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9.07.2 PNC Applications with Existing Images

 With MTC, it is even possible to do a print and cut with no printing involved at all! Two such situations are:
(1) Cutting out shapes that have been drawn or stamped by hand and (2) Cutting out printed images from a
magazine, calendar, newspaper, etc.
 Similar to the prior section on Printing from Another Program, the only thing one needs is a rectangle that is
printed or drawn onto the page that encompasses the images you want to cut out. That rectangle could be
pre-printed onto sheets of paper or cardstock to use for stamping or drawing images or it could be printed
onto the paper/cardstock after the images are stamped or drawn or one could even use a rectangular object
to hand draw the boundaries of the rectangle. The important thing is for the corners to be precise right
angles.
 Once you have the rectangle on the page, scan the image into MTC and Pixel Trace. Then rotate the
shapes, as needed, so that the lines of the rectangle are perfectly aligned with the grid on the Virtual Mat.
In other words, make sure the horizontal lines of the rectangle are perfectly horizontal and the vertical lines
of the rectangle are perfectly vertical.
 Perform the PNC process as usual. The corners of the rectangle serve as the registration marks.

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