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In Flexi with your graphic selected click on the contour cut tool. It will give you options as to how far out or ib you want to cut. After you have done all that, click on Rip and Print. This will bring up your work screen. Go to the advanced tab, then choose contour, then make sure that send as seperate jobs is checked. Next you will click send. When you hit send, it will send the job to your printer. After you have the sheet form your printer, load it in the cutter and go to Production manager on your pc. In PM look for your cutter in the set up list on the left, it should have a plus sign beside it letting you know that there is a job waiting. Click the plus sign and the job will show up in the right, click on the job and then click send. You will then get a pop up that ask you how you want to align the marks. For your cutter you will have to choose manual because its not able to digitize. Choose manual and you will get a screen that says align mark 1 and there will be directional arrows on your screen. Use the arrow to move the head a paper til the knife is directly over point 1, do this for the 2 or 4 points whichever you set it up to do then it will tell you to click ok to start cutting. I know that's probably confusing and I could probably walk you through it better on the phone so if you don't get it feel free to pm me your number and ill call you. JB

How do you line up the registration marks on cutter that doesn't have a laser? Can you walk me through the procedure. I'd like to experiment with that. I'm also using 8.1 Pro. What cutter do you have?

I have flexi 8.1 pro and it contour cuts fine, I just have to manually line up all the registration marks. JB

Ok I currently own 2 summa D60/U machines and 1 older Summa D610, and im possibly looking to sell all three to purchase a Roland GX-24. The main reason being the auto contour cut feature. I can contour cut through flexi with my machines, but I have to manually digitize the points, which isnt a great big deal, but when your doing 20 to 30 tshirt tranfers it sure does hurt production time. My question is this, With the GX24 how does the contour cutting work with flexi. With the Summa, i create my contour lines, then go to rip and print and after I have my printed image i load it in the cutter and send to cutter and it will have me digitize my points...will the GX24 automatically do this then or is that only through cut studio? I really like flexi and I hate to move from one software to another to design , cut etc. PS. if anyone would be interested in any of my cutters in NC let me know. Thanks JB

You are my HERO.....works just exactly like I thought it should. thanks a BUNCH!! JB

Im pretty sure You have to change all those setting in windows printer settings. I made several profiles on my printer setting so I can easily switch back and forth. JB

Yes I can do this(send to PM on desktop then cut from there) but I was thinking i should be able to cut straight from my laptop.

Well kinda... i guess. I mean I have all my computers networked together so that all my laptops and desktops will print on the printers hooked up to my main pc. I would assume that you could do this with a vinyl cutter also but maybe im wrong....the summa doesnt show up on the printers screen to enable the sharing like my printers do. JB

I mean without having to have it hooked to my laptop. If you can help with please do tell...lol

Hello Im using Flexi Pro 8.1 and a Summa cutter. Right now if I want to cut anything I do on my laptop i have to send it to the production manager on my desktop since thats where the machine is hooked. I was thinking i should be able to cut straight from my laptop, kind of like I can print from any pc in my house. Any Ideas? thanks JB

Nevermind, I got it

I have just got my new Summa cutter and with my Roland I used SBE and Cut studio. With the summa I cannot use cut studio and there is 1 file that i desperately need but SBE will not open CST files. Is there a way to convert cst files. Im not sure I have enough time to redraw the graphic. Any help will be greatly appreciated. JB

Ok scratch all that lol...I bought a Summa. Its a used Summacut D60/U got a pretty good deal I think and from what I understand Summa is one the best cutters out there. Thanks for all the help and suggestions. JB

Ok getting closer...supposed to know something on the graphtec tomorrow. If that doesnt work out .... which of these is the better unit Pcut Seiki GCC Sable

Ok I may have just found a real deal....I found a used graphtec ce3000mk2-60 24" cutter on craigslist for 500.00. Its not really in driving distance so Ill have to have the guy ship it but he said that would be like $50.00. I know this is an older graphtec but my roland was probably 20 years old. What do you guys think? JB