Cutting a negative offset

[Guest Andy HILL]

I'm using LTR program. When I contour cut a sticker printed on white vinyl, say a motorcycle logo for a gas tank. I want to make sure only yellow is on the outside. Can I cut just a little inside the cut line? All the tutorials only talk about making the border bigger. I want it smaller to insure no white shows up.

[Dakotagrafx 7,297]

add a slightly bigger yellow outline and then contour cut to the inside by a negative value 

[Wildgoose 4,200]

A lot of time they talk about printing outside the contour line which should be a different line in your design. You can set that line wherever you want I believe. If your wanting the end product to be precise then you would in fact add a little to the outermost printed areas of the logo so that when contoured it is correct. I have not tried to contour with VM so the specific how-to is not in my knowledge bank but either way like you mentioned or adding print outside the contour line should get you where you want to be.