1 Touch laser Marble/Wood Pics.

[Andrew Mammoliti]

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Just some testing this weekend.

[Andrew Mammoliti]

The marble used was a standard marble tile with lots of white marble in it. The wood was alder wood. Both were 1000 dpi and lens size was 0.001 spot size.

[Dan Hintz]

lens size was 0.001 spot size.
I assume this is for overlap? Typical spot size for a standard 2" lens is 5mils, so that's a lot of overlap.

[Andrew Mammoliti]

Yes for the banding, was getting banding with the 0.003

[Andrew Mammoliti]

This are with done with Richwood sales mable/granite pcs. These are the settings that Kevin sent me. Used 1-Touch to do photos.

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[Andrew Mammoliti]

Oh by the way, that is my wife and I on our wedding day two years ago. :)

[Andrew Mammoliti]

Hi Frank check these out, these are the same photo's as above but done with photograv 3. look at the diff. why do these look ghostly compared to 1 touch? all the settings were the same with the photo for each test.

Thanks Andrew

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[Frank Corker]

Andrew the last picture has too much power which is causing the picture to lose it's definition. I would be interested to know what the power to speed ratio is on your attempts. For granite using a 45 watt machine, my speed is always 100% but the power can very from 25 to 33.

Photograv will only process your picture. In version 3 I have found their power to speed settings way off and I still havent been convinced otherwise on certain materials. In version 2.11, granite for a 30watt Universal machine should be around 60 power to 100 speed at 250dpi and 45 power to 100 speed at 333 dpi.

Your universal one touch has been designed specifically for your machine, not having been given a file that has been processed with it, knowing what the differences are is difficult to comprehend. So, post your settings for all of us to view.

[Andrew Mammoliti]

Hi frank, I have a xenetech laser, the power and speed where the same for both photos as per specs from richwoodline. The power was 40% and the speed was around 35 ips. For both tests. It seems that all the photograv pics come out the same, loss of detail no matter what the power and speeds are. I have tried many settings and they always look the same with photograv 3. But with 1 touch there ok. So my ? Is why can't I not get a more realistic lasered photo with photograv 3? I even tried 300 dpi 500 and 1000 nothing works as good as the 1 touch. But I have seen on here some great results with photograv 3, so what gives?

[Frank Corker]

So my ? Is why can't I not get a more realistic lasered photo with photograv 3? I even tried 300 dpi 500 and 1000 nothing works as good as the 1 touch. But I have seen on here some great results with photograv 3, so what gives?

I don't know! Possibly the drivers with 1 touch work better with your laser. With some images, Epilog machines are able to print great pictures without the use of Photograv. The emphasis I would say is still down to how the image has been processed.

[Andrew Mammoliti]

well when i look at both photos after running them with the photo programs, i one bit b/w, it is clear that the are less dots in the pg3 one for sure. which means less details?

[Larry Bratton]

That last photo looks to me as if it has been over sharpened.
I'm with Frank, end results are dependent upon proper preparation and knowing some basic fundamentals. I can do a photo on granite,marble or acrylic that looks as good as anything produced in these expensive canned programs. IMOP as a former user of Photograv, use of these programs is just a way to short cut the process and when you do that, you save time but you lose control of the process.