GARFIELD HEIGHTS BRANCH
Our
Garfield Heights Branch Innovation Center offers free access to a variety of fabrication equipment that can be used to create product prototypes, signage, crafts and more. The branch also offers a green screen video recording studio and audio studio where visitors can create videos and record CDs for their small businesses or personal use.
ORIENTATION
Before you can use the Garfield Heights Branch Innovation Center, you must complete a required orientation class that will acquaint you with our procedures, equipment and software.
FIND A CLASS
After you have completed your orientation class, please print and fill out these forms. The completed forms must be returned to the branch where you attended orientation.
EQUIPMENT
MAKERBOT 5TH GENERATION 3-D PRINTER & MAKERBOT DIGITIZER 3-D SCANNER
Create a 3-D prototypes of your product ideas. Design and print custom projects.
EPILOG HELIX LASER ENGRAVER
High quality engraving and cutting of wood, acrylics, and more; high detail engraving even at fastest speeds.
ROLAND VINYL CUTTER
Cut precision graphics; create large format signs, labels, iron-on decals, and more.
BROTHER PR1000E EMBROIDERY MACHINE
Perfect for home-based entrepreneurs, hobbyists and crafters; stitch designs with up to 10 colors without changing thread — up to 1,000 stitches per minute.
COLLABORATION TOUCHSCREEN
MAC & PC COMPUTER WITH ADOBE CREATIVE CLOUD SOFTWARE
Create your own company logo, or product design; includes Acrobat, Illustrator, InDesign, PhotoShop and more.
HEAT PRESS
Create custom T-shirts for your business or personal use.
INKJET PRINTER
Print, scan and copy in black and white and color on sizes up to 11" x 17."
SUBLIMATION PRINTER
Decorate on many substrates, including polyester fabrics, aluminum, wood, tile, mugs, acrylic and glass.
HEAVY DUTY SEWING MACHINE
DIGITAL DRAWING TABLET
MATERIALS COST
Colors are subject to change based on availabilty.
VINYL 
Sticker Vinyl
10 cents per linear inch ($1 minimum)
Colors
White, sunflower, real red, orange, bubble gum, sapphire blue, lime tree green,
green, black, silver, gold, merlot
Heat Transfer Vinyl
50 cents per linear inch ($1 minimum)
Colors
White, black
PRINTING
Available in color and black and white
Large Format Printing
35 cents per linear inch
Inkjet Format Printing
35 cents per page
Sublimation Printing
$1 per standard sheet of sublimation paper
3-D PRINTING
PLA Filament
10 cents per gram ($1 minimum)
Colors
True red, true blue, true green, true yellow, true orange, true purple, true black,
true white, cool gray, warm gray, natural clear
PLYWOOD
$5 per piece of Baltic birch (12" x 12")
PLA Filament
10 cents per gram ($1 minimum)
Thickness
1/8", 1/4"
EMBROIDERY THREAD
10 cents per 1,000 stitches ($1 minimum
)
Colors vary
AUDIO RECORDING STUDIO
Make your own tracks, podcasts or audiobook recordings in the Garfield Heights Branch audio recording studio. Complete a short orientation class and you'll be on your way to becoming the next big thing.
Once you've completed an orientation class you can use your library card to reserve the audio recording studio anytime during regular hours. No library card? No problem.
You can apply for one online.
FIND A CLASS
AUDIO RECORDING STUDIO EQUIPMENT
•Soundproof recording booth
•Mac computers
•Adobe Creative Suite including Adobe Audition CC audio editing software
•Garageband audio editing software
•Microphone
•Keyboard DAW controller
VIDEO RECORDING STUDIO
Create and edit your own video, commerical or short film in the Garfield Heights Branch video recording studio. The studio's green screen backdrop and editing software allow you to explore your creativity and set your video anywhere on Earth — and even fantastical landscapes that don't exist in the real world.
All you have to do is complete a short orientation class and you'll be on your way to becoming the next Steven Spielberg. Once you've completed an orientation class you can use your library card to reserve the video recording studio anytime during regular hours. If you don't have a library card,
you can apply for one online.
FIND A CLASS
VIDEO RECORDING STUDIO EQUIPMENT
- Mac computer featuring Adobe Creative Suite, Blackmagic Design ATEM and iMovie software
- 1 video camera
- Chromakey Green Screen wall
- Chromakey Green Screen backdrop and stand
- 1 handheld microphone
- 1 lapel microphone
