Liene PixCut S1 Controlling Size

 I bought a Liene PxiCut S1 printer for my girlfriend to print stickers.  She loves it.  It's pretty small and pretty neat to watch it work.

However, the makes of the software put very little effort into being able to carefully control the size of your stickers.  If you're just printing them for vibes, that's fine I guess.  But I wanted to make stickers to go on top of some game cards.  They need to be very close to the size of the actual icons I'm trying to cover up on the game cards.

I don't know if I'm stupid, but wow did this take more work than it should have!

I ended up creating this thing:

I'm not sure what Blogger might be doing to the resolution of this image.  You want it to be 840x1600 pixels. 

The yellow and cyan bars are the keys.  The blue and magenta blocks were for my own testing.  

You ca take this image, delete the green and magenta boxes, put in your own stuff that you want to be carefully controlled knowing that the bars should print 70 mm wide and 150 mm tall.  

I find the "grid" feature in GIMP to be pretty useful.  I set the grid size to 60x60 and it looks like this:

Once you have your image how to like it, and can export it and upload it to the Liene app.  From the Liene app, line up the top left corner of the yellow bar at 10x10 (switch the display to mm if it's in inches).  The bottom right corner should be at 160x80.

I've never owned a Cricut, but I think I would have been better off getting one than this sticker printer.  But here we are.

Anyhow, happy printing!