Silhouette Settings 10mil Laminate

I was playing with settings but i haven t been able to get more than half way through.

Silhouette settings 10mil laminate. I got it to cut 5mil 125microns. I looked at settings and couldn t work out how to get it in the software to go higher. When placing your laminated page on your mat be sure to line up the actual printed page to the guidelines on the mat. Send the design to your silhouette.

The laminate was cut 12 x 12 to fit my cutting mat. I love using coverstock for paper crafts that need more structure to them like these diy paper lanterns decor. I do have a deep cut blade but haven t used it for fear of breaking it. We start with 10 mil.

Go to cut settings and select your cut settings by finding the closest material for your lamination and tweaking it to the best settings load the pixscan mat in to your silhouette portrait cameo and check the blade depth. Has anyone had success with 10mil 250 micron laminate. I started with the 3 mil laminating sheets they also come in 5 mil. I am laminating using 3 mil clear glossy gbc laminate.

Using laminate sheets. Duck brand peel stick clear laminate. I cannot even get coverstock to feed into my printer because it has. Instead i used 3mil laminating pouches which still provided the durability that i needed.

I used the clear sticker material cut setting with only one pass no double cut which was perfect for my 3mm laminating pouches. Silhouette does not list laminate as a materials choice so i had to play around with the settings. Cameo or portrait or curio with my laminator i would need need to cut or print and cut the design first laminate and then cut again. Well i am just wondering before i purchase it if anyone knows whether or not laminating your printed picture before putting it in the machine will mess with the optics.

Only used it because it was salvaged from printing company i found a pretty cluster of leaves pattern from the silhouette store and after taking measurements of my mannequin. I see that the silhouette portrait has the print and cut feature using optics to read the registration marks. For the 3 mil size set your cricut to cut cardstock. Once the cut lines are in place load the pixscan mat into your silhouette just like any other mat and send to the silhouette.

Finally it was time to cut. Cutting laminated shapes and print and cuts with silhouette plus perfect cut settings monday february 22 2016. For the 5 mil you ll want to set the dial to custom and choose posterboard from the menu. Because coverstock is so thick it can be difficult to print on it.

If you have a laminator just load an empty laminate pocket into your machine and let it do its thing. Coverstock coverstock is a heavy cardstock typically 100 120lb in weight.