Print & Cut without Registration Marks

Modified on Tue, 14 Jan at 2:01 PM

If you have a printed job without registration marks it is still possible to print and cut using one of the following methods:

1. Align with sheet edges (least accurate)

Create a job where the page size is equal to your sheet and your design is correctly positioned.

Open Material Manager and select 'Media edge' under the camera profile for the material you will be using.

Output the job, select 'Send design relative to origin' and then select 'Align with sheet edges'.

The machine will use the camera to find the sheet edges and determine where it needs to cut.

2. Fake registration marks (most accurate)

Manually create registration marks you normally use in the cut file and position them randomly on easy recognizable parts of the print, for example the right angle of a letter or rectangle.

There must be at least 3 or more and are spaced across the cut file.

The registration marks must be recognized in SGP as normal.

Output the job as usual and manually go to the first mark location.

Line up the crosshair in the viewfinder with the position you placed the first registration mark on (1).

Use 'Current location' (2) and repeat the process until all registration marks are located.

This way we trick the system in thinking there are marks on the printout.

The machine will now know where the print is positioned and will determine where to cut.