Specially-designed to harmoniously work with Roland DG products, Roland DG CutStudio™ (included) allows you to quickly, easily, and effectively enlarge, reduce, reposition, rotate, and mirror images.
Roland DG CutStudio™ (included) allows you to cut TrueType® fonts without the need for outlining and vectorisation tool generates cut lines from any JPEG or Bitmap image.Perfect for cutting vinyl, paint mask, reflective vinyl, twill, heat transfers, sandblast material and more.Efficiently cuts up to 500mm per second, providing maximum productivity.Perforated cutting function makes it easy to create labels and decals ready for individual sale.Overlap Cutting (up to 10x), for cutting thicker media like magnetic materials and card stock.With cutting edge capabilities and unmatched reliability, backed by a comprehensive warranty, the GS-24 is Roland's best desktop cutter ever. Produce vehicle graphics, signs & decals, decorated apparel, specialty graphics, and much more. Translation: you can cut like never before-even on thick, dense substrates. With a completely redesigned cutting carriage and blade holder, the GS-24 offers greater stability and a 40% increase in downforce (from 250g to 350g). Remove the back paper, so the letters/shape is left behind on the transfer foil.The Roland GS-24 desktop cutter delivers maximum precision and efficiency. Burnish hard to get letters/shape to adhere to the foil. Unroll the transfer foil (transparant) and place vinyl on sticky side. When taking out large pieces of the vinyl, roll the sticky part on itself so as to not get stuck on the letters. Remove the negative space from the vinyl including the inside of letters with a knife. To return the sheet, press and hold the up arrow key. Press and hold the down arrow to give yourself plenty of the sheet so you can cut your print off.
!If you do not see this window, go to Window and choose CutStudio Plug in and the option to 'print' will appear. A second window from an application outside of Illustrator will ask you to confirm the cut. Change the size of your artboard to correlate with the width of the vinyl cutter.Īdjust the vertical length according to your artwork.įrom the Roland Cut Studio window in Illustrator, press the print button (the button with just a printer icon). The vinyl cutter is currently connected to an intern computer in the graphics room. Open file on computer attached to vinyl cutter: The plotter will automatically tell you how wide the vinyl is. Choose what you have loaded using the arrows and the enter button. Once loaded, the plotter will ask you if the vinyl loaded is a roll or sheet. You may adjust the rollers by moving them to the indicated white marks on the plotter. To load a new roll, make sure the vinyl goes past the rollers on both sides. Use the lever on the right-hand side to release the vinyl roll. !!The maximum width of the vinyl cutter is 60 CM!!! Prepping the vinyl plotter: Select the image/type > type > create outlines. This means you must outline all your texts/shapes in Illustrator or they will not print. Please visit this Youtube video if you would like a visual guide.