MACLab Digital Production

Printing Credits

First year and returning Students are required to pay the $20 printing fee at 346 ARTlab (large format printing room). This will cover all printing up to $20 for the Fall and Winter terms, expiring on April 30th.  If a student exhausts their $20 printing credits during either of the terms, they can purchase more credit in multiples of $5.  Keep in mind all credits will expire on April 30th, and accounts zeroed. Credits can be added using debit only.

School of Art students, faculty and staff have access to three colour-managed Epson large format printers with a maximum print size of 64" wide by the length of the roll (see chart below for maximum paper size).

Pricing: Printing cost is calculated by the square foot. The physical size of a print directly affects its cost, so be careful to state dimensions accurately when booking printing.

Payment can be made by DEBIT only in the Large Format Printing area or by cash or cheque in the SoA General Office. 

Large format printing hours: Monday to Friday, 8:30 am to 4:30 pm

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Produce dark, rich decals for almost any ceramic or glass substrate – glazed, unglazed, glossy and matte.

The CerPrint 3500 Ceramic Decal printer is located in the Large Format Printing Room 346. It is a student self-serve workstation used to output Black and White images for Ceramic digital decals (max. image size 8.5" x 11").

Students need to purchase Decal Paper in the Large Format printing room (346 ARTLAB) at a cost of $5.00 per sheet; payment is by Debit only in Large Format Printing.

Acceptable printing files are black and white Adobe PDF, Adobe InDesign or Adobe Illustrator. Students are expected to bring "print-ready" files.

For more assistance, contact Digital Technician Trevor Baziuk at soart@umanitoba.ca.

CerPrint 3500 Ceramic Decal printer hours: Monday to Friday 8:30 am to 4:30 pm

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The School of Art has a 64" Graphtec FC-8000-160 Vinyl Cutter capable of contour-cutting from digital files which must be formatted as vector lines or vector shapes.

We offer 2 vinyl scenarios:

1. Print & Cut - for projects requiring an image to be printed on vinyl and then cut out
2. Cut only - straight vinyl cutting on ORACAL 631 Exhibition Series Vinyl

The Black or White ORACAL vinyl is available in a matte finish. Coloured vinyl can be specially ordered on a project-by-project basis; a 1 week lead time is required to order coloured vinyl.

Vinyl cutting hours: Monday to Friday, 8:30 am to 4:30 pm

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Finishing Room Equipment for SoA Students