The Vinyl Cutting Process

Any excess vinyl is trimmed off the edges and the record is ready.

The vinyl cutting process.

Place the vinyl onto the silhouette cutting mat with the backing paper side down onto the mat making sure the vinyl is covering the same area where the design is placed on the virtual mat in silhouette studio. If your silhouette cutting mat is brand new you may want to de stick the cutting mat somewhat by blotting it with a clean t shirt. Computer designed images are loaded onto the vinyl cutter via a wired connection or over a wireless. Aside from simple fonts already in the windows or mac operating system you can purchase additional fonts or you can.

The cutting process is fun addictive and incredibly rewarding. Bring your artwork into a vinyl cutter. If you manage to get the thin fonts or smaller script words to cut correctly try reverse weeding to make it easier to transfer if you are using vinyl. Let us know if you have any questions and we ll do our best to answer them.

Then load the mat into your cricut machine by pressing the flashing load unload button. A vinyl cutter that gets the job done. Once the mat is loaded the screen will tell you to press the flashing go button. It should show up.

Open cut studio the software bundled with the cutter. There is a quick cooling cycle that solidifies the vinyl and bonds the labels. Vector art creates clean lines and straight edges which helps the vinyl cutter calculate where it needs to cut. Remove the transfer tape liner.

A vinyl cutting machine does not recognise a pixel so it cannot cut these images. The screen will show a progress bar as your machine completes the cut. This process is called weeding. To prevent bubbles start in.

For more tutorials and guides aimed at helping you get the most out of your machine be sure to visit our how to section. If you have tried everything above and your cutting issue is still not resolved contact cricut support. Vector art also has less colors to choose from which helps create a clearer image. Stick a piece of vinyl to your cutting mat making sure the paper backing side is down.

The vinyl cutter uses a small knife to. Cutting and application instructions remove the negative pieces from each of the images leaving the clear liner intact. Simple artwork like text is the easiest artwork to cut with a vinyl cutter. How it works design creation.

Placing the labels on the top and bottom of the biscuit the 2 stampers top side a and bottom side b press down applying 100 tons of pressure at 200 degrees celsius creating the vinyl record. Vinyl cutting for begginers step 1. You can create an image with open.