What Is AAS (Automatic Aligning System)?

When printing and cutting material, the material is printed using a printer and cut with a cutting machine. To do so, the printing position and cutting position must align perfectly.

This means printing with crop marks (images) around the graphic, and then scanning the crop marks using the cutting machine to align the positions before cutting. In this manual, this alignment function is called the Automatic Aligning System (AAS).

There are multiple methods for automatically aligning the positions.

The following two methods are the most typical.

  • Adding crop marks in VersaWorks before printing and cutting
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    Add the mixed printing and cutting data to the job.
    Add crop marks and print using the printer.
    Load the crop mark data, and then output the cutting data.
  • Adding crop marks using the AAS plug-in (for Adobe Illustrator/CorelDRAW) and then printing via VersaWorks and cutting via the printer driver
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    Create the data, and using the AAS plug-in to add crop marks.
    Add the data with crop marks to the job.
    Perform printing only using the printer.
    Output cutting data via the printer driver.