Gimp Vinyl Cutter

We bought a jaguariv plotter for cutting clear bra but i was thinking that we could also use it to cut vinyl graphics.

Gimp vinyl cutter. An application for controlling 2d plotters cutters engravers and cnc machines. Cutting vinyl letters and shapes. Cnc laser cutters vinyl cutters plasma waterjet routers they all will read a dxf file. Prepare the file with the vinyl cutter s bundled program i use roland cutstudio but you can use inkscape or another program.

I m using a roland versastudio 20 vinyl printer cutter. The versaworks software rip software needs an eps file to know what to print. But i don t know if i can output to the plotter from gimp. I have been watching some tutorials about paths and i m getting quite good at manipulating curves and such.

To create my vector file i used inkscape. What results from the cut process is an image cut into the material. When you have your design all set send it to the vinyl cutter. It s free and a must have for all hobbyists.

Anytime i buy a new pc the first software i ll install is inkscape and gimp. That eps file can have very thin hairline lines of a specific color 100 magenta to tell the rip software where to cut. The knife moves side to side and turns while the vinyl is moved beneath the knife. With inkscape open the image file created in gimp.

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. The material is then weeded where the excess parts of the picture are removed. How to take an image file on the desktop and turn it into something that the vinyl cutter will understand.