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April 1st eh? :p

Most impressive!

I really must get me PhotoGrav...

Thanks Saravana,

I always convert my text to filled shapes, out of habit mainly as I often email a proof to my customers for checking and this avoids any font problems. So it's looking more...

Thanks John and Mike, I'll try both approaches and let you know how I get on. Fingers crossed!

Frank:
Have tried both CMYK and RGB black with similar results. Though you are correct, CMYK black does tend to result in a much duller finish.

Dee:
I've only been using fills and quite large...

Hi all,

I've been having a few issues lately when useing Cermark to mark stainless steel. I'm getting some bluring around the edges of any objects I engrave. This is more noticeable on lettering....

I was engraving a surface with a slight curve, so when it was on the normal it reflected and etched the lens, when off axis it missed the lens and started melting the lid.

And after all that, yes...

Just a word of warning when marking naked stainless steel, the laser WILL reflect.
I once tried what you're doing now... about a week later I noticed melted distortions on the undersite of the lid...

WOW!

I love the detail. The weathering and the mud on the step... very impressive!

Thanks David!

I'll work through the things you've suggested and see if that helps. I sure do hope so. I find Illustrator much more powerful and integrates will with the other ( Photoshop,...

Hi all! It's been a while since I've posted here.

I'm having a bit of a problem getting Illustrator to behave when printing diretly to the laser. Usually I export from Illustrator to pdf, import...

Could be the fact you have no air assist, but the edges do seem a little wobbly even for that.
Try cutting out a square to see if the wobble is confined to one axis only?

Sorry I wasn't clear there. My lack of knowledge is not with Corel, but the laser settings that give the best impression when using less than 100% black.

On my Epilog I currently use 100% black,...

A question to those of you using the ~80% black method. What setting do you use?

What's a Swiffer Duster?

EDIT:
Google is all knowing. It's a giant blue alien!

I once had the same error as you're getting. Turned out we had a virus that was playing games with any program we ran. Might be worth while scanning your machine.

There's a good, free, online...

Nice save Darren!

I'll have to remember that one for the next mirror I wreck :)

The main reason this wont work is the nature of the materials you're engraving. The materials will behave differently if the laser is on them in a short powerful burst or a longer weaker one. The...

That's ... disturbing.

Most laser's probably aren't spacious enough for a person anyway. Though if if they're silly enough to want to be branded, I'm sure they won't mind a bit of amputation to...

My 2c

I would not go for the upstairs room, especially if it's carpeted. The odour from the materials you burn will be near impossible got get out ( I speak from experience here ) even with a...

Here's a visual for you

To find unsharp mask:
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And use these settings:
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Then you want to convert to black/white dither parrtern
Find that here:

I know the newest version of Illustrator CS3 can read in those files. I'm not eaxactly sure whate version the SWF files need to be in temselves though.

Post your file on here or email it to me...

to bring back, or change, your colour palette go to:
Windows > Color Palettes > Default RGB Palette

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Thanks muchly. This may come in handy in the future.

Joe, almost. That was a Hexacle.

A Pentacle has 5 points. 71449