I want to xerox a pattern then place it over the transfer paper &amp; trace the pattern onto a piece of dark wood. Is that how this works?
1989404
I have never done that. I think it would work with white transfer paper, though. Why not just try it? I use many kinds & colors of transfer paper for many different projects.
2158453
I am sorry I don't know the answer to that. All I know is it worked for the project I needed. I was able to trace a pattern and a marker did not bleed through. Hope that helps sorry if it does not.
2170841
Yes. You need straight on pic of the design and draft the parts over top of a scanned in picture and then print in paper piecing mode.
1243912
It depends on how your printer processes the paper. On my HP 632C I load the paper glossy side down. To test your printer, take a piece of paper and mark a large "X" on one side. Put the paper in the printer and then print something on it. I can be just be a word or two. If you put the paper in your printer with the side marked with the "X" down, and the word printed on that side, then that would be the correct way to load the photo paper.
452268
Only if you have a flash box with patterns in it. The control box that comes with it has the patterns in it.
1992883
Yes, the file that is created just needs to be saved as an svg file. I have created several files with Adobe Illustrator and then cut them out with the sizzix.
2142028
yes, make sure the surface is clean and the black charcoal is very strong of the paper, when you trace the picture make sure you do slow and harder.
678597
Hi. You have to use the multiplatform and the cutting pad (a pair of two acrilyc pads). Between the acrylics put the paper and the die facing the platform.
691343
it does trace onto wood yes...do you mean so you can burn a design into the wood? If that is what you mean, it should work..
1666779
It transfers colors! I used the pen to transfer logos onto wooden nickels. (Just make sure it's laser printed and not an ink jet printer.) you can also use xylene (got mine at lowes) if you're going to do mass amounts. The pen did about 75 wooden nickels for me. Whereas the xylene did 100 front and back with about 1/4c.
540073
The plexiglass is riveted on and you cannot slide papers beneath it. Your best bet is to use tracing paper, or plain white paper that is translucent. I have also found that having a desk lamp that can be swung over the light box as needed can really help and is quicker and easier than turing the light box on or off to see how your tracing results look as you work.
381660
I have printed ONLY on plain paper - not on photo paper - and "blacks" often print as faded, or downright grey. I would not recommend this for your desired use. (At least, not on plain paper!)
680116
Doesn't work so well with cardstock or photopaper. Usually there is a setting that tells the printer the paper is heavier or glossy but I can't find it if there is. When using cardstock, the print comes out spotted and streaked.
327310
I use Corel Draw and Photoshop to prepare my files. By that I mean, I create my logo, design, etc. in the program (corel draw) and safe it as a low bit PNG file. Then I go over to the Sure Cuts A lot program / screen and import or place the previously created/saved file on the matt (desktop of surecutsalot). The critical part here is, that sometimes the matt does not show the trace / outline image I created, after hitting the cut window button. So you have to play around a little, go back to Corel and adjust, re-save the pic, etc. And redo. It does work for me, but remember.. the more lines, corners, trickiness your design has, this cutter has its limits. Now if you question is, if the Corel opens or works directly with the Cutter, without the SureCutsAlot software, I do not know or have not done that. All in all, if you are good with Corel and play around with creation - import / paste - trace - cut it will take you maybe an hour to figure it all out. The biggest problem I had, was that if the pic / design is not properly traced, even though it shows perfectly on the surecutsalot matt / screen, It will suddenly cut through the middle of your design / vinyl and ruin a big batch of your material. Which was hard, because I hate wasting material. But if that happens, then the customer service recommends to redo/reimport, etc. But even better to create the design in surecutsalot from the start. surecutsalot does not really offer much design play room, so id rather redo. I hope this makes somewhat sense. I love the cutter for the price. And recommend it. Customer Service is American based and very helpful. I believe people get frustrated with the item, because they do not understand the connection between software and cutter. Good luck
2226019
It's not terribly clear, but I manage to trace stuff from my sketchbook to bristol board with this thing. It helps if the lines are really dark, though--like I'll pre-trace the sketch I want to use for my finished piece with a fine-tipped black marker or something before I do it.
88367
Its best to carefully cut them out. Or make a dark background because the wntire paper would be transfered and a white square will appear on it. So cut the white out.
1753677
I'm not sure I can answer that. My interest was in cuting the map's land masses off the map and using them on a piece of canvas to get the sames right. Then I used a glue to paste postage stamps into the sames of the land masses. It was not important to me to get boarder lines correct because it was the world not the contries I was after. See the results. http://texnormanartist.blogspot.com/2014/04/a-stamp-map.html