Rastering small words into wood?

[Bert Kemp]

version 9 or below so more people can see it and help, also just insert file here if not to big

[Lee DeRaud]

version 9 or below so more people can see it and help, also just insert file here if not to big

All that does is introduce more variables: we need to reproduce his problem, which is with X7.

[Bert Kemp]

Well that will limit who can help sorry id didn't think of that

All that does is introduce more variables: we need to reproduce his problem, which is with X7.

[Mike Null]

Lee,

I was merely seeking your opinion as you seem to have some expertise on the matter.

[Lee DeRaud]

I was merely seeking your opinion as you seem to have some expertise on the matter.

As with most things, any perceived expertise on my part is only what Jerry Pournelle used to call "the relentless application of logic".

[Allan Longson]

Ok, I've narrowed the problem down to an issue with the ULS driver not behaving as it should at certain settings eg:

Throughput = 4, Image enhancement disabled, print is NOT OK for certain fonts
Throughput = 4, Image enhancement manual, print is ok (font is fat even with very low settings for contrast)
Throughput = 5, Image enhancement disabled, print is ok
Throughput = 5, Image enhancement manual, print is ok (font is fat even with very low settings for contrast)
Throughput = 7, Image enhancement disabled, print is NOT OK for certain fonts
Throughput = 7, Image enhancement manual, print is ok (font is fat even with very low settings for contrast)

I have always had image enhancement disabled because I've found that fonts print out truer to shape this way. With the logo I am doing I wanted it a little bit finer so chose quality over throughput and this is when the driver screws up and only with certain fonts. The local agent can't explain it because if it was a tuning issue I should get the same issue at any throughput with any font when image enhancement is disabled.

So thanks for your help folks, persistence at experimenting with many different settings and combinations has got me a work around.
For reference, the 1st line was Avalon bold, the 2nd Avantgarde, the 3rd Arial. The 2nd and 3rd lines would have print issues but the 1st line never did, I suspect this is because it was bold (I haven't bothered trying to replicate faults for this font at normal).

[Mark Taylor2]

Windows 10? Can you try this on a Windows 7 machine? I'm hearing that Windows 10 is still having driver issues in that they are either non-existent or there's issues with them. Supposedly the big release coming up in July (it's the "Anniversary" release so I think it's July) will fix most of the driver issues.

[Allan Longson]

Unfortunately I don't have a Win7 machine I can try it on after upgrading everything to Win10. I do have an XP machine with an older version of Coral on it in storage (backup system) so will dig it out, update the driver and then try and see if I can replicate the issue. It will be a couple of days before I get to it.
Looking forward to a Win10 fix, having to reinstall the ULS driver every time Windows updates is a pita.

[Keith Colson]

Hi Allan

I am in Auckland and have the exact same machine. If you want to drop around sometime with your Corel file we can have a play here is you are interested. I have been doing very fine engraving on this machine for quite a while. e.g. circuit boards etc. You can find my details by googling "edns group"