Instructions for Vinyl Cutter in SC 102.
To Start Vinyl Cutter.
To Load vinyl:
- Remove the knife, and make sure that about 1 mm of knife is
protruding from the knife holder. Replace.
- Depress the loading lever on the back left of the cutter to raise the rolling wheels.
- Load the vinyl from the back. If it is a roll, place it on the rotating tray
in the back of machine.
- Set the rolling wheels to desired location. Both wheels must be under white tape.
Raise the loading lever up to lock material in place.
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Press "menu" on the keypad twice. Press enter to set up material. Select sheet or roll and press "enter again"
- Move cutting head with the arrows located on the keypad. Send it to desired location.
Hold down the origin key about one second to set 0,0.
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To print from a bitmap image:
- Create a png bitmap file, either black&white or grayscale.
- To start the printserver, double-click the shortcut "start mods server" on the desktop. A command window will appear, with the text “listening for connection from client address 127.0.0.1 on server port 1234”.
- Open the webpage, currently an icon on the desktop named "cut%20png.html
- Select png file.
- Adjust scale (by changing pixel density), force, speed and other parameters.
- Calculate
- Send to file to printer.
Things to do on the vinyl cutter:
- Plain stickers. Learn to use transfer paper. Learn to weed unwanted sticker material.
- Multi-color, multi-layer stickers.
- Circuits. Search fab class website for much advice on this.
- Use the double-stick film to make your own adhesive-backed film and cut
stickers from the material of your own choosing, e.g. your favorite paper.
- Heat transfer material for "iron-on" stickers.