How To Print, Laminate & Cut On Your Roland Printer

This video uses our Roland VG2-640 for the print and cut work and our Rollover flatbed application table for laminating BUT whatever your Roland machine, this will show you the process and take you through the steps and settings in VersaWorks as well as on your machine.

[@213adr]

Your videos help a lot, good job!
I have a question, on the Roland VG3-540 is it possible to reduce the vinyl advance speed when the machine is reading the cut marks? as the machine is very quick to read and sometimes jams the material.

[@thevinylguys]

Hi, thanks very much, glad you’re finding the content useful. I’m afraid you can’t adjust that speed. It may be worth making sure you leave some extra material at the front of the job to prevent it catching on the cover or lifting when feeding when it’s reading the crop marks

[@airwolf08]

Many thanks for this video guys it has helped me get used to my new roland bn20a and keep up the good work if you decide to do a video on how to print a specific roland colour and print it that would be great thanks again

[@thevinylguys]

Thanks very much, let us know a bit more about the specific issue you’re having and we can put something together or if it would help you out to schedule a 20 min call / video chat with one of us just drop us an email to [e-mail] and we can get you sorted 👍🏻

[@airwolf08]

@@thevinylguys Many thanks for your reply guys ,My question is i have printed out the roland colour swatch so if i look at the swatch and look at the colour codes next to the colours how do i print the exact colour on the swatch to an item i designed in corel draw if this makes sense many thanks

[@thevinylguys]

@@airwolf08 ah I’m with you, will get Carl to look at putting together a short video covering that but make sure you have downloaded and installed the Roland palette into your design software and you should be able to select from it

[@airwolf08]

@@thevinylguys ok ive put the contour cut colour into corel draw but dont know how to do the rest of the colours but thanks for your time i am going on a coarse in june sometime in stafford so i could ask the guys there but thanks again i appreciate your help

[@thevinylguys]

@@airwolf08 is that the official Roland Versa Works course? If so that’ll be with us at our place

[@wingboa8911]

how to set beginning od graphic to view in right bottom side?

[@txterbug]

I used to have a job where I used one of these every day. If I had $45k sitting around I would totally buy one.

[@thevinylguys]

You’d be surprised at the cost of entry to wide format print these days then. A brand new 20” machine is available from around £5,000 and for under £10,000 you can easily find a good condition second user 54 or even 64” print and cut machine too.

[@keithbernard9461]

@@thevinylguys Can you suggest a good place to get used machines?

[@thevinylguys]

@@keithbernard9461 hi, if you are based in the UK I’d suggest speaking to your local Roland dealer, a lot of them will have some great offers on ex demo machines but many also have second user machines from part exchanges too.

[@Eventdesignbyfola]

Can you just cut only on the roland sg3-540 without printing

[@thevinylguys]

Yes you can.

[@Eventdesignbyfola]

@@thevinylguys pls you have to do a video. I tried today it was a struggle. I am talking about regular non printable vinyl gold just to cut into a shape I want

[@thevinylguys]

@@Eventdesignbyfola simply upload the file as you would any other file and select “cut only” in the cutting menu

[@Eventdesignbyfola]

I did but did not cut

[@thevinylguys]

@@Eventdesignbyfola then there must be some other issues if you’ve followed the correct steps