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hello everybody and good afternoon thank you for joining us on this webinar I hope you can all hear me okay like one of you could just pop a little comment into the chat box just to let me know that the audio is all working okay that would be great and so we're here today to talk about the process of printing on a pretty only device a little bit just a quick introduction to the laminating part of that process and then putting it in a gr cutter so one of our only devices one of the larger ones that we do in this video we're going to be using the 640 models of the 64 inch great thank you for coming there Connie and I am joined today by Dan Latham who is a specialist who's a bit of a whiz on this process so he's joining me today to talk through this and the chat box that hopefully you can all see on your screens you can use to interact with us to talk with us you can ask questions throughout the webinar if we see them pop up we'll try and answer them as they come up if not there will be a bit of a question answer session at the end of this where you can ask extra questions we'll hang on and have a bit discussion and we can pop up all the questions on the screen so that you can you can see what we're all talking about otherwise hopefully you guys can all hear hear and see everything okay there is a little bit of a lag during live webinars so if it is running a little bit behind we'll just try and talk slowly through things but it should sort of catch up and you should still be able to understand what's going on hopefully if there are any problems again just shove it in the chat box and we'll try and answer those so crack on we've got a little video that we're gonna be talking through here which goes through the process and we'll pause at the relevant points and Dan's going to take the lead on this workflow and yeah if any of you guys are got questions he'll need to ask so yeah yeah most people now I feel going to provide one of the machines they could go down the route of buying a pretty cup if they want to go down the river or having a different type of like Dutch environment you could buy a machine and begin being in tech but really understand how we're going to be looking just at the process of having a print only device and vice versa using clips to do so from the last webinar we found that we needed having cuts to do as a way of doing cutter leads as well so we hired about one on at the end as well pretty simple same sort of weight if you just have to save the artwork um okay just the audio yeah just turned it up hopefully you guys can hear okay so let's start this one through so what I'm doing now is I'm just showing that I've got the RA and the gr those are the two machines we're using at the moment so as I go into our artwork afterwards all I'm doing here it's just setting up the width and the height of the artwork itself so you and have this specific to whatever design you want so here what I'm doing is I'm adding the crop marks within bursar works this is standard with an arbor it all it is is just registration marks no visual oh you should be seeing what we are seeing so they should be seeing the birds visual or is it just a bit of lag as I said they could be that it's a bit of a lag there have you all got no visual just seen that Justin's pop that up there got it yeah so as I said there is sometimes a little bit of a lag I can depend on your internet connection as well as ours so we are hard-wired into Islands and so should be pretty good but um I said it can't it can't have a bit of a lag so hoping I'll catch up in the video I did try and sort of circle what I'm sort of doing and you can gather what it is because we did we recorded it quite a good resolution anyway so you really see all the fun on the tech so from what we did there is we can added a job in and then from there all I did was go in change the size of the artwork and then I'm going into adding crop marks so just continuing on from there just a side note when you added the crop marks I noticed that there's no crop marks in the visual inverse alerts is that that's because the machine adds the cut marks not versa work so the visual won't change but they will still be printed yeah exactly that okay so let's see what I did next okay so this is just me adding in certain position I can always Center this on the media if this was like my only job that I was doing but I was just giving it a bit of space from the edge of the media itself with our media clamps go down okay so at that point there the job is pretty much ready to go you can see on there at shows cut lines as well obviously being a printing machine but won't use that it's just going to print the job and I've set everything up as I want to then so let's see what we're going to next at that point I rip the job and then print it out hopefully we put in the right wattage oh the next bit should be it printing there we are so on the RF at the front there you can see we just saw broken this little print down a little bit but it's putting the crop marks on the front and line there you can see the two dots and that little black line as well which is used when you put the the print back into a device to register how straight it is within the device yeah because it should be the same thickness as the cutting strip on your machine so on the gr that is the thickness so we go coming on out now I'm just giving it a bit of speed up their words just so that cuz there's the paper center at the back of the GRE was that it's just so that that doesn't over trip it and say that there's no media so I just put out a little bit more than I need to and at this point just trim it off just do a cheek cut that's amazing you know you can see this is why I got down to this bit when he's got much bigger so this is what we go through into the laminating processes that we've got back and chew on this another minute if you we aligned it to the right size to say we're going to do like a job that is 64 inches long or as wide as that media we wouldn't have to get back and cheap yeah put it straight through yeah when laminating if you're laminating roll to roll then you can laminate much larger quantities at once if you're just laminating a small piece of print like we are here you can see that on the on the bed of the laminator we've just put some backing sheet force upon some vinyl so the laminate won't be sticking to the laminate rolls and we're just gonna put the little one piece and yet so I'm using a tack rag here this is a real weird feel to it all your bits doing it just picking up any sort of bits of dust it's almost like using a microfiber cloth but just with a coating on it so this is it just going through nice and easy really slow and that's giving it the lamb towards the end so that point I would add a sheet go now for the back just trim it off and now I'm adding it into the gr itself so at the moment I've got those registration marks so you can see there and I'm lining it up on the cotton strip left and right and it's just those two dots line it up as it is I don't know I'm doing that is I'm gonna press ENTER a whole pinch you can do it on enter or pinch and it's just set up and now the clamps will go down on the gr as well you can also set up if you just want the outside ones to pinch or if you want them better once the pinch started reading the whip so what I want to do now is I want to set it up so that I see I've found in the time is almost like a little tip if you align the margin or I just jump ahead that one there stop there that perfect place to put the play button there but you've got to make sure on the GRS anyway that it has the sensor mode because you have automatic you've got sensor and then you've also got a manual mode so if you're troubleshooting you can put a little pen tool and a manually select each corner of the registration marks on the G I'll just make sure it's on a sensor mode that's then when you send your job through Birsa works it will come out and find it automatically so that's just carry on with that one so there we go this is what I did next the next thing I did is I moved it over so that me the knife itself the it sorry the contour cut blade that is over the registration mark just so that it knows where to start with straight away because if you do it from the far left hand side you've got that bit of media on the edge back and then it will try and scan it further in and it won't find it so that's space I've got wide in the next is I actually moved it over to do a test cut yes so when cutting through a job that's been laminated obviously it's got double thickness of material so you might need to up the pressures so this is why band is just doing a little test cut here to check that the blade will cut through okay yeah so I think I had just a little bit just because it's going through a laminate because before this was set up just a little bit more maybe I pushed a little bit so what we're doing now is I'm going back into verse works so one bit noticed on here is I'll just stop it here Oh done on one go okay so so what this for here is if you look on the left hand side you can see where I've got my machines are listed along the top if you were sorry in but using a GI you have to drag-and-drop the job from one to the other Kubrick can be moved over and it has to be a ripped job but this the default layout but versa works does it in the tabs at the top not one on top of the other one on top of each other so what I'm doing here is I'm just changing the layout of verse whoops so it's easy to drag and drop over so you see now it then moves it over so you've got a cute which one that you just pour in there words that's setting in job setting so in the options in the preferences for verse works is show jobs for in printers rather than show job for selected printer only as John selected there which means that it splits the previews for you everything look a little bit more tidy so you can see there and there's even the little blue font at the bottom that says can only be dragged and dropped over so that now I was now added into the gr cube so in here it's already picked up all my cut lines which is already there so you saw it in the last video where I added it and then in here you can change the cup pressures and forces if you want to or you can do it which is on the machine itself you can change the cut for operation and it like that I've set mine up on the machine itself there's no need to change it in versa works so at that point there just print and rip and this is it come on on over just see it'll start to look for the crop marks so that's the optical I coming out there might be able to see just a little red dot that's just picking up it'll go left at the rope and then it will go the two of the front sometimes you may get it so that it says crop mark era or like the skew that isn't normally down to not being put in straight so like I said about that little tab that you've got that has to be directly in line with the cutting strip so there we go so that's found those marks and then it's got data from versa works and it's now cutting it up one thing to note as well if you wanted to do a perfect cut or a perforation cut at the same time of doing this the RIP will process all of the cut lines first and then towards the end it'll ask you on an ER itself to move the pen to the front because on the grr perforation cut is separate from the contour cuts to save the cutting strip from being damaged so it goes over like a little gap so it all asking who depend from the back towards the front and then you can carry on an LD the perforation cut but in this video we only did comp oka look good stickers then Cory any of you have any questions so far yeah fire them away and probably could have sped up this section of the video just watching it cut for a minute but if you have any of you guys have got any questions feel free to ask then where we go we're all finished now is a good time no question popped up there so that's why the question sports response now what can you produce using this technique um with print laminate and cut you can do this you can do this on a print and cut device the benefit of doing it by splitting the processes is that your printer can carry on printing whilst you're cutting for most people it tends to be that having them you know your devices combined so having a print and cut device tends to work better it saves on manual labor it means you can leave your machine to do the work but people who tend to do a lot of printing it does tend to or people who people want to just keep printing whilst it's cutting they can split it also with the gr cut it can cut faster and stronger 500 yeah so if people are cutting particularly hard to cut materials you're looking at motorcycle graphics mainly so if you're gonna do like go-kart in graphics like you could do your prints you could do your laminates and then straight on put it on the gr you can put it down with a different force if you're focused and blacks played in there and go through thicker substances as well yeah yeah and another question they're older yes and for iOS people I thought you didn't say there can you print with that machine then laminate then bring it back to the machines but yes Paul which guys so is similar to this process in this process we're showing using a separate cutter um but in order to do print laminate and cut it's a similar process inverse works you add your crop box in the marked tab you set in the job print only and then you put it back into the Machine a line as we were just here and then send the job cut only and it will reg it it will look for the registration marks because you still have that box selected in verse works we could actually do a webinar on this a few weeks ago which we're we're waiting to put up online so it will be accessible to all of you so Paul if you keep an eye out on our website as soon as we have that section available you'll be able to watch the old webinar where we did on our honor point cut device yep cool this one I have to go back a little bit on them yeah you definitely don't want to be using your scissors yeah yeah in order to do it it's just the same registration process except you're doing it on the same device the marks look exactly the same so so yeah here we go now all I'm doing is just proving that I actually did cut it it wasn't loads of different videos together so they get premium quality so so that was the way of doing it through versa works so that would be done through verse one jewel so that you are never if you bought the older GX cutters this is same process just unless it works if you've got an older machine another pair you can still use it and if you can't cross between is using new cutter with an older machine something like that but you can always get a lot of humanity X so the next bit will go into is from one of the questions that we can add in the last webinar where it was how you do it through cups to do so cups to do is the free piece of software that comes with your machine and what it does is it has the option within it to add crop marks so what you do is you do it within illustrator or your design package so using coral or Adobe Illustrator there is a plugin for cups to do that does it within the design so let's have a look here so you can see now I'm within I'm within illustrator and that is the cup studio plug-in that you can see there to do it on at speed so here we go so there's the job that we've just done you can see there that the crop marks on all four corners so the first thing I want to do is just select your machine so it gets on there the list of them so you can use your GX isn't even cxas machines and then there's a little button in there for crop marks and once you've pressed that button and it adds these for crop marks the corner you can also add three instead of four if you want to is just more accurate using four at that point we want to do is just save your job as a new pair to a PDF file and then print it out on your machine on whatever you've got or mine sticker once you've done this point here you will press basically the button at the top that looks like a little cut studio icon and what that does then is it will open up the cut studio software that's included with your machine and then you're seeing corners that there are these registration marks so it's the same principle where you print it out move it over to your cutter and then align it back up again at this point here you can see where I'm going up to the cutting block I'm saying right I'm ready to go you can see that I've got all of my cut lines in here that is because cut studio is picking up every single lung as individuals so you can see that's all live within the design but within my design on illustrator I gave the cut line on the outside so what I'm doing there is I'm just selecting my color that I want to come and knock up so I want to cut the magenta line and not the black line at that point there you just click go and it will find your marks again and then you're ready to go again it will do exactly the same thing except it's not using first words to do the bow [Music] so that is pretty much it all of us works and cuts to do and with us to print laminate and cut perfect so if any of you guys have got any questions that's it for the the process that we're showing we just hold on here for five or ten minutes and kitchen C case anybody's got any further questions if you do pop them in the chat box will ping them up onto the screen so everybody can see them and we'll try and answer them yep what's the neck webinar on then Joe the next webinar we're doing is based around the smaller GES cutter which is a 24 inch cut and we're gonna be looking at how you can start a business using just that device so if you're looking to dip your toe into the water and get involved in print slash cutting or vinyl in the industry then that's a perfect machine to do and we're doing that in a couple of weeks so looking at ya the smaller D s cutter so if you coached you do is in a box of your cutter itself if you want a like another copy of it because because there's no like dongle or license to go with it it's just goes with your machine if you just contact us ourselves we've got a tech support team we're going to send it over to you we've got no problem with it as long as you can give us a serial number of your cutter you actually got one and you did the software then yet we'll send it on out to you there's no problem it's just a little exe file install it and it's good to go we have a download website that always keeps up-to-date Japan pretty spot-on with it seeing where the plug-in itself that's done through Adobe extensions and also on our download website you could have a plugin for cop they don't even have an online store we shall see that hopefully now answers your question another question here will we be doing any further webinars yes we'll be at the moment we're doing these every two weeks and we depending on how they go we might look to do them a little bit more often as well and at the moment we've done maybe eight or nine I think webinars now I will just just put this little backlog at the moment that we're building a section on our website to host them all so that you will be able to look back through the older webinars as well soon we're just working on developing that at the moment we don't have a schedule at the moment but if you go to our website so Roland DG co uk and you go to the top to the academy section there is a webinar page and that will just show the next one or two webinars that are coming up as I said at the moment there's sort of every two weeks normally on a Thursday around three o'clock so keep keep an eye out on the website obviously if you want to be in contact with us and you want to receive updates you can always email us to allow email communication and we'll ping out emails to you at any one point in which you have a new webinar coming up but at the moment we've done done about eight and hopefully we're going to be doing more and more based around products applications a bunch of stuff released so in case anybody has any suggestions on what you would like to see in future webinars feel free to get in touch with us and suggest them is it posted on our Facebook yeah we had we had a on our on the roland DG UK facebook page we did a did a little video on there just asking people to to suggest content which is where the subject of this webinar came from so yeah feel free to get in touch with us via social media or by the website and tell us what you'd like to see oh cool so we've got another question here from Paul so as a starting point more pressure should I look at you then on the SPI with love okay so this will depend though on the blade and like a blade holy or using because if so say then you're using a roland blade with a blade holder on it as well and it's a brand new one like we were using on the GR we were looking at about 270 grams of force of what we were on to go through laminate as well if you're just going through a VAR know you only look for a new style blade anyway yeah 270 I don't it really depends on the condition of the blade as well so how old your blade is and if so it depends on what film you're cutting but you know a normal say polymeric medium grade high grade vinyl with matching laminate you just just pins on what your set up just just the vinyl you're probably looking between 50 and 100 grams force and then you're probably looking at potentially double that because you just you somebody is quite high but it could mean that the blades just a little bit worn it could mean the cooldown so it wasn't as easy to cut there's a few different variables within there look bit of something like that as well if you're going to use like a motorcycle graphic at the same time you want to slow down something that Dan will miss maple or mentioned throughout that webinar as well was perfect so if you do perf cut on your print and cut device on a separate cutter you will all cut into your cutting strip and overtime that would get damaged which will also affect the pressures of your blade you might need to start upping the pressures quite a lot and you may get start to get patchy cuts if that happens you can get new cutting strips which you just lay into the relay into the groove which will give you a brand-new fresh cutting surface to cut into and that would be on your going to have your cutting machine on the GR another question there let's pop that up to six any preferred angle for the blade depends yeah the standard blades coming up 45 degrees the sunglass blade for example I think is a 60-degree blade yeah and if I just jump over into the wait a minute just give me one second if you've got a hope you guys can see on the screen here I'm drawing with my mouse so forgive the wonky drawing if I have a 45-degree angle blade for example as you can see here the cutting depth of my blade is this distance here okay and so this is my blade and this is the cutting distance if I have a 60-degree blade you effectively so this is Mike this is the angle 45 I've now increased the angle to 60 yeah they give the terrible drawing it means that the distance of my cutting edge has increased so if you are going to be cutting deeper thicker materials then you hire a larger angle caning you mean a sort of sharper point at the end which can lead to a better result on picker materials and then a 30-degree I can't say I've ever cut with one myself but again you know you're going to have a shallower blade edge in effect before it agrees to stand and that's what most people use the most output but again if you're cutting things like reflective or sunglass materials or Dan mentioned earlier motocross graphics things like that really thick laminates then you might want to use a higher degree angle to give you that that extra sort of cutting depth hope that answered your question yeah okay well if if there's no other questions we'll finish up thanks for joining us today and as I said keep an eye on the website well they will be hosting the webinars in future and if you've got any feedback or anything please do get in touch by the website and thanks again for joining us enjoy the rest of your afternoon [Music] you