wadem 0 Posted January 1, 2008 First, thanks to everyone who has helped out with suggestions and answers to this point. It helps so much. My goal is to do stickers and transfers that can either be used as a sticker on whatever or for businesses to advertise on their vehicle windows. So far it looks like the creation p-cut 24" is the way to go with signblazer software. Couple of questions: i) to import and use design ideas can I do this directly into the signblazer software or will I need something like Corel Draw as well and if so what exactly is the difference between the two and ii)in order to do multicolored designs, is it just a matter of printing off two designs, one in each color, and placing them on top of one another or is there an easier way to do it? Just not sure how to achieve, for example, a company name in one color (blue) on top of a soild white background shape (white circle). I know this is likely to sound like a basic type of thing but that is about where I am at with regards to getting into all this and I really want to make sure I don't jump into buying something when I should've made sure it was what I needed to achieve the results I am after. Thanks yet again for any help at all. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
imarcnut 0 Posted January 1, 2008 Hi I have only had my Pcut 24 for 2 weeks but am definately getting the hang of it. Have done a couple of different overlays. These are red on black on white to make them decals. Sign blazer works very well at importing multiple files and putting them together and also at text and text effects. I find it a bit limitedwhen it comes to editing pictures. This is where corel or inkscape comes in. You design there, export,save. Open up Signblazer and import, arrange, size, colour, whatever you need to get it perfect. When it is time to plot/cut, in your "cutting" screen it shows each individual color that you have used and one of these colors / shapes will be be visible. You can select as many copies of the one color as needed, cut, and then pick your next color. Repeating as needed for each color. After, you get to arrange them together. I have oversimplified things but hopefully I gave you an idea of what to expect when working with this. You are on the right track and should do well with your purchase! Bill Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jerry Bonham 1 Posted January 2, 2008 Excellent advice. When you have exhausted all the tools in SignBlazer Elements then Ken will upgrade you to SignBlazer Pro for a fraction of the normal retail price. That has more vector tools for design than any other software program in the world. You will be able to create designs for cutting that cannot be created in any other software. and in a fraction of the time of any other software. Jerry from SignBlazer., Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wadem 0 Posted January 3, 2008 Thanks for the replies, yet again. So, to make sure I totally understand this, to make a sticker like the two you show you cut out each of the color shapes seperate, the white background, the person and the anti sign, then stack them on top of each other and that is the finished product? So, does that give the final product a raised surgace where the black and red sit on top of the white background? Lastly, to make that into the type of sticker that sits on white paper that you rub and then peel the paper off, do you add that paper last? Hope that all makes sense. Still trying to grasp a few things on how all this goes together to make the final product and how much time it would take to make up one of those finished stickers. Thanks again. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jerry Bonham 1 Posted January 3, 2008 These are the steps. 1. Cut the black and red separately with registrations marks. 2. Weed both copies. 3. Place app tape on the red. 4. put the red onto the black (a light box is a real asset) lining up the rego marks. 5. Lift the app paper and remove the rego marks (smart users put them a little outside and just cut them off) Logo is ready to go. Other points. The easy way to put the red over the black, However with SignBlazer Pro you use the trapping tool and this puts about a 2/3 mm (one eight of an inch) overlap on the black and automatically removes the excess underlying black. You need this overlap in case there is shrinkage. Hope this helps, there are also links elsewhere here that point to videos on how to do all this work, Jerry from SignBlazer. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
