After you’ve acquired all six items for the pedestal room, you’re still unable to pull the switch, as the pressure valve is not on. Which means if you think you’ve walked around enough already in Chapter One, you thought wrong (and no, Bendy and the Ink Machine is not labeled as a walking simulator).

the Pressure Valve in Chapter One of Bendy and the Ink Machine
the Pressure Valve in Chapter One of Bendy and the Ink Machine
the Pressure Valve in Chapter One of Bendy and the Ink Machine

All right, in order to get to the pressure valve, leave the pedestal room, take the left hallway all the way down, then continue the long hallway until it branches to the right, and keep going until it turns right again. You’ll enter the projector room, which will turn on and you’ll find a happy-dancing Bendy on screen.

At the end around the left is the pressure valve.

In case you’re interested in some nom noms, there are 3 Bacon Soup cans on the top shelf in the room.

When you turn the valve, the room will partially fill with ink–perfectly normal.

To get back to the pedestal room, follow the long hallway, past the tape recorder on the table, past the smiling cut-out of Bendy, and the room’s on the right.

Pull the main power switch.