 So, today I wanted to share with you all our cut vinyl, so if you go to a restaurant, carry out Neighborhood Store, you see these vinyl graphics similar to this one, on the front of the window, on the drive-through, maybe even in the parking lot, but I wanted to share with you a step-by-step of how we import the job, set up the job, print the job, and then trace the job out, so it'll contour, cut that job out, and we'll start right now. Alright, so we have our job all set up here, our Henry Soul Cafe. If you notice in this graphic, we already have a transparent background. That's important because when you're setting up the contour, you see that white stroke going around it, there's a white outline. Because this graphic is going on the storefront door, as well as the storefront windows, those windows are tinted, so if we didn't have that white stroke around it, it would make it harder to see, I don't know the right term, but it would not be as transparent and as vibrant if we didn't have that stroke around the graphic. So, in order to do that, to set this job up, we're going to have to do what's called a color overlay, and that's going to create a solid image that will then import into Illustrator, and then I'll show you here, in Illustrator, you would then place the file, the black image that we just created, you place that to the same parameters as the graphic that you already have on your screen, and the reason we do it as a solid black is because what we're going to do is we're going to basically do an image trace of that black image, so we're going to have that black image on the top layer, and we're going to go ahead and do an image trace there, and then after we do that, we're going to up in the top menu, hit expand, that will now create the contour line, the vector lines, and we'll use our selector tool to select the white background, and hit delete, that'll get rid of the transparent background, and then clicking on the black image, the contour image, in order for this rolling machine that we're going to run this job on, we want to set the fill to transparent, so nothing there, no color, and on the outline, we want to set it to 100% magenta, for our rolling 300V uses a 100% magenta to know where to cut, and you actually have to name that file correctly, so I'll do that here for this presentation, so you want to create a new swatch, and the name of that swatch for this machine has to be cut with a capital C, contour, and contour with a capital C, you then also on the color type, you want to make it a spot color, and then make sure 100% magenta and zero on all other colors, hit OK, obviously for this presentation, we already have that swatch already set up, so we're going to click on that swatch that we just created, the cut contour, we're going to change our stroke to 0.25, so it'll be a nice thin line, and then if I zoom in here, you can now see that magenta contour cut line all the way around our graphic, so let's go ahead and head over to the printer, let's get this job rolling, and I'll see you in a sec. Alright, so the job is now just finishing, as I said, now that it has fully printed, the machine is now feeding it back, we'll be feeding it backwards into the machine, so what it's actually doing now is cutting around all of the words, around all of the graphic, the picture, the photo, everything in the image, and guys I have to mention, this machine saves so much time, other devices you would actually have to print it with registration marks on it, when it's finished, take it off, load it into another machine, and then it would do the contour cut there, this machine is wonderful because it does it all in one, you don't have to take this one job and put it on multiple devices, you can do it all at the same time, so we're gonna let it finish cutting, and then I'll take you over to our flat table, where we'll go ahead and what's called weed out, so we're gonna peel off the excess material that we don't need, so then we can transfer that image directly onto the door and to the front windows of this business. Alright, so the print is all done, as you can see, nice, vibrant, high-gloss, and what we're gonna do here is what's called weeding, so I'm gonna take my little tweezers here that I have, these are a great little weeding tool, and we're gonna now pick out the graphic, excuse me, not the graphic, we're gonna pick out the excess material, so we're peeling off the stuff we don't need, because the contour cut all the way around this image, we're going to easily just tear away all of the excess material, you guys have a nice sharp blade on your screen, it makes weeding so easy, and then it's actually, it's so intricate when it cuts, it actually cut around these letters, so then I can go on with my tool and then just peel out the material that is basically waste, we don't need that because this is gonna be a transparent image on the front window of this cafe, you get rid of that, and then we just have a couple little areas inside some of these letters, get that out, and it just makes it so easy on the application when you're doing the install, actually on the windows, or maybe it's on the back of a vehicle, we use these vinyl adhesive vinyl material on all sorts of applications, so last little thing is down here on this S, have that, and then around the H here, there you go, now everything that is not needed is no longer here, so in order to transfer this image onto a glass storefront or the back of a vehicle or whatever it may be, we take a transfer tape and apply that transfer tape down, and the reason you want to do this is this becomes what they call the carrier, so if I had to think about it, if I had to peel just this graphic off, there would be nothing to hold it, as you see this material, but it's thin, you know it's gonna fold over and stick and it's gonna jumble up to the point where you're gonna waste that graphic, you're gonna end up having the printer cut it and weed it all over again, so by using this application tape or transfer tape, it acts as the carrier, so then you can peel, if you can imagine, peel the graphic off, and then this transfer tape acts as the bonding, so that when you put it onto the window graphic, you now have a carrier for it, in which you apply the adhesive stick to the window, and then all you have to do is peel this tape off, and now you have a nice smooth image on your substrate or window or vehicle or whatever you're applying it to, so just do one more tape, tape that down, I'll take my burnisher tool and just smooth it all out, if there's any air bubbles in between the tape and the graphic, it could affect how it transfers to this window, smooth it all out, and that's all you have, it's now on there, and so what I was referencing on transferring, so now with this tape, because it'll act as a carrier, when I go to peel this transfer tape off, the graphic now comes up with it, alright, so you don't have to worry about that graphic folding over or flipping around on you or whatever it might be, so guys look, if this was helpful, please give me a thumbs up, subscribe to my channel if you like this content, also comment below because I want to know from you guys, you know certain things that you're interested in that we might take for granted here in the print shop, because it's stuff that we do every single day, and you know, comment below, let me know if you want to learn about banners or other signage or postcards, you know, all of these things are, you know, to us we take for granted because we do it every single day, but we do understand that this content is giving you information and knowledge that you might be willing to learn more about, so talk to you guys soon, this is Chris Birch