Jeff Saltzman
10-19-2010, 7:48 PM
OK, strange one here...
I imported a bitmap image (8-bit), set up some text, and moved everything to position. Looked great. This was to engrave on a glass; my first glass and first use of the rotary attachment. The rotary set up fine, focus... check.
Then I tried printing with vector off, color mapping off, set the raster speed and power, 300dpi, and ran it.... only the text came out.
I checked the bitmap and it seemed ok, but I tried importing a higher res source bitmap (300 dpi exactly, no scaling) thinking the first was too low res... but it still won't engrave raster.
Testing without the rotary attachment, I was getting the same result-- text engraving raster, but not the image. Then, just for kicks, I turned on vector... and it engraved the bitmap!
What's going on? I searched the forum and couldn't find anything. I've engraved 8-bit bitmaps before as raster and they worked fine. What am I missing?
Thanks in advance for any clues!
btw this is running from CorelDraw 10 (Windows 98), with an Epilog Summit 25W.
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Update 10/20/10: I got it engraving in raster mode, but only with a 1-bit bitmap image!
Not sure why I could previously engrave an 8-bit bitmap in raster mode, but I'm over the hump for now, engraving Mason jars.
Looks like a lot of folks read my first post, but no reply... was it that obvious?
I imported a bitmap image (8-bit), set up some text, and moved everything to position. Looked great. This was to engrave on a glass; my first glass and first use of the rotary attachment. The rotary set up fine, focus... check.
Then I tried printing with vector off, color mapping off, set the raster speed and power, 300dpi, and ran it.... only the text came out.
I checked the bitmap and it seemed ok, but I tried importing a higher res source bitmap (300 dpi exactly, no scaling) thinking the first was too low res... but it still won't engrave raster.
Testing without the rotary attachment, I was getting the same result-- text engraving raster, but not the image. Then, just for kicks, I turned on vector... and it engraved the bitmap!
What's going on? I searched the forum and couldn't find anything. I've engraved 8-bit bitmaps before as raster and they worked fine. What am I missing?
Thanks in advance for any clues!
btw this is running from CorelDraw 10 (Windows 98), with an Epilog Summit 25W.
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Update 10/20/10: I got it engraving in raster mode, but only with a 1-bit bitmap image!
Not sure why I could previously engrave an 8-bit bitmap in raster mode, but I'm over the hump for now, engraving Mason jars.
Looks like a lot of folks read my first post, but no reply... was it that obvious?