I understand the Versaworks spot color for contour cut. I understand the contour button on the program. However, I can not figure how to constrict the cutline so I dont need bleed with artwork. On my other software I can tell it to go -.001 offset for example. This technique also helps with pixelated edges of items.
I tried the Chat or send ticket, but it NEVER works for Corel. Hopefully, you here can point me in the right direction.
The truth is that plotters are never 100% accurate and there will always be slight variances between what the cut path says and what the plotter cuts. In diecuts, this is magnified by the fact that the actual printed image will NEVER line up perfectly with the cut path in the real world. Therefore, it is necessary to have at least some amount of bleed on every diecut. I have been doing printing and diecutting for about 15 years now (maybe more) and in all of that time, there has never once been a situation where the cut lined up to the print with the print perfectly. It doesn't happen. Not ever. This is true regardless of the printer or plotter you use. I used Roland printers with built in cutters, HP printers with Graphtec plotters, Mutoh and Mimaki printers with Mimaki plotters, you name it. Even when the print is not removed from Rolands, the cuts, while very close to perfect, are never absolutely perfect and you have to account for that when setting up your file.
In short, this is normal and should be treated as an unavoidable reality of print/cut work flows.
We all know that, which is why the negative cut line. Not all supplied artwork from customers has the bleed or capable of. Hence, that is why this feature has been awesome with my other software.
You're going to need some bleed. There are methods using contours but without seeing the art I cannot tell if it would work.
Not required when this is an option. Been doing this 14yrs with Sai Flexi without issue. How about a yes or no answer is Corel able to handle simple tasks as other software is capable of..... which solves 95% of the obvious issues about bleed being brought up. Corel may not be as powerful as I thought and I may have taken abilities with other software for granted.
Flexi comes in the $400 Starter version, the $3,700 Print and Sign version with a $2,000 Highway Signs collection.
Flexi is a useful but very expensive specialized application and comparison between it and CorelDRAW is a fairly foolish thing. While there are things that Flexi can do that are specialized for cutters and other sign tasks, there are hundreds of things that CorelDRAW can do the Flexi is incapable of. It's not an apple to apple thing.
As far as I know there is not a one click solution in Draw but it can be done with objects like the object shown but maybe 3 or 4 clicks.