Brother Vinyl Cutter Manual

CREATING CUTTING DATA (Scan to Cut Data)

■ Scanning a Touch the “Scan” key in the home screen to select the scanning mode.

A printed pattern or image or an original hand-drawn illustration can be scanned, converted to cutting lines for cutting/drawing with this machine, then saved as data.

b Select “Scan to Cut Data” in the scanning mode selection screen.

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Tutorial 4 - Creating Cutting Data

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, select the scanning mode, and then

In this tutorial, we will save an illustration drawn on paper as cutting data.

touch the “OK” key. • First, test with grayscale recognition mode. If the desired cutting data is not created, test with color recognition mode.

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■ Preparing the material When using the “Scan to Cut Data” mode, use originals like those described below. • Patterns that are clearly drawn, with no gradation, fading or blurriness • Not using an extremely intricate design

a Grayscale recognition mode The cutting data is created after the illustration is converted to grayscale. Scanning in grayscale recognition mode is most appropriate for illustrations with clear outlines or distinct brightness differences. Processing is faster with this mode compared with the color recognition mode. If there are adjacent objects of the same color after an illustration has been converted to grayscale, select the color recognition mode.

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