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Kathy,

I have an Epilog Helix 60 Watt machine and have done a few of the granite tiles. I use DPI 600, Speed 100% and power 25%. Hope this info helps.

Here is a scan of one of the tiles that...

I have used these and they work quite nicely: http://www.bedbathandbeyond.com/product.asp?order_num=-1&SKU=11883257

I have attached a photo of one that I have engraved.

Bill,

Since I posted this I have a new computer and am running a new operating system. I went from Windows XP Pro to Windows Vista Business and am no longer having problems. I wish I had better...

OK, so that y'all can feel young....

I started on a Heath/Zenith (home built) that had 2, 8" floppy drives. Drive one for the disk with the program and drive 2 for the disk with the data.

To...

Jerry,

While my machine has auto focus I usually use the manual focus to avoid having the laser re-focus between runs of the same job.

I is VERY easy to manually focus my laser. I am sure...

OK, here is where I am at on this one.

A tech from Epilog Laser came out to my site and tested the laser by connecting his laptop to it and running one of the jobs that I was having trouble with....

There are CD's and DVD's available that have a longer shelf life. They are "gold" disks and are billed as 100+ year life.

Make sure that when marking your disks that you do not use regular felt...

I have not done a lot of these but they were very easy to do. The only thing you have to watch out for is the handle as the rotary device turns the mug and the handle can hit the carriage.

I have...

This is an acrylic frame that was colored by applying latex paint with a q-tip and then rubbing off the excess. The dark spots are from adhesive used to attach these to a display background.

Barry

Dave and Abdul,

Thank you both very much. I can see where my next gift project is leading! My wife is huge into scrapbooking so we have printers capable of 14 x 44 (rolled paper) and lots of...

Thanks again Dave. All the vector lines are black.

I was hoping that someone has had a similar experience and has found it to be a Microsoft update or something like that. It was working fine and...

I have used mugs from Ikea with great success. Their item number is 115514 and the mugs are less than $1 each. I used the rotary attachment on my laser. I set the speed to 100 and power to 80 and it...

I have used "Rub 'n Buff" and had very good success with it. It is available in many different colors and can be found in many craft and hobby shops. I got mine at Michael's.

Barry

Dave,

Thank you for the quick reply. I had checked the vector sort and it was on. It is only supposed to effect when the outer vectors are cut so that inner cuts are made first. I turned it off...

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This started happening today. The last time I ran a specific job on my laser it vectored in the order that I specified in my print job....