Cutting apparatus

A cutting apparatus comprising:

• a support that supports a medium made of a transparent material, the medium including a front side and a back side opposite to the front side;
• a print head that performs printing on the medium supported on the support;
• a cutting head that cuts the medium supported on the support;
• a printing controller that performs control to cause the print head to face the front side of the medium and print an image and a crop mark on the front side;
• a cutting controller that performs control to cause the cutting head to face the medium and cut the medium;
• a memory that stores a cut line provided for the image and along which the medium is to be cut by the cutting head when the medium supported on the support is placed, with the front side facing upward;
• and
• a crop mark detector that detects the crop mark;
• wherein
• the crop mark includes a first crop mark and a second crop mark;
• the printing controller includes a crop mark print controller that prints the first crop mark on the front side of the medium with a first color and then prints the second crop mark over the first crop mark with a second color different from the first color, the second crop mark being smaller in size than the first crop mark such that the second crop mark is located inside the first crop mark;
• and
• the cutting controller includes:
• a front/back determiner that determines that the medium supported on the support is placed, with the front side facing upward, when a pattern including the first crop mark and the second crop mark overlapping one another is detected by the crop mark detector, and determines that the medium supported on the support is placed, with the back side facing upward, when the first crop mark is detected by the crop mark detector and the second crop mark is not detected by the crop mark detector.

A cutting apparatus comprising:

• a support that supports a medium made of a transparent material, the medium including a front side and a back side opposite to the front side, the front side having an image and a crop mark printed thereon;
• a cutting head that cuts the medium supported on the support;
• a cutting controller that performs control to cause the cutting head to face the medium and cut the medium;
• a memory that stores a cut line provided for the image and along which the medium is to be cut by the cutting head when the medium supported on the support is placed, with the front side facing upward;
• and
• a crop mark detector that detects the crop mark, wherein
• the crop mark includes:
• a first crop mark printed on the front side of the medium with a first color;
• and
• a second crop mark printed over the first crop mark with a second color different from the first color, the second crop mark being larger in size than the first crop mark such that the second crop mark covers the first crop mark;
• and
• the cutting controller includes:
• a front/back determiner that determines that the medium supported on the support is placed, with the front side facing upward, when the second crop mark is detected by the crop mark detector and the first crop mark is not detected by the crop mark detector, and determines that the medium supported on the support is placed, with the back side facing upward, when a pattern including the first crop mark and the second crop mark overlapping one another is detected by the crop mark detector.

A cutting apparatus comprising:

• a support that supports a medium made of a transparent material, the medium including a front side and a back side opposite to the front side, the front side having an image and a crop mark printed thereon;
• a cutting head that cuts the medium supported on the support;
• a cutting controller that performs control to cause the cutting head to face the medium and cut the medium;
• a memory that stores a cut line provided for the image and along which the medium is to be cut by the cutting head when the medium supported on the support is placed, with the front side facing upward;
• and
• a crop mark detector that detects the crop mark;
• wherein
• the crop mark includes:
• a first crop mark printed on the front side of the medium with a first color;
• and
• a second crop mark printed over the first crop mark with a second color different from the first color, the second crop mark being smaller in size than the first crop mark such that the second crop mark is located inside the first crop mark;
• and
• the cutting controller includes:
• a front/back determiner that determines that the medium supported on the support is placed, with the front side facing upward, when a pattern including the first crop mark and the second crop mark overlapping one another is detected by the crop mark detector, and determines that the medium supported on the support is placed, with the back side facing upward, when the first crop mark is detected by the crop mark detector and the second crop mark is not detected by the crop mark detector.