I made my first attempt to engrave and cut Rowmark today. I was using the 1/16 Laser Max matt black over gold.
I started off with the recommended laser settings on the Rowmark website, but they turned out to be way off for my machine, which let to a lot of testing. It took quite awhile to come up with settings that seemed to work for me.
I was expecting to engrave through the cap layer and see the gold below, similar to anodized aluminum. When I did that, I only saw a pale tan color. After a great deal of experimenting, I finally had to engrave very deeply, almost coming through the back side, to see any gold color, and then it was dull without much color. Not at all like the brilliant gold color on the back of the sheet.
Flipping my workpiece over, I can see that I nearly went through the back side, but any less than that didn't have any gold color. I didn't see any help for this on the Rowmark website.
Am I missing something?
Thanks,
Ric