How To Layout Garment Media

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1. Use templates for tightly enforced layouts with automatic placement and sizing.
2. Use fixed sheet mode for flexible, manual layout control.
3. Select the layout method based on production consistency or layout freedom requirements.

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1. Select a preconfigured queue that uses templates.
2. Observe that templates automatically update: Total plate size
3. Confirm that graphics are centered automatically.
4. Note that oversized graphics are scaled to fit the template.

• Print area

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1. Review templates containing multiple slots.
2. Confirm that slots may contain the same graphic.
3. Observe that slots can be configured to rotate graphics based on machine feed direction.

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1. Open the Q menu.
2. Select Properties.
3. Open Layout Manager.
4. Enable Show import template job when a graphic is received.
5. Confirm that a prompt appears when a graphic is imported.

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1. Choose Express to use the current template.
2. Choose Select to pick from a list of templates.
3. For templates with multiple slots for different graphics, select the slot to populate.

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1. Click Edit to modify an existing template.
2. Enter a template name.
3. Click a slot to edit.
4. Change the alignment setting.
5. Example: Set alignment to Top Middle.
6. Click Update to save slot changes.
7. Click Save As to create a new template.

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1. Review slot labels such as 1 and 2.
2. Assign the same label number to multiple slots to use the same graphic.
3. Assign different label numbers to allow different graphics per slot.
4. Confirm that the first imported graphic fills slot 1 and the next fills slot 2.

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1. Use templates to automate layout.
2. Reduce operator error.
3. Maintain consistency across production jobs.

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1. Open the Q menu.
2. Select Properties.
3. Open Media Setup.
4. Change the media type to Fixed Sheet.
5. Select the plate size.

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1. Place multiple graphics within the print area manually.
2. Note that each graphic is placed on a new sheet by default.
3. Hold Control and drag graphics between sheets.

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1. Use Cropping for trimming graphics.
2. Use Tiling for splitting large graphics.
3. Use Copy Groups for duplicating layouts.
4. Use Step and Repeat for repeating patterns.