existing artwork. It's the inner one of the 2 pink lines you made.
Your printer is asking you to extend your artwork so that it goes beyond the cut line. He wants more black around the outside so that when the design is cut out it won't have a white edge if the cutter doesn't register exactly.
Have your cut line in a spot colour on a separate top layer and set it to overprint.
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