dan84
July 10, 2024, 10:58pm
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If you use the term “banding” when searching you will find some similar discussions in the past that might be educational. I’m not sure if any came to a useful conclusion.
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so i finally got my image to load. i am trying to engrave a photo on a canvas board, but getting significant banding.
speed 1000
power 99
convert to patterns
pattern density at 50
max margin optimization
lines per inch 225
1 pass
i didn’t spray paint it white first, its straight from the plastic. what should i be doing differently?
or should i not use canvas board and just use a canvas?
Hello All,
Wondering if anyone else has this issue, I did a 3D engrave on PG medium white acrylic and I got some banding that happened. I had seen this before but not as pronounced. I fixed this by scraping the bands down with a tool, however you can still see the banding.
What is strange is it happened like 3 inches up into the print for about an inch and a half and then again near the end of the print in the text at the top. The text was all the same color (so the same depth).
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Well, I tried engraving a different mirror type (back & front)…still bands; across Mike Tyson’s chest area, which wasnt in the original photo. I tried ceramic and wood and still getting bands. I believe that it has to be fluctuations in power.
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Anyone know what caused the symmetrical banding in the lines of the sky? I had done several earlier versions with no banding. The sky was too muddy so in his last one I went into the JPG file and cleaned up between the lines. (TOOK FOREVER with a two nib brush! )
The file rendered fine with no sign of the lines.
Setting: 1000/100 convert to dot @ 195 LPI (I’m guessing around 11:30 to 1200 am 01/21/19. (It was the last one engraved if that helps.) If it matters, each engraving was …
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