How to combine paths in illustrator

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@jbmanning5

but I also want to be able to print multiple at once which I can’t do if I rasterize.

You definitely can. Set it all up in your design software, select them all, object > rasterize and it will make one big image.

Or, someone correct me if wrong, you can just bring one rasterized version into the app and copy paste that for however many you need, and it will stay as the same operation and do them all at once.

If you rasterize each one individually though, it will treat each as a separate image.

Try these two posts from Tips and Tricks too in case that’s what you’re trying to achieve.

How to engrave multiple images at once... how engraves work and faster times

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Combine multiple copies of artwork for faster engraves

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