How To Use The Pixscan Mat To Cut Vinyl

Pixscan mats are great for precision.

How to use the pixscan mat to cut vinyl. If you have used silhouette s print and cut feature like how i used with my. Learn how to use the silhouette pixscan mat to help you get precise and accurate cuts on pre printed items scrap materials hand drawn art and more. What does this mean. Most basically a cutting mat is a lined piece of plastic that has one sticky side.

Silhouette pixscan cutting mat for use with cameo pixscan technology allows you to cut precisely around any printed image or position cut lines in a specific location on your material using a camera or scanner. It will open with a brief tutorial. Basically it is a cutting mat with registration marks built right into the mat. Cardstock or white stick paper.

Print the labels and trim down to about an 8 10 size. It is quite simple to use and frankly makes cutting out a printed project or print and cut image seem even easier to cut out. When you use pixscan mobile you can take a picture of an image on the pixscan mat trace it and edit it in the app and cut it out. What is a cutting mat and why use it to cut htv.

Pixscan mats are used with silhouette cameos to hold your vinyl htv card stock or other material in place while being cut by the cameo after you have used a photograph to know exact placement of material and designs. The pixscan mat comes with its own registration marks which allows it to use the silhouette s optical scanner to find the right place to cut. The point of the sticky side is to let you stick your material here heat transfer vinyl onto the mat which holds it in place. First download the pixscan mobile app on your device.

Pixscan technology cuts according to an image s actual size. First things first what is the pixscan mat. Canning mason jar labels download the set i created here step one. Use the standard photo size not square.

If you haven t heard of the pixscan mat and what it can do to put it simply it is basically a cutting mat with pre set registration marks on it. Place on your pixscan mat and take a photo with your phone or camera. You then load the cutting mat and your material into the cutting machine and voila.