How to Print and Cut with Silhouette CAMEO ES Mat

Printing and cutting on the Silhouette CAMEO 5 ES mat is not much different than printing and cutting with an adhesive mat.

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If this is your first time making stickers with the Electrostatic mat, or doing another print and cut, follow along for tips on how to best print and cut with the ES mat.

This tutorial assumes you are already familiar with how to print and cut with Silhouette and that your ES mat has already been set up and you're familiar, in general, with how to use it.

To print and cut with the Silhouette ES mat, you want to start in Silhouette Studio Send panel making sure your software recognizes the connected Portrait 4, CAMEO 5, or Curio 2.

Then move over to the Page setup panel and change the Cutting Mat to "Electrostatic Mat."

From here you an add the images, designs, registration marks and cut lines like you normally would.

You'll also continue on printing like you normally do. Here I was printing on clear sticker paper, which is why you see the white squares on the corner. That's just a hack to help avoid registration mark failure.

Once you have the printed sheet, turn on the ES mat and wait 30 seconds or so for the charge to build.

Place the printed sticker sheet onto the electrostatic mat with the top left corner along the left edge and the top of the paper at the line.

Make sure the sheet is being held in place securely by the electrostatic charge and then gently push the base toward the rollers until you feel resistance.

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Press the Load button on the CAMEO 5 control panel (up arrow) so the rollers grab the ES mat and pull it the rest of the way in.

In the Send panel in Silhouette Studio press Send. The CAMEO 5 will look for the three registration marks before beginning to cut.

When the cutting is complete, press the Unload button (down arrow) on the control panel and the ES mat will slide out from under the rollers.

You can then remove any excess sticker paper around your stickers and you're done!

By using the ES mat, instead of a Silhouette cutting mat, you'll avoid stickers that curl.

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