Category: MAKR 156: Print Maker
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Attach Things to Another
Lets talk fasteners, hardware, glue, resin, and methods. Questions to Ask Techniques Glue & Clamp/Hold Glues work best when aided with a physical attachment. Use glue AND a screw, nail or staple, a glue and a joint, a glue and stitching or binding, or clamp for best results. Use Appropriate Hold/Strength Any glue is only…
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Heat Transfer Vinyl (HTV)
With heat transfer vinyl you can apply a design to cotton or canvas, it just sticks on. Sublimation HTV Use this as a base to then print sublimation OVER (dont print directly onto this product). Works on dark and light colored fabrics, T-shirts, hats, pillows, etc. Vinyl Sheets (Color Changing, Puffy, Solar) PRINT AREA: 12″x…
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Sublimation Printing
Sublimation printing is a digital printing process that uses heat and pressure to transfer dye onto primarily Man-Made materials. (source) How to create a file, make placeholder shapes-to-size, resize images, download a jog, drag and drop it back into your file, flip the text, save to PDF and print from PDF in browser. Three Printing…
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Canva for Design
Canva is an online, browser-based software that let you design items for printing on sublimation, stickers, laser and more. It has a free version and a paid version. We have a number of templates created at the right size for various projects that you can use.
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Adobe Illustrator
How to Get the Software Tips & Tricks Slides: Illustrator for Makerspace Cut lines for Stickers: Offset Path
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Sewing Tutorials and Patterns
For Brand New Sewists Basic Stiches Tutorial: https://www.thesprucecrafts.com/learn-stitches-and-hand-sewing-projects-2978472 Sewing by Hand Sewing with a Machine Free Patterns & Tutorials
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Fusion 360 and 3d Design Resources
Learn how to use Fusion 360 design software. https://www.cadclass.org/ You should take Josh’s CNC 270 class which uses this online training and book.
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Stickers on the Roland Printer
Learn Learn how to Design and Print a Sticker. Your sticker/s can be to give away or for a specific purpose like a laptop, table, or cabinet. Instructions and demo to design a 3×3″ sticker in Canva then open it in Illustrator to draw a cut line with a pen tool and save as a…
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Print Maker – MAKR 156
Make banners, stickers, T-shirts, posters, decals, static cling, laser cutting and engraving, and vehicle wraps and more… Apply graphic design principles and commercial production standards for digital printing using large format and specialty printing devices using industry equipment. Projects include the creation of banners, stickers, T-shirts, posters, decals, static cling, laser cutting and engraving, and…