Examples would be Roland Cut Studio with our Roland products including the Roland GX24, and the Roland Pro Series vinyl cutters, Cutting Master Pro comes with all our Graphtec cutters including the Graphtec CE5000 series cutters, the Graphtec Craftrobo Pro, and the Graphtec FC8000 series. All cutters sold by USCutter come with bridge software. This is also known as “bridge software” as it “bridges” the gap between your design software and the vinyl cutter. For this function you need the type of software I mentioned, cutting software. In other words you cannot send the file to the cutter as you could send it to your desktop printer. Most design software however cannot cut the design that you created. Doing this type of design takes special software such as Adobe Illustrator, Corel Draw, and Inkscape to name a few. One is a design program that allows you use different fonts(typestyles) of different sizes, and allows you to manipulate those fonts by stretching, bolding, outlining, arcing, shadowing etc as well as adding shapes and importing designs and logo files from other sources to incorporate into your design. This is important because the process of actually creating a design and using the cutting software to cut the design on the vinyl cutter is more complex than actually making the sign.Ī few important things to note that will be helpful in understanding the process: There are two kinds of software needed to actually cut a design on a vinyl cutter. Most of USCutter’s prospective customers are not graphic designers currently using professional design software like Adobe Illustrator or Corel draw. I’d like to share with you some of the biggest misconceptions prospective owners have about what is involved with cutting vinyl so I make it easier for some who are about to invest in a new vinyl cutter. I have been taking sales and support calls from prospective buyers of vinyl cutters as well as owners of vinyl cutters for five years now.