Labels
Label die-cutting and roll labels: drawing a label die's layout to its cylinder's repeat, kiss-cut through the face material, with the matrix, backing slits, perforations and eye marks a label press needs. A drawing whose industry is Labels offers these tools in the toolbar and in Edit › Tool, with the die-maker's and production tools.
Tools
| Tool | Does | |
|---|---|---|
| Label Layout | Labels across the web and round the die cylinder's repeat (its gear teeth × 1/8 in), the gap around worked out to fill it; kiss-cut or through, edge trims, perforations between rows, eye marks in the side margin | |
| Liner Slit | A backing slit through the liner: straight, zigzag or wave | |
| Registration Mark | Marks a cutter's camera or the press reads, anywhere on the liner | |
| Bridge | Bridges (nicks) in a rule | |
| Edge Notch | A V or U nick in a cut | |
| Tear Strip | Two perforations side by side: a tear-off strip | |
| Contour Cut | A cut round a printed design, a distance out |
Kiss cuts go on the Partial cut layer (layer 3), cuts through the liner on the Cut layer, perforations on the Perforation layer, eye marks on the Registration layer, and the liner's edges and the repeat on the Dimension layer, as a die maker reads them (see Making a Die).
Exports for labels
Digitally printed labels and stickers cut on a print-and-cut machine: see Print-and-cut PDF and EPS (the contour cut as a CutContour or Kiss-cut spot colour), GP-GL for Graphtec cutters, and SVG for Cricut and Silhouette.
Designs in the library
File › Run Parametric… has a Labels folder (see Run Parametric):
| Design | What it is |
|---|---|
| Roll labels | Rectangular, rounded, round or oval labels across the web and round a repeat of the gear's teeth; edge trims, a wavy backing slit, perforations |
| Sheet labels | A sheet (A4, A3, Letter, SRA3 or your own) of labels in rows and columns, centred, with registration marks |
| Wine and bottle labels | An arched-top, shield, scalloped, notched or oval label and a neck label, round a repeat |
| Jar wrap and lid labels | A wrap-around label sized from the container's diameter, and a round lid label |
Machine profiles
Make It (File › Export › Make It, Ctrl+Shift+M, or the Make It button at the top of the window) writes the print-and-cut PDF (Print and cut (PDF, CutContour)) in one click, beside the drawing, after checking the design: see Make It.
File › Export › Export… lists this trade's formats first. File › Send Using Machine Profile sends the drawing to a machine in one click, with the format, options, layer names and pens it needs; those that come with the app for this trade: Vinyl cutter (HP-GL), Zünd Cut Center (DXF), Kongsberg table (CF2), Kongsberg table (DXF), Sample table (HP-GL, a pen a tool), Rule bender (CF2), Rule bender (DDES3), Printer's dieline (PDF), Print and cut (PDF, CutContour), Graphtec cutter (GP-GL). See Export by Industry and Machine Profiles.
See also: Industries and Tool Sets, Tools.