Vinyl cutter is here and setup and ready to go. Already used up the test sheet just to get the hang of it all. I've got a couple of rolls of heat transfer vinyl hopefully shipping tomorrow to try to work on my farm logo and see how that goes.

To texans(hopefully he'll see this post): You were right, the CutStudio software is limited in the design area, but I think that they actually planned for it to be that way. Their Illustrator plugin works well and I think for the time being, I'll just use that as my design program and just send it to CutStudio when it's time to do the cutting. If it's alright, after I get a few more cuttings under my belt I might have to "pick your brain" to see what little tips and/or tricks I can pick up to make things go easier.

Now if my large format printer would just get here. I think I have another week on that one.

 

Congrats Tex.
You will no dought enjoy that thing. Anytime you got any questions just shoot me a pm or email. I will help you the best I can. I had a lot of fun doing some of the work I have done in the past. I'm really falling behind on some stuff I have told people I would do for them since I don't mess with it much anymore I find it harder and harder to get to the cutter to do the work I need to do.

 

Sounds swell Tex. Have fun with it.
We'll be looking forward to seeing what comes out!

 

Just got back from picking up my large format printer. It cam earlier then the 5-7 day shipping that they were thinking. As soon as I have that setup, I"ll try to take some pictures of the various equipment that I use. If y'all are interested or atleast indulge me.

 

Id like to see it

 

always glad to learn something new everyday . . .
and today's a day

 

The Cutter:


The Printer:


The Heat Press:


The Laptop that connects to Printer and Cutter(not my main design computer):


The Embroidery Machine:



Let me know what y'all think.

 

hooo hooo ahh hahhh ahhh

looks like you got your own little mad scientist's lab goin' there

pretty freaky cool I say

and a fine investment too I'm sure

 

quite a setup you got there!

 

Cool! I have a hand me down Stika 8" cutter that I play with, still learning how to get the lines right. My first project was last week when I replaced the stealership logo on my mudflaps. I think it turned out pretty good.

 

Looks good Tex. Ron nice looking mud flaps you got there.

 

nice - beats a yellow ribbon magnet made in China any day huh?

 

WOW ALL THE PICTURES LOOK GREAT!!!!!!!!

 

That adds quite a bit to those mud flaps that's for sure. Good Job! I had looked at the Stikas as well. Heard a lot of good things about them. Do you have the SV-8?

The biggest thing that I'm trying to get the hang of is doing the Crop Marks for a pre-printed piece and then importing from Ai to CutStudio to do the cutting. I've had some stumbling blocks with that. I'm going to try to some heat press vinyle on a shirt today, hopefully that vinyle will come in this morning. It's scheduled to anyway. I'm going to try to do my farm logo. I did the farm logo a long while back, long before I was even thinking about the vinyl cutter, but luckily it is a good candidate for the cutter. So that's going to be my first project.

 

It is the SV-8 which is perfect for me but very limiting for anyone trying to make a living with it. My cousin bought a SX-15 and then gave me the SV-8 (lucky me) I am terrible at converting but will get it figured out. I have watched some "how to" vids on youtube about how to make multi color projects etc...... I have burnt up a bit of vinyl practicing.