### Vinyl Cutter
Roland GS-24 Vinyl Cutter
### What it does:
- Vinyl Stickers, pop-up cards, books, signs, screen priting, sandblasting
- Heat transfer
- Metal foil, flex, multi-layer circuits, wiring harnesses, antennas
- weeding, transfer paper, adhesion, lift vs shear
- origami, kirigami
- use the double-stick film to make your own adhesive-backed film and cut stickers from the material of your own choosing, e.g. your favorite paper.
### SOP for Vinyl Cutter in SC 102
#### To Load vinyl:
- Remove the knife, and make sure that about 1 mm of knife is protruding from the knife holder. Replace.
- Depress the loading lever on the back left of the cutter to raise the rolling wheels.
- Load the vinyl from the back. If it is a roll, place it on the rotating tray in the back of machine.
- Set the rolling wheels to desired location. Both wheels must be under white tape. Raise the loading lever up to lock material in place.
- Press "menu" on the keypad twice. Press enter to set up material. Select sheet or roll and press "enter again"
- Move cutting head with the arrows located on the keypad. Send it to desired location. Hold down the origin key about one second to set 0,0.
#### To print from an image in Inkscape:
- Open a new document in Inkscape. The document should be 22.99 inches in width and 62.99 inches in height. This is the default document size.
- On the top menu bar, click 'File', then click 'Import'. Import a black and white image into Inkscape.
- Move image to the bottom left corner. The bottom left corner is the origin.
- On the top menu bar, click 'Path', then click 'Trace Bitmap'.
- Select your image if it isn't already selected. It should show up in the preview box in the Trace Bitmap menu.
- For black and white images, the Brightness cutoff detection mode works. Click apply at the bottom of the menu.
- This creates a new Bitmap image over your original image. Move this new image out of the way, and delete the old image. Then place your new image in the bottom left corner.
- The new image only has the 'Fill' property. We need to add a 'Stroke' property. While holding down the Shift key, click on any color in the color bar to add a 'Stroke' to the image.
- Next, double click on the color next to the word 'Stroke' in the bottom left corner. This will pull up the Fill and Stroke menu to the right of the screen.
- Click on stroke style.
- Change the Stroke width to 0.5 px (IMPORTANT, will not cut if the stroke width is incorrect).
- Now print the image by clicking Ctrl+P or 'File->Print'.
- The Roland GX-24 should be the selected printer.
- Send file to vinyl cutter by pressing Print.