Design Page Won T List Pixscan Mat

I placed the mat with the printout on my flatbed scanner just a standard size for a4 or letter pages and followed the instructions posted by silhouette america on their faq page.

Design page won t list pixscan mat.

It s a real bummer when the edge of the design runs off your material. We offer free design resources each week and a marketplace which allows graphic designers to register and sell their products. Place your image onto the pixscan mat. Some people use the pixscan mat so they can use scraps and make sure their designs are fully over the material.

Jul 28 2020 silhouette 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. If the mat has lost its adhesive quality either overall or in select areas of the mat and is not holding the material firmly in place during the cutting process the cutting mat will need to be replaced. Pixscan is perfect for digitizing a stamp collection or turning a hand drawn sketch into a cut job. Choose load pixscan image from file and find the location the file was saved when downloaded.

The image should include only the dots. F your cut media is contained within the cut border. Once the photo pops up i get a notice about no calibration profile. F your pixscan mat is flat.

The machine will take in the pixscan mat look for the registration marks and begin cutting your images. F your entire mat is clearly visible in the image. Click the plus icon under the camera calibration section of the pixscan panel. Then you either have to completely redo it or cut the missing piece depending on the material and try to perfectly align it.

Check the mat to see if the adhesive has worn down. Take a picture of the printed calibration page from a bird s eye view and ensure that the calibration dots fill the entire image. I just click on continue without calibration and the photo will load onto the silhouette studio design mat. 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.

F your lighting is even. Save your image to your computer. Finally insert the pixscan mat with the paper you took the photo of in step 1 make sure you don t move this paper after taking the photo. Do not put the page onto the pixscan mat.

Place your paper on the pixscan mat and place it down on the scanner with the left or right edge against the long scanner bed edge. Now you should see the pixscan mat on the screen. For optimal results when photographing the pixscan mat make sure that. Pixscan is perfect for digitizing a stamp collection or turning a hand drawn sketch into a cut job.

Choose the send to silhouette button and adjust your cut settings as needed. Test to see if the concern is specific to the material type by trying an alternate material. Take the picture of the mat at a slight angle.