Cutting Board Printing

[cbrowning]

Hi everyone! I have made a number of items but I am having issues with cutting boards. I have an old recipe that was my great grandmothers. I would like to take the TEXT only and put it on the board. When I move the PDF over of the handwritten recipe, it prints the lines and the dots of the paper she wrote it on. It adds a neat effect, but I would really like to have just the text. Thoughts anyone? Thank you and Merry Christmas!

[cynd11]

That question has been asked quite a few times on this forum. Here’s a link to one of them with various suggested solutions:

Computer savvy folks!

I have a recipe that someone wants me to engrave on a cutting board. The recipe is on lined paper. What is the best way to remove the lines?

[marmak3261]

Here is my post on this issue.

Heirloom Recipe Engraved Bamboo Cutting Boards

Another of my dreams came true on a Glowforge. When I first saw the Flammarion Engraving cutting board topic I knew I would want to do a family recipe engraved on a bamboo cutting board to give out to my family. My brother Michael provided a photo of an old recipe hand written by my mom on the back of an envelope. I played with that a bit and did one board with those results. The recipe is for pot wurst, a meat hash that is thickened and extended with oatmeal. My mom’s parents made this every C…

You will need a bitmap editing program like Gimp or Photoshop to remove the things you don’t want in the scanned image.

Removing blue lines from a drawing: The rise of the colour channels.

Here is a long tutorial on one way to approach the problem. Say your ruler lines on the paper are a certain color. You can select just that color and it will remove everything of that color. Since the writing is most likely one color, it will leave the writing behind.

I use GIMP. It is not easy to get started in, but it is very powerful.

I sometimes just do manual erasing to get a clean image to engrave. You can do that in Paint, but that can be tedious.