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Thanks for your reply and information. I contacted the company and got a reply, which I'm posting here in case anyone else is interested... 1: To do this, you will most likely need to have some bleed around the shapes you are cutting. The Emblaser will need to work with a vector file of the outline you need to cut and there may be slight variations as a result of the printing process. Our software natively reads illustrator files, but the most recent version is Windows only. A Mac version is in the works. To run it on your Mac, we do offer an earlier version which was converted to OSX as well. 2: The process for you would be the following: 1: scan your sheet 2: import into Cut2D-Laser 3: Use the trace outline tool to created the outline vectors 4: Create the tool path and send it to the Emblaser for cutting 3: Plastics are difficult to cut extremely cleanly with a laser-diode based machine. It can be achieved but depends on some experimentation with laser power. If this is the main use for your machine, I would recommend sending us a sample that we can test before we you buy. This way you will know what to expect.

Hi, I just found your forum regarding the emblaser and enjoyed reading through your updates. I was concidering buying the silver bullet because commercial die cutting is quite costly. I've set up a new business selling graphic art which is is then cut out and placed into a frame. Comes in all different sizes and shapes, which is why commercial die cutting is too costly for me at the moment. I want to have my artwork professionally printed on card and I will cut it out myself using this machine. Do you happen to know how easy and accurate the scan will be at picking up the designs from the paper I have printed on? Also, I noticed burn marks on some of your images that you printed. I'd be printing colour images on white thickish 400gsm paper. WIll it leave burn marks if the paper is laminated? Thanks in advance. Any advice would be much appreciated before I make a purchase.