Help - vertical or Horizontal

[branard]

Can someone tell me what is going on here? is this supposed to vertical or horizontal? Did I mess up a setting? Thanks

[dklgood]

Welcome to the forum.
Can you explain your question in a bit more detail? It looks like you are going to engrave your design at a very high speed on a narrow item. Your engrave speed of 4000 is quite high.

[branard]

Thanks for your reply. I was just wondering about e shading around the picture how it is grayed out.

[dklgood]

The faster your engrave speed, the smaller the area available for your design and the larger the grayed out area. The printhead needs room to slow down, stop, change direction and accelerate again for every line of engraving. If you reduce the speed of your engraving, the margins representing the unusable area will shrink and the usable area of the bed will increase. This only affects the horizontal.

[eflyguy]

I don’t think I’ve ever used above 1000 except when testing when the higher speed came out.

[rbtdanforth]

If you are looking to put a light mark on thin paper at full power and high LPI then 4000 might be the speed you need. When using 1355 LPI and full power on a variable engrave on thin acrylic I have used 2500 speed as 1000 speed would be way too hot for that circumstance.

I like the results of full power and high LPI but am among a minority apparently but unless you are working with extremely thin material you are unlikely to need even 2500 speed.