I have a client who needs to test designs for a packing insert. I used heavy posterboard, 0.45 mm (0.018 in), white color, bought from Michael’s. The settings that seemed to work the best for a 50% depth score and a good clean cut were:
Score: Speed 500 Power 15
Cut: Speed 250 Power 40
I haven’t tried a lot of other settings for cutting; I found this one while trying scores.
Etching seems to work well at 1000 speed and 10 power at 240 LPI.
Masking does not seem to be required for these settings.
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Have you done anything w the poster board to cut shapes all the way out? What settings do you recommend for this?
The settings I used are in my original post under “Cut”. This is for a cut all the way through the material.
I suggest you use these for a starting point as things may have changed in the two years since I did this.
Just tried those settings and they worked just fine. I did end up lowering the score power to 10, but that may have been because I used a different brand/thickness posterboard, the power at 15 went almost clear through on some corners of the test I did. Thank you for taking the time to post these settings!
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