Perforated cutting is set up by combining Die Cut ( ), which cuts through to the carrier paper, and
Kiss Cut ( ), which only cuts through the material, leaving the carrier paper intact. Perforated cutting
can be used with materials with no carrier paper, such as coated paper.
IMPORTANT
Leave some parts of the carrier paper uncut even when you want to cut through parts of the material. Cutting
through to the carrier paper in all parts can cause a material feeding failure or paper jam.
MEMO
The blade force depends on the type of material or paper used. Adjust the blade force for both Die Cut and Kiss Cut
according to the material used by running a cutting test to check the cutting quality for the material.
Setting Up Perforated Cutting Using the Printer Driver
Save the cutting lines in the cutting data as perforated cutting lines and set up perforated cutting us-
ing the printer driver.
Procedure
1. Start Adobe Illustrator or CorelDRAW.
2. Click [File]>[Open] to open the file.
3. Set the cutting line to be perforated to green (R: 0 G: 255 B: 0) with a width of 0.001 mm (0.04 mil).
4. Open the [Printing Preferences] window.
P. 49 "Sending Adobe Illustrator Cutting Jobs from the Printer Driver"
P. 52 "Sending CorelDRAW Cutting Jobs from the Printer Driver"
5. Select the [Cutter] tab, and then select the [Die Cut] check box.
The blade forces and cutting lengths for [Die Cut] and [Kiss Cut] set with the driver are ap-
plied.
If the [Die Cut] check box is cleared, the "Die/Kiss Cut" cutting conditions set with the opera-
tion panel are applied.
6. Set the cutting lengths and blade forces for [Die Cut] and [Kiss Cut], respectively.
The ranges of [Die Cut] length and [Kiss Cut] length are 0 to 2000 mm (0 to 78.74 in.) and 0 to
100 mm (0 to 3.93 in.), respectively.
Cutting Perforated Lines
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