Vinyl Cutter
Model: Roland GR-640 CAMM 1
Serial:
Ace: Needed (Makerhub@georgefox.edu).
Description
Vinyl cutting is the process of cutting graphics out of vinyl to make adhesive vinyl applications. The maker hub has a Roland GR-640 cutter. It cuts larger format vinyl than the BN-20 Vinyl Printer, but does not have printing capability. It is used to make stickers/cutouts for applications such as signage, vehicle graphics, apparel, etc. The vinyl cutter is used primarily at George Fox for cutting vinyl sheeting, but can cut other materials if needed for a specific project, see this application page
Documentation
The User's Manual covers many basic things about the GR-640. It has instruction on cutting, maintenance, and calibration. Select the Basic Edition for easy access to these topics.
Terminology:
- Weeding: the process of removing unwanted material from the cut sticker
- Graphic: the chosen image/picture to be formatted and cut
- Adobe illustrator 2017: used to prep the graphic for cutting
- Roland Cut Studio: used to finalize the format of the graphic and send it to the vinyl cutter for cutting
Training
Sticker making is the most frequent use of the vinyl cutter. Uploaded graphics can be in any format, but .pdf is preferred. This is due to the vector format of .pdf files, and lets them be uploaded directly to Roland Cut Studio. Other formats need to be converted to vector form in Adobe illustrator 2017.
Demonstration:
The student will first choose a 2 in. x 2 in. graphic and upload into Ai. They will then need to properly format it and send it to RCS. Using RCS, they will finalize and cut the graphic. To finish they will weed the sticker and apply it to transfer paper. They can then choose to save the sticker for later or immediately apply it to a medium of their choice.
General Use: