Suddenly my Horizontal print area is only 17" wide. It starts at 1.25 " on the left and ends at 18.25" on the right side (Vertical is fine, starts at zero, ends at 11.5"). Is this a camera calibration issue?
Does the available print area change if you adjust the speed of your operations?
Faster speeds reduce the area because of print head acceleration and deceleration requirements.
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Thank You so much !!!
I’m about to go bat shit crazy, I spend hours trying to make tight clean inlays which never turn out. And when I can’t stand it anymore, I spent hours trying to do photo engraving, which looks like crap - and I’m following the instructions as best I can.
Where do I go to learn things like the print head acceleration and deceleration requirements)?
instructions as best I can
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Support link at the top of every page here. First section is “Learn”… you were directed to it when you completed set up of your machine.
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We also have a forum member who put together an excellent collection of notes, links and, answers to common questions that is worth the time to check out:
What instructions are you following for inlay and photo engraving?
There are some good threads on doing inlays and engraving photos here in the forum. You can use the search to look for threads with keywords like “inlay” or “engrave photo.”
Be patient with yourself. Most of this takes some effort and experimentation to get perfect, even with instructions.
I am generally not doing things that push the cutting envelope for area or speed. So, I am not paying a lot of attention to changes on the minutia of that. I think this is still correct:
For getting photo engraving results, a lot of it is in the file prep. This post has what I think is essentially the current best practices:
There are different ways to do inlay. The inlay I have done so far has been by compositing pieces of roughly equal thickness cut all the way through (vs. cutting pockets in one material and filling with thinner material like veneer). That involves dialing in settings for the material (e.g. with New material cut test method ), adjusting for kerf (“kerf” is a good topic for a forum search – I generally start with .15mm/.006in. for hardwoods) and, flipping adjacent pieces (because the laser cuts at a slight angle – AKA “flipmating”).
Here is a recent short of me doing that kind of inlay:
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Thanks
I’m working I’m not helping I did a lot of those learning projects perhaps I should go visit it again
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