Sticker Print

The Big Roland

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International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) Standards

  • 1. Empowered Learner -- Students leverage technology to an active role in choosing, achieving and demonstrating competency in their learning goal, informed by the learning sciences.
  • 1a. Students articulate and set personal learning goals, develop strategies leveraging technology to achieve them and reflect on the learning process itself to improve learning outcomes.
  • 1b. Students understand the fundamental concepts of technology operations, demonstrate the ability to choose and use/troubleshoot current technologies.
  • 1c. Student are able to transfer their knowledge to explore emerging technologies.
  • 2. Digital Citizen -- Students recognize the rights, responsibilities and opportunities of living, learning and working in an interconnected digital world, and they act and model in ways that safe, legal and ethical.
  • 2a. Students engage in positive, safe, legal and ethical behavior when using technology, including social interactions online or when using networked devices.
  • 2b. Students demonstrate an understanding of and respect for the rights and obligations of copyright and sharing intellectual property.
  • 3. Knowledge Constructor -- Students critically curate a variety of resources using digital tools to construct knowledge, produce creative artifacts and make meaningful learning experiences for themselves and others.
  • Students plan and employ effective research strategies to locate information and other resources for their intellectual or creative pursuits.
  • 4. Innovative Designer -- Students use a variety of technologies within a design process to identify and solve problems by creating new, useful or imaginative solutions.
  • 4a. Students know and use a deliberate design process for generating ideas, testing theories, creating innovative artifacts or solving problems.
  • 4b. Students select and use digital tools to plan and manage a design process that considers design constraints and calculated risks.
  • 4c. Students develop, test and refine prototypes as part of a cyclical design process.
  • 5. Creative Communicator -- Students communicate clearly and express themselves creatively for a variety of purposes using the platforms, tools, styles, formats and digital media appropriate to their goals.
  • 5a. Students choose the appropriate platforms and tools for meeting the desired objectives of their creation or communication.
  • 5b. Students create original works or responsibly repurpose or remix digital resources into new creations.
    • *All standards listed above are from the SRR Industrial Technology Standards document based on the ISTE standards.
    This assignment allows students to practice real-world applications for their work made with Illustrator and Photoshop. Their illustrations for this project will be turned into stickers using our Roland TrueVis SG-300 Large Format Printer/Cutter.

    Students should download the Roland VersaWorks swatches to their computer prior to starting this project, then follow the directions to install the Roland swatches into Illustrator's swatch library.

    Putting to use skills learned from earlier lessons, students are to make illustrations or COB photos that they might like to make into stickers.

    Two separate sticker graphics are required. Many more can be made to fill the allotted space, or these two can be copied and pasted multiple times.

    Basic Instructions:

  • 1. Create your graphics and/or cob your photos and save them as Illustrator or Photoshop files.

  • 2. Make a new illustrator file 14.5 inches wide by 3 inches tall.

  • 3. Open each file in illustrator by clicking "File" in the menu bar and selecting "Open" -then navigate to where you saved your files, select the file you want opened and click the "Open" button.

  • 4. When the file is open in Illustrator, if it was a Photo or photoshop file, rasterize it (Object > Rasterize) then make a line around it to be used as a cut line. Keep it at least 5-10 pixels away from the image. (Video tutorial for Cut lines around a photo and video tutorial for Cut lines around an illustration

  • 5. Select the cut line and apply the Roland "CutContour" swatch to it. (Select the line and click on the "CutContour" swatch in the "Roland VersaWorks Swatches" panel. Your cut line should turn pink.)

  • 6. Group your design and the cut line, copy it and paste it into the 14.5 X 3 Illustrator file you created previously.

  • 7. Repeat for your second design (and other designs you'd like to include on this print).

  • 8. Arrange your designs to fill the 14.5X3-inch space so that you can easily cut them apart while still minimizing sticker waste.

  • 9. Save the 14.5X3 illustration as an Illustrator EPS (Encapsulated Post Sript) file. * *If you see a dialog box (like this) pop-up talking about spot-colors, some graphics or images need to be rasterized before saving. To rasterize, select the image(s) in your document, click on "Object" in the menu bar and click "Rasterize". Then try saving again. (See screen shot here.) DO NOT RASTERIZE CUTLINES!

    • If students follow directions and achieve an 8/10 or higher, they will be able to print their designs on our Big Roland.

    Evaluation:
    2 points -- Complexity/Quality of both designs
    3 points -- All cut lines are properly made
    3 points -- Good use of sticker space. (Not alot of blank or wasted material)
    2 points -- Saved as Illustrator EPS file with your name
    10 Points Total


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