About Cutting
The term “cut” is used in multiple ways in the Color & Cut system. To help you avoid confusion, the terms as used are defined here:
Cut | The standard Microsoft Windows “Cut” command, which means |
| removing an object from its current location and temporarily |
| storing it for later retrieval. (This term is not used in this chapter.) |
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Cut out | The action of cutting out objects or text using the plotter cutter |
| inside your printer. The cutter follows the shape of the object or |
| text. An object that is cut out cannot be printed. |
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Cut out | The action of cutting out a label that has been framed. You apply |
frame | a frame to a label using the Label Properties options (See Adding |
| a label frame - |
| edge of the frame line. |
| Also, when you apply the Supply Saver option or are printing |
| multiple copies, the system performs this action automatically. |
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Cut | The action of cutting around an object that is enclosed by a cut |
bounding | bounding box. The plotter cutter cuts the box shape, not the shape |
box | of the object inside it. |
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To produce or to output the contents of the current file. For the | |
| Color & Cut system, the labels in a file may include both printed |
| objects and cut out objects, even though print objects may only be |
| printed and cut out objects may only be cut out. |
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Shear | A straight cut through the tape and liner that separates the output |
| label from the remaining tape supply. |
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Weeding | A cut around the outside of a cut text object. |
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The Color & Cut system is equipped with a plotter cutter, which means the system can:
zCut out objects that you have designated as a Cut out Object on the Insert Object screen. The cutter cuts out the actual shape of the object.
