to hold thinner pens. The advantage of the Pen Holder is that the center of the pen will be positioned the
same as the blade on the Zing Blade Holder, thus allowing you to draw with the pen and then cut out a
shape. The pen will draw in the correct relative positions to the cut:
If you do not own the Zing Pen Holder or you wish to use a pen which does not fit into the holder, then refer
to the following section: Adjusting for Differences in Diameters of Tools and Blade Holders.
Remember that you must set the Cut Type to WYSIWYG so that the shapes will not be moved to the where
you set the blade tip origin. They will instead be drawn or cut where they are located on the Virtual Mat.
Always score or emboss first and then cut. Turn off the Blade Offset for drawing because it is not needed
and can give undesired results. But then remember to turn it back on for the cut process.
Do not have the pen positioned too low in the blade holder seat or the tip of the pen could drag across the
paper when moving from one shape to the next.
Make sure your shapes will not be drawn where either pinch wheel travels over the material. Otherwise, the
ink or glue could smear. This may also be a problem with the small press rings. You may want to slide the
rings to either side of the Zing (next to the pinch rollers), so that they will not smear the ink or glue during the
drawing process.
The Sakura Quickie glue pens work well in the Zing. They will fit into the Zing Pen Holder, as well as directly
into the blade holder seat (if alignment with cutting isn’t needed).
The open path fonts available in MTC should work well for drawing as they provide single drawn lines and
curves versus an outline form. Refer to Section 5.11.
The following video shows how to use the Zing pen holder and the blade holder for an aligned “draw and
cut.”
The following video shows how to use a glue pen and the blade holder for an aligned “draw and cut.”
Adjusting for the Difference in Diameters of Tools and Blade Holders
If you plan to use two tools with different diameters, then you will face an alignment problem. In the following
example, two glasses and an inner circle will be drawn with a silver gel pen and then the outside circle cut
out.
Because the gel pen is thin, it sits further back in the blade holder seat than the blade holder. With no
adjustments made, the resulting drawn image and cut circle were out of alignment:
Outside cut circle is
aligned with pen
drawn circle
Outside cut circle is
NOT aligned with pen
drawn circle
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