evansd2
September 30, 2018, 9:25pm
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What @timjedwards said.
Spend the time to read the forum threads on tiles, it contains so much information . There is no way all of your questions haven’t been answered many times over.
I picked up some cheap ceramic tiles at Home Depot ($0.16 per 4x4 inch tile!) and played around.
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This is 225 DPI, 400 speed, full power on a Pro.
After etching, I painted over it with purple Sharpie and wiped away the excess with rubbing alcohol. The ceramic under the glaze is really porous, so it soaked up the ink.
My Glowforge showed up last week. Unfortunately, I haven’t had time to play with it as much as I’ve wanted. I’m trying different materials before deciding on what everyone is going to be getting this year for Christmas.
Okay, so as some of you know, there has been this craze of lasering ceramic tiles. I got kind of sort of obsessed with doing them and kind of went overboard doing a whole bunch, some listed here and my previous process up to this point: Ceramic Tile Mania!
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That doesn’t even show all of the tiles I’ve done that I ran out of space for on my desk @Janerlea , settings: …
All pulled from this not-so-complicated search:
https://community.glowforge.com/search?q=tile
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