Start a sticker sheet

Studio asks about the stock before anything else. The stock decides what the press can do, so it comes first. Choosing it after you have laid a sheet out would mean laying the sheet out twice.

Start the job

1. On Today, under Start a job, press By material, or press New job in the column.
2. Along the top you are asked three things, in this order: 1. Material type, 2. Material, 3. What you are making.

Above the first question there are two optional boxes for who the job is for:

• Job number. Studio fills it in with the date and four random letters or numbers, such as 20261109-K7Q2. Change it or clear it.
• Company. The customer's name.

They lead the print file's name, and they show on the job's line in the Jobs list and on the press board. Clear the number and the file is named after the artwork instead.

The three questions

1. Material type. The shelf the stock sits on, such as Stickers & decals. Only shelves you have stock on are shown.

2. Material. A card for each roll you could load, with its roll width, BIGGEST PAGE, LINER and finishes. A stock with no Quick Set says so in red on its card: No Quick Set — nothing can be sent on it. You can still lay a job out on it, but the preflight will stop it later. See Give each stock its Quick Set.

3. What you are making. For a stock on a liner:

• Sticker sheet: several designs on one sheet, each cut to its own shape and peeled off the backing.
• Die-cut singles.
• Decal.
• Roll labels, marked Not in this version.

A stock with no liner offers Banner and Decal. See A banner wider than the roll.

Start from what it goes on

By product, beside By material on Today, opens a lookup of what the job goes on, such as a jar or a shirt, and then asks for the material.

Nothing offered can then be refused. A shelf with no stock is not shown, and a product the stock cannot make is not shown. A stock with no liner is never offered a kiss-cut product.

The sheet

After the third choice you are on the sheet itself, 8.5″ × 11″ and empty unless your stock has a different opening size, with DESIGNS and Add design on the left. The sheet can be any size the stock will take.

The bar now reads something like White Vinyl · Sticker sheet · 8.5″ × 11″. That label is a button: it takes you back to the three questions. There is no material list on the bar, on purpose. A stock changed by accident would squash the sheet and reset the cut.

Start from files instead

File → Open artwork…, Import a folder… and Import a zip… also start a job, from the files. See Add a day's files at once.