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hi guys just noticed this post?
you can create those images in photoshop with the visual effects tools did you know.
just turn the images into pencil or charcole drawings and send straight to the...

i might be wrong or totally off base with this but cermark by nature reacts to temperature so the more heat the better and more permanent the finish?
from what i know and my own experiences from...

we use around about 500 sheets of black brass per month and the only way we manage to get a shinny brass effect is to raster on high power and slightly out of focus . were happy with the result and...

well Rodney thanks for the info and trust me im not one to dismiss things just for the sake of it , i do see your chain of thought and i think perhaps what i was inferring and what actually...

the dust buster will also suck the card up if ur not careful and the reason some parts fail to fall out is the some what hit and miss flatness of the card also use to much power to cut through the...

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and for the UK version of a bright idea of which i might add is where most of the bright ideas in this world originate until they are stolen by some forign super power :)

unplug the air...

thanks guys for the help and yes epilog called and we tracked the problem down to dirt in the gear ive cleaned it out and all is well in the world again.
at some point over the holidays i will put a...

try this one i engraved this on to a rifle stock so its good quality 104301

my legend ext 36 is having a mental breakdown i think ? or is it me?
after finishing an engraving the head fails to reset to the home position preferring to go to the back of the machine and stop...

you can tweak stucki settings in coral draw if you need to , the average i find is around mid point although lower or higher settings work if the photo is full of dark areas or vice versa

you can engrave a digital photo straight from your pc to an epilog engraver without any work done on it until you get to the print driver set up then all you need do is select stucki in the image...

you didnt mention how old your machine was,
i recently suffered a similar problem with lines over the image , they seemed to be evenly placed .
after a lot of trial and error i managed to track...

try engraving it in stucki mode at 45% setting

thanks everyone for your help , i have enough examples now so no need to keep posting . but happy holidays and thanks again :)

from what im reading it doesn't matter how many times you print the pattern out the laser cut piece will never meet the tolerances you require?

printers always print slightly skewed , under or...

we use magnets from our magnetic notice boardit uses white ones and red ones white has a positive polarity and red a negative polarity . so depends if your machine has 2 types of poles on the...

thanks for that carol they will be helpful although not quite what i was after but just to give them the idea of the intricate work that can be done on the laser they should be fine .
i was after...

if all else fails just hit it with a big hammer :) that should do the trick

i always throw it in the laser and see what happens ?
as settings vary from machine to machine so best way i know is fast speed and low power and just keep increasing the power in stages of 5% . ...

hi guys,
is there any artist's amongst you ( other than piss artist's that is )
i need to produce some lace cut card samples for a customer and i dont really want to go to the expense of...

excelent site ron thanks very much , with the drawings it doesn't take a lot to import them into coral draw and tweek them to gain a bit of originality .
ive chopped a few up and combined them and i...

i forgot to mention i have a legend ext 36 75 watt amongst others so its not just a problem on mini machines .

i have encountered a similar scenario whilst cutting , the machine pausing in the corners only on some jobs that is.
the only way i have found around the problem was to up the dpi setting on the...

thanks for the input steve by the end of this ill go get a job with epilog lol

thanks frank for your help and as to being busy well we have diversified into other markets apart from engraving , but that meant getting another 3 machines to move to the volume side of the market