Gimp To Vinyl Cutter

When you have your design all set send it to the vinyl cutter.

Gimp to vinyl cutter.

The versaworks software rip software needs an eps file to know what to print. It s free and a must have for all hobbyists. Prepare the file with the vinyl cutter s bundled program i use roland cutstudio but you can use inkscape or another program. To create my vector file i used inkscape.

Feb 26 2013 how to use gimp and inkscape to make vinyl svg files. That eps file can have very thin hairline lines of a specific color 100 magenta to tell the rip software where to cut. How to take an image file on the desktop and turn it into something that the vinyl cutter will understand. I have been watching some tutorials about paths and i m getting quite good at manipulating curves and such.

With inkscape open the image file created in gimp. Anytime i buy a new pc the first software i ll install is inkscape and gimp. I m using a roland versastudio 20 vinyl printer cutter. Cnc laser cutters vinyl cutters plasma waterjet routers they all will read a dxf file.

Cutting vinyl letters and shapes. For some images you may need to do some editing first by using the path tools cut away any part of image you don t want then using selection as path then select invert then edit cut. But i don t know if i can output to the plotter from gimp. The knife moves side to side and turns while the vinyl is moved beneath the knife.

The material is then weeded where the excess parts of the picture are removed. What results from the cut process is an image cut into the material. Add a box around the image leaving at least 2 3 of margin around all sides of your image so that the ink won t seep around the edges.