Hello Apple Valley FabLab students, it's Mr. Lee  and today what I'm going to show you is how to  

print with the print and cut machine. First thing  that we're going to do is we're going to take out  

the, um, vinyl that's in here. What I have is a  heat press vinyl and I'm gonna actually put in  

a vinyl that is for making stickers. So I'm gonna  put my phone in the stand so you can see this.

Okay, so I'm going to take off  this roller and put in the vinyl

for making stickers and you can tell that it's, uh,  a shinier vinyl; the way you can really tell  

is because the backing is paper instead of  plastic, the heat press vinyl has got plastic.  

And then what I'm going to do is, put it in here,

I'm going to slide the paper through and I'll show  you that in a minute. It's gotta cover the sensor  

and the sensor

looks like this; you can see if I open this  up and back this off, that's the sensor right  

there. So we have to cover that sensor and  then these pinch rollers, there's one here  

and then one here, they have to cover the paper;  so I'm going to have that covering right here,  

if you can see that. So that's what I'm  going to do next, and then once that's set,

the printer will measure that distance from  pinch roller to pinch roller and we'll get that  

from the computer, will access the machine.  So when I lift the locking lever up, the

printhead actually moves across to measure

that distance, so now that's good to go. So  the next step is going to be sending the file  

to the printer, and I'll kind of rotate this  so you can see what I'm doing on the laptop.

So what I'm going to do now

is select my image that I want to print and I have  to do a couple things; I have to get information  

on the layout and I selected, I have to get the  width of the vinyl. So it's 18.54 inches wide  

and I had four copies in there, I'm gonna go down  to one, and then I'm gonna up it one at a time.   

It looks like that's gonna fit pretty well. I'm also  going to go to quality, it tells me that it's going  

to take eight minutes for the print. I'm using  white glossy photo paper, that's the sticker paper  

and then I'm going to go down to cut  controls. And I want to select the  

advanced settings because I  wanted to cut out the image  

and you'll see on another video that, that  I have that selected, so that's ready to go.

It also tells me how much vinyl I'm going to use  and that's down in this portion of the screen, and  

it also tells me how much ink I'm going to  use; i'm going to use about 16 cents worth of ink.  

So the next thing is I hit the third button  over and that'll send the image to the machine;  

it takes a minute to do that, so you'll  see that it's actually creating the  

RIP file, and once that's done, then it sends it to  the machine and starts the print. So it's at about  

40 percent, 75 percent, now it's done. The next  thing it's going to do is send it to the machine,

so that tells me the process that it's sending  the file to the machine and then once the  

machine gets the file, the noise you hear right now is  it's actually cleaning the print head, and that's  

kind of a view of the print head underneath.  And then what it does is it picks up ink,  

goes across, electrostatically  dumps that ink onto the vinyl,

and that this is gonna take about eight  minutes; plus it's going to take a few  

more minutes for it to actually cut. So I'm  gonna pause this here, I'll put it back on  

once it's cutting because it's  kind of neat to see it cut.

So here's uh,

the print about half done and it only prints  when it's going from our right to left;

that return trip is just to pick up more ink.  So the ink reservoir is on the right side here  

and then it sprays it out as it goes across; super  accurate. What I'm going to do, I'll pause it again  

and then I'll play it when it's cutting, because  it's actually kind of neat to see the cutting tool.

Okay, so it's almost done printing; what it'll do next once it's done,  

is it'll clean the print head  and then it'll start cutting,

which is pretty, pretty neat to see.  So we only have a couple more trips  

and then the printhead will be, come over and cut  over on the side here. And if you look underneath,  

it's such a precise machine that you cannot  see any ink coming out when it does print. So  

now it's going back and what it's doing now is  cleaning the print head, and now it's cutting.

Let's see if I can zoom in on the cutting head;  

there it is and then it lifts up  when it moves, and then the head comes  

cut and that's it. What we'll do next is we'll put  transfer tape on, cut it off the machine before  

we do that, put transfer tape on; we got to weed it  before we put the transfer tape and then it's done.  

So now the machine's print heads' going back, it's going to eject the

vinyl and then we'll cut that off.

Okay so now what we're gonna do is we're gonna  take, uh, this vinyl that we've printed on our print  

cut machine and we're gonna weed it, and weeding  with this is really fast. I'm going to use just a  

picker to do that; I'm going to pick out one corner  and the, if the cut pressure was right, all we do is  

we just kind of lift it up and it comes right  off, so that's been weeded. I kind of like that.

Then the next thing that we're going to do  is we're going to put the transfer tape on,  

and like I did in the vinyl sticker  

video, this one; we're going to do the same  thing. We're going to lay the vinyl flat,

and sorry for the bells, once it's flat, then  what I'm going to do is take the stickers  

and put them on upside down and lay it so that  they hit middle first. So I'm going to go like that  

and kind of let the middle hit first, and then  I'm going to rub it out with our spatula tool

and then I can cut off the end,

and flip that over. I'll just kind  of make sure all the bubbles are out,  

and this is ready to go. So what I'll  do is I'll probably use, I have a  

paper cutter for trimming things up, but we'll cut  out one so you can kind of see what the finished  

sticker will look like, and then you can also trim  up the transfer tape on both sides, on all sides,  

and there's my sticker. And so this can do  full quality images with this print and cut  

vinyl cutter. It's a pretty neat machine and  that's all we got for today. Have a nice day.