Chapter 19: Choosing a Fill Color that Matches Printer Output............................................... 221
Printing EDGE Match Color Matching System charts..................................................................................221
Choosing and assigning an EDGE Match color.............................................................................................222
Chapter 20: Making and Using GerberColor Spectratone Colors............................................. 225
Making a Spectratone chart of all possible colors in inventory...................................................................225
Making a Spectratone chart of some colors in inventory .............................................................................226
Printing a chart of Spectratone tints................................................................................................................228
Filling objects with Spectratone colors............................................................................................................229
Chapter 21: Assigning PANTONE Colors ........................................................................................ 231
Using ColorID to choose software simulations of solid PANTONE Colors..............................................232
Chapter 22: Strokes ⎯ Adding Print Thickness to the Outline of Objects ............................ 233
What is a stroke? ................................................................................................................................................233
Adding strokes to an object..............................................................................................................................233
Editing stroke attributes....................................................................................................................................236
Global stroke width editing..............................................................................................................................237
Converting strokes to shapes with Expand Strokes......................................................................................238
Book Five: Making the Design Print and Cut Correctly............................................................... 241
Chapter 23: Before Printing or Cutting, Check the Design ........................................................ 243
Using the Select and View menus to check a job...........................................................................................243
Checking and selecting vinyl colors................................................................................................................244
Checking and selecting fills and strokes by color .........................................................................................244
Checking and selecting fills and strokes by color type.................................................................................245
Checking and selecting fills and strokes by halftone type...........................................................................245
Checking and selecting which objects will cut, print, or both.....................................................................246
Checking and selecting images and image templates ..................................................................................247
Checking and selecting overlaps, overprints, or primer ..............................................................................247
Checking and selecting Small Text by color type..........................................................................................247
Checking and selecting open shapes...............................................................................................................247
Checking and selecting Locked Objects..........................................................................................................247
Checking and selecting Clipping Paths ..........................................................................................................248
Checking and selecting dimensions ................................................................................................................248
Selecting stacked objects on the work surface ...............................................................................................248
Chapter 24: Five Steps to Successful Output................................................................................ 249
Overview: 5 steps to successful thermal printer output...............................................................................249
1. Check and assign the vinyl color.................................................................................................................249
2. Check and assign fills and strokes...............................................................................................................250
3. Check and assign or remove object cut lines..............................................................................................250
4. Check and rearrange objects in the stacking order ...................................................................................250
5. Combining and filling groups for printing ................................................................................................251
Chapter 25: Solving Printing and Registration Problems........................................................... 253
Check the job ......................................................................................................................................................253
Poor print-to-cut registration ...........................................................................................................................253
Poor print-to-print registration........................................................................................................................254
Changing the vinyl and foil print order .........................................................................................................262
Printing a light color over a darker color........................................................................................................264
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