Week 3: Vynlcutter, Lasercutter designs and parametric construction kits, and more

Vynl work

I spent half an hour with Lambert, my instructor, on Friday learning to setup cutstudio and help him as he did some jobs with the machine and sticker papers.

I then took it on to practice. I installed the CutStudio software, loaded the first PNG I wanted to print. It was after attempting the first print that I realize I have to instal the printer's drivers separately. So I went ahead and installed it directly from our Vynlcutter via USB: a Roland GX-24

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  Click install on the step below

  

After that I was good to go. I used a webfavicon PNG (raster file)

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  Next I got printer origin (similar in orientation to my images positioning in the software) and hit Okay to print

  

I tried printing a slightly larger file to see how it turns out. I found out the machine does a better job with fairly spaced dimensions than it does with small characters like thin lines and small fonts.