In this video presentation we're going to create a wall graphic in Job Editor.
The requirements for this job are going to dictate that we crop the image and
then enlarge that crop size to fill a door.
We're also going to be applying tiling to this job. So let's begin with these steps.
I'm going to start by setting my contour cutter and activating for my
Graphtec cutter model. The reason I'm doing this is I am going to eventually
set up a [Tile Dotted Overlap] and generate my tile outlines as cut paths.
So I want to ensure that I have my cutter model selected.
Next I'm going to crop the portion of the image that I need to represent. I'm going to go to [Preview and
Size]. And in my [Crop Size], I'm just going to start out with a basic dimension in
here to give me a starting field. I put my cursor inside that box and I'll move it
to the subject matter where I have to crop. So these three little rock areas here.
I'm just going to adjust this crop. So that I get just that image area.
Now that I've set my crop. I'm going to [Apply].
Now I can clearly see the cropped image.
So this particular cropped area must sufficiently cover a door that's 54" wide.
So my next step now is I want to set my magnification and enlarge the file.
Before I do that, I need to enable tiling. So I'm going to go to my [Tiling Setup] tab,
enable my tiling. And then go back to [Preview and Size] and set my image
size to the 54". If I did not set my tiling, enabled it first, once I set my
size it would exceed my roll size. So I need to accommodate that appropriately.
So I'm going to set in there my 54" for my width. Because I had enabled tiling,
I can now see the line where my tile panel will be. I can further edit
that by going to the [Tiling Setup] tab and if I wanted to split the difference
exactly from the 54", so that these two tile panels were equal size. I would
just type that in manually for my custom tile width. I'm going to set half of my 54" width,
and now we can see I have even tile panels based on my dimensions.
I'm going to set a 1" tile overlap. That's going to set a 1" left and right side
splitting the difference. So that my image area will be allowed to
line up and I could use this visually as an overlap area.
I'm also going to turn on my [Tile Dotted Overlap] marks although I don't need the top, or the bottom, or the right.
I just want to set this for the left panel. In this way I'll have one
mating edge per adjoined tiles and I'm only going to see that mark on one panel of the side.
This is going to help us. So that we don't see the marks showing on the installed print.
Another mark setting I may want to enable is my generate tile outlines for my cut paths.
So what I'm going to do is go to my [Finishing] tab
and in the [Marks] tab.
We're going to notice [Generate Tile Outline Cut Paths]. I'm going to turn on
that feature. What's going to happen is you're going to notice a magenta outline
to the file. This is going to take the any little remaining amount of media is
going to be applied to cut paths and any extra bits of material would be cut away
from my original roll size. So that's a very handy little feature in this case.
Now I've set all my conditions. I'm going to submit this file to the RIP-Queue.
In my print preview panel on the far right side, I can clearly see my 2 evenly spaced tile panels.
Now I will print these files.
Upon printing this file, my cut information has been sent to CUT-Server.
So I'm going to launch CUT-Server software.
You'll notice that application in the top part you can select CUT-Server to launch.
And now for our Graphtech cutter model, we see the cut information. I'm going to select that and we can
clearly see that tile outline generated as a cut path.
At this point, I would take my print, go to my cutter. Ensure my lineup control points. And then the very
bottom I would [Cut Now] now and send this cut information to the plotter
to cut that little extra trim area around the tile outline.
Our final output result will be an installable wall art job that is utilizing the cutter to do the tiling trimming.