Room T0.6
- Laser Cutting
- Fabric Printing
(Always press Emergency Button if any problems or fire starts)
Artwork has to be a vector file to be able to go through the laser cutting machine. If your image is produced or edited in Photoshop turn in to grayscale and eliminate as much grey as possible. Save the file as a JPEG then open up in Ai (Adobe Illustrator). Select the image, click object > live trace > make and expand. After live tracing your chosen image save the file (when saving the file make sure you untick all the boxes, otherwise it will not open in the APS ethas software).
Start Programmes > APS ethas software > Click OK > Open recent saved image > Keep clicking next, then finish (don't need to change anything).
If you don't want the border around the edge to be engraved or cut out in your work then make sure you delete it before you forget.
(The image size is in the bottom right hand corner so make sure you check the size of your image will fit onto your material. If you wish to change the size, drag cursor over all, press shift and drag bigger/smaller)
If you are bring your image straight from photoshop (JPEG of TIF) the image will need cleaning up. (The image may have 2 layers so one layer will need to be deleted, you cannot highlight the entire image and press delete you have to take each bit separately and delete them). If your going to use a TIF or JPEG file try and chose a simple file so that it won't take too long to clean up.
Editing cutting effects (next to colour bar) - Select number, pick a cutting effect and then press set. (Change the colour of parts of your image to match what cutting effect you want on that particular part)
Click Output > Material Manager > Scroll through materials and choose appropriate one (Don't need to change anything else)
Switch machine on > Open the lid > Place material in the centre > Press the hand symbol on the machine (puts the machine online) > measuring button underneath hand > press ↵ (enter) > use the arrows to move the laser to the bottom left hand corner of your material > press ↵ > move the laser to the opposite corner > press ↵
Go back to the computer screen
> Output > Cut design > Check Material > Send to cutter
If the laser is too light it means the laser is too far away from your material so adjust the nib.
- Turn the machine off
- Hoover up any cut out pieces that are in the bottom of the laser cutter.
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