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Hi Frank,

I'll answer these from the perspective of a Speedy 300:

- Trotec JobControl streams all jobs "live" (with a small buffer) to the laser. It is not possible to store the job on the...

Start a sample job with very low power and low speed, pause the job once it starts running. You should be able to hear a slight whistle of air from the nosecone as well as feel it. You should also be...

Hi Tony,

As far as I know you can still use vector color-mapping with black & white mode. Our line of business involves sending up to 12" x 24" 500dpi raster art to JobControl for engraving &...

See if there are any fixture or display case manufacturers nearby. There's one near us that does custom museum display cases and has entire gaylords full of acrylic scraps. There's everything from...

Hi Tony,

As far as I know the path to the database is static per install and cannot be changed. For JC X (10.x) it can be found at "C:\ProgramData\Trotec\JobControl\10.3.0\Trotec.db".

The best...

We do exactly this, not only sharing a common spool folder among multiple job-sending workstations but between two Speedy setups as well.

If you're having a hang on moving jobs to the plate I...

If you know the exact size and focal length of your lens try Design Research Optics in RI. You will certainly pay more than the average eBay Chinese lens but you will receive very good support and...

We engrave 10-20 A4 sheets of Trodat red rubber here a day so efficient cleaning is important. Our go-to cleaner is slightly watered down Tide Coldwater detergent, thinned out enough to still be...

Assuming the nodes are actually overlaying one another you would Combine (Ctrl+L) all of the segments and then reduce extra nodes by selecting the entire object using the Shape Tool (F10) and using...

We make everything from self-inking address stamps to government process stamps to scrap-booking art mounted stamps and everything in between. We use the same rubber for all of them, the Classico in...

According to the laser tube manufacturer Synrad: "The 9.3µm series is useful for processing materials that are highly absorptive of this wavelength, such as Kapton, PET, and others." Sounds like a...

With Trotec JobControl you do have control over whether it auto-crops to the actual rasterable/cuttable area ("Minimize to Jobsize" checked) or sizes the job with your exact dimensions ("Minimize..."...

We use the 2.5" silver lens for Rowmark plastics and engraving/cutting 3/8" acrylic.
1.5" red is our workhorse for rubber stamps, amazing how much wattage rubber eats up!

I have a milled acrylic table for our Xenetech rotary with the equivalent technique, ran very shallow 0.010" lines at the 1" marks to form a grid. Absolutely essential for lining up plates for a...

Courtesy of Wikipedia: "Fiber cement is a composite material made of sand, cement and cellulose fibers."

Most likely result is burnt cellulose and some very hot sand & cement!

We have a retired Trotec Mistral unit which appears to use the same "Comfort Box" filter which was a large part of the reason we designed a 3rd-party exhaust solution when we added additional...

We have gone through quite a few 1.5" lenses due to our heavy rubber stamp workload, even with air assist the frequent cleaning & constant 100% power tends to give them a lifespan of 9-12 months. The...

We run a production stamp & sign shop on a Speedy II and Speedy 300, so JobControl spooling speed can have a huge impact on production time with the number of jobs we send. Luckily I've found two...

JobControl does store the entire material database in that single .dat file. At my job I have that file backed up from both production engraving computers every 3 hours if any changes have occurred,...