Your first job, start to finish

This walks one sticker sheet from sign-in to a press. It uses the buttons as they are on the screen, in the order a shop does the work. It takes about 25 minutes the first time. You need a supervisor's account, two sticker files (any two PNG pictures will do) and a second person's account if you want to try the hand-out.

1. Sign in

Open Studio and sign in with your e-mail and password. You land on Home, with your shop's name down the left and Today in the middle. See Open Studio and sign in.

2. Start by the stock

Under Start a job press By material. Studio asks three things along the top: 1. Material type, 2. Material, 3. What you are making. Choose Stickers & decals, a vinyl, then Sticker sheet. The stock comes first because it decides what the press can do. See Start a sticker sheet.

3. Put designs on the sheet

Press Add design and choose your files. Each lands with a pink cut line round it, and the foot of the screen counts them: 2 designs · 2 pieces · 1 sheet. Drag a piece, then press Undo, the left arrow beside in and mm. Open the Job tab and type a number into Gap between pieces. See Add designs and set the gap.

4. Read the preflight

Open the Preflight tab. If the stock has no Quick Set yet, you will see a stop that says so, and it tells you where to type one. Press Press, then Materials…, type the Quick Set exactly as your RIP names it, and press Done. See Give each stock its Quick Set and Read the preflight.

5. Save it to the shop

Press File, then Save job, type a name and press Save. The job is kept in your shop's account, not on this computer. Reload the page, or sign in on another computer, and it is there. See Save a job and pick it up again.

6. Hand it to a person and have it checked

Press Close, then Hand out in the column. Under Give a job, choose the job, choose a person under To, add a note and press the button that names them. They find it first on their own Home, open it and press Mark as checked. Who checked it, and when, is on the job. See Hand out a job and mark it checked.

7. Put it on a press

Open the job again and press Put on a press… at the right of the bar. WHAT GOES TO THE PRESS shows the file, every separation and every page. Choose the press and press Put it on and its name. See Put a job on a press.

Within a minute or so the press connector fetches it, and the job's row in Jobs says by whom and when. A person at the press starts it in the RIP.

8. Look at the press board

Press All sites in the column. Each press shows what its connector last reported, and the job you put on it shows until it has been fetched. See The press board and your press connector.

9. Tell us what you think

Press your initials at the top right, then Send feedback…. It tells us which screen you were on.