Lower the media set lever and feed your vinyl through.

Once the set lever is up create the same amount of slack in the vinyl as will be used in your project.

Pull the media set lever back up to secure the vinyl in place.

The push rollers have to be positioned above the grit rollers to avoid movement when the vinyl cutter is cutting.

Position the push rollers inside the edge of the vinyl.

Pull the vinyl so that it completely covers the sensors. Pull it so that there is no slackening in the vinyl.

Secure it on top of the stock shaft with the stopper screws so that it does not fall off or move from side to side.

Setup your file and the vinyl within the software and send to cut.

dxf files, use the drop down box to make them visible dxf file – By default the software will not see. We only have one which will need to be returned).

Plastic application squeegee (this is not essential but will help to push the air bubbles out when you apply your sticker.

Low-tack masking tape (which we can provide).

The materials you can use on the vinyl cutter are vinyl and paper (as long as it is no thicker than 0.25mm). The vinyl cutter blade can cut up to 0.25mm.

Create your design in a vector based program such as Adobe Illustrator.

The software to connect to the vinyl cutter is called Graphtech Studio, this is free software allowing you to download it to your own machine if you would like to: īefore you use the vinyl cutter you will need to The computer that controls the vinyl cutter is located to the right of the vinyl cutter and should only be used for sending your design to the vinyl cutter. If you are able to, it is advised that you take your work (once you have finished with the vinyl cutter) back to your work area as weeding (removing) excess parts of the sticker can take a while. The vinyl cutter is located in the printing area in the design studio on the 1 st floor of the Stockwell Street building. There are three main types of decals/stickers you can make with the vinyl cutter a positive decal is created by removing the background, a negative decal is created by removing the foreground (think of it as a stencil) and a print & cut sticker which is when you print onto vinyl then use the vinyl cutter to cut it out. There are 4 sections to creating your vinyl decals designing your vinyl decal, cutting it on the vinyl cutter, weeding (removing) all excess vinyl that is not needed in your design and applying your vinyl decal onto a surface. It is possible to print images but you must first convert them into vector images.

Makeshift light box ideas: For drawing, animation or photographyĪ vinyl cutter is a computer-controlled machine that uses a small blade to cut out vector graphics.

Medium Risk Power Tools – Metal Bandsaw, Jigsaw, Router, Nail Gun.

LOW RISK POWER TOOLS – DRILL & DOMINO JOINTER.

Low Risk Hot Tools – Heat Gun & Glue Gun.

Vinyl cutter printer