Small Vinyl Cutter Reminders

Other Reminders

Vinyl Cutter (Small)

1. Use the program Sure Cuts A Lot 4 Pro, on the MacBook
   1. Note, the mac has a sticker on the lid, "VCarve Computer"
   2. The Vcarve computer has both a windows and mac partition.
   3. Hold down the alt key while booting to get a menu to select, boot into mac.
2. Install BT Material (BT? Pretty sure this means vinyl)
   1. Physically insert the vinyl into the vinyl cutter
      1. Take cutter offline using "On Line" Button
      2. Adjust Rollers
         1. Lift lever on back of cutter
         2. Move material
         3. Press lever down
      3. Any unused rollers, lift lever
3. Use arrow button to zero head
   1. Crosshairs button in center of arrows resets zero to current location
   2. Zero location should be in lower, right corner of material
4. Press the "On Line" button again to bring the machine online.
   1. make sure the screen says "on line"
5. Back to MacBook
   1. Preview button, at top right
   2. Click the "Cutter" button, at top right
      1. dialog pops up
      2. usually take defaults
6. when [cutting is?] complete, lift roller levers & remove [material?]
7. "weed" the vinyl (peel away the material you don't want)
8. transfer tape
   1. The idea is that you stick the vinyl letters or design to the tape, that is the adhesive side of the transfer tape is pressed against the non-adhesive side of the vinyl.
   2. Then you use the tape to peel the vinyl design off the backing, exposing the adhesive side of the vinyl design.
   3. Then press the adhesive side of the vinyl against whatever you want to stick it to.
   4. Buff the transfer tape very hard when applying it.