Maple Wood Lasering

[Sylvia Mossbrucker]

Hello Everyone,

I am doing a project with maple and was wondering if anyone had any advise on what can be one to make a logo appear darker on the wood? I am using both vector and bitmap images so on some i have changed my fill to 80% vs. 100% fill which does seem to help the logo appear more consistent and darker, however Im having a problem because the logo is very shadowy, and light. I have burned with my epilog 36EXT 120 watt at 100% power and 100% speed and its still not coming out very promising? HELP!!

[Mike Null]

The first thing I would do is lower the speed and raise the resolution. You may also have to reduce power as strange as that sounds.

[Tim Bateson]

I find on some woods, that a quick pass to burn through the finish and/or outer layer, then a slower high DPI pass will generally give a good burn. However on some woods like Birch or basswood you may never get a good burn. Then you have to turn to color fill.

[Dee Gallo]

I got a good dark burn on a clear maple cutting board with 100 power, 40 speed - but that was on a 25w Epilog.

[Niklas Bjornestal]

Try to move it out of focus a bit, and engrave with lower speed and lower power. I usually use about 50/50 when engraving wood on my 25W (32W true power) mercury.