Quote Originally Posted by Jeremy Brown View Post
First off, thank you everyone for all the help, I honestly didn't think it would be this difficult to do things with cermark. I'm lasering a new one right now, its looking like a at least an hour and half to complete the engraving. Here are the steps I did this time.

Used rubber gloves the entire time.
-cleaned with lacquer thinner
-cleaned again with denatured alcohol
-shaked the cermark can for a solid minute
-sprayed the lightest coat I could (unlike before I didn't have any runs)
-Let it dry for a good 15 minutes
-Although my other attempts were using 1 bit black and white files, I turned the driver to black and white only.
-Power: 100
-Speed: 4
-PPI: 1000
-image density: 6
Where did you come up with the 4% speed number? That's painfully slow. 90 minutes run time? I hope you aren't selling them! No need to engrave for 90 minutes. Do a 1/4" square with the settings. Adjust, do again, until you find the fastest possible setting where it sticks. Once you have that, you can engrave the whole image. 4% seems way too slow.