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Couldn't really understand what you needed in the way of a cutting guide. Seems to me that you could use the edge of the head as a guide.<br />
In any event, see if this will accomplish what you need.<br />
I have isolated the head and removed the background.<br />
Then I resampled the image (made it bigger) so that it will fill a full 8.5 x 11 printer page<br />
When printing, you may need to set it to &quot;Adjust to fill page&quot; or whatever wording your printer has.<br />
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Couldn't really understand what you needed in the way of a cutting guide. Seems to me that you could use the edge of the head as a guide.
In any event, see if this will accomplish what you need.
I have isolated the head and removed the background.
Then I resampled the image (made it bigger) so that it will fill a full 8.5 x 11 printer page
When printing, you may need to set it to "Adjust to fill page" or whatever wording your printer has.
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Hi David, thank you for this, on the Roland wide format solvent printer I have, it has a software RIP called Versaworks and I have to dump the image into the RIP in either pdf or eps format, the RIP will look for a cutter guide within the file which should be 100% M 0% C,Y,K and named 'CutContour', when the sofware sees this guide around the face it will automatically cut along that guide.
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Hi David, thank you for this, on the Roland wide format solvent printer I have, it has a software RIP called Versaworks and I have to dump the image into the RIP in either pdf or eps format, the RIP will look for a cutter guide within the file which should be 100% M 0% C,Y,K and named 'CutContour', when the sofware sees this guide around the face it will automatically cut along that guide.

head shot with magenta layer used for cutting guide

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Hi, My wife is going on a hen night and I have a cut and print printer but can't do the graphics. &nbsp;I have attached a picture and want to create a cutter guide and save to eps file so that it prints out at the actual size of a head. &nbsp;Any help greatly appriated.<br />
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Regards<br />
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Simon<br />
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Hi, My wife is going on a hen night and I have a cut and print printer but can't do the graphics.  I have attached a picture and want to create a cutter guide and save to eps file so that it prints out at the actual size of a head.  Any help greatly appriated.

Regards

Simon

Need to create cutter guide around face in picture

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