Jani Pedersen
03-08-2010, 7:05 PM
Hi again,
Yesterday I did my first rubber stamps, taking advice from the boards here alongside the epilog pages.
Epilog suggest doing two passes, the first to 'break' the rubber - but I haven't seen that mentioned here. Epilog also gave settings for a 120w machine !
I have figured out that if I do a first pass at 10sp 100 power and then a second at 15sp and 100 I have a really nice outcome (or vice versa).
However I am keen to find out if it is necessary to do them in two passes as I have found I had a bit of flaring on the second pass if I didn't take the rubber out to clean it inbetween. That obviously increases the time taken to do the stamps.
I DID take it out and clean prior to cutting though (vectoring).
Also Epilog suggest that you have two cutlines around the stamps, one for the individual stamp and another to surroung ( fence ) a group of them. Why is this ? Is it really necessary ? At one point it shows two stamps each with their own cutline and fence and says that this is incorrect.
I am quite happy to do it, but just wonder why it is necessary or if indeed it is.
I had no horrid odours but there was a heck of amount of 'dust' in the machine - I can imagine that there will be a lot of cleaning up to do after a session on rubber stamps !
Thanks in anticipation.
Jani
Yesterday I did my first rubber stamps, taking advice from the boards here alongside the epilog pages.
Epilog suggest doing two passes, the first to 'break' the rubber - but I haven't seen that mentioned here. Epilog also gave settings for a 120w machine !
I have figured out that if I do a first pass at 10sp 100 power and then a second at 15sp and 100 I have a really nice outcome (or vice versa).
However I am keen to find out if it is necessary to do them in two passes as I have found I had a bit of flaring on the second pass if I didn't take the rubber out to clean it inbetween. That obviously increases the time taken to do the stamps.
I DID take it out and clean prior to cutting though (vectoring).
Also Epilog suggest that you have two cutlines around the stamps, one for the individual stamp and another to surroung ( fence ) a group of them. Why is this ? Is it really necessary ? At one point it shows two stamps each with their own cutline and fence and says that this is incorrect.
I am quite happy to do it, but just wonder why it is necessary or if indeed it is.
I had no horrid odours but there was a heck of amount of 'dust' in the machine - I can imagine that there will be a lot of cleaning up to do after a session on rubber stamps !
Thanks in anticipation.
Jani