I know this has been discussed several times, but I've got follow up questions to some of the answers I've found...
My art is through CorelDraw X6. Mostly raster designs
Laser is a 60W Epilog Legend 36EXT
Laser is recently cleaned and alligned
Settings are typically 600 DPI, 100power 35-40 speed Dithered as standard or Jarvis
Cermark LMM 6000 in the can
Attached photos are Test runs, Decent results and poor results
I understand that some larger black fills tend to have issues from probably Higher temps being generate.
1. When a design is mostly simple lines with a couple of decent fills, is there a way to compensate to a happy medium?
2. Possibly more importantly, can you tell a difference in degradation, due to Too much heat vs not enough? I feel like the "not enough", whether it's due to application of cermark, or settings, tends to "smear" off and when it's too hot, it tends to speckle off? If you know, I'd appreciate it, because at times when it smears, I slow it down and it improves, but then one time it will reverse on me and I just don't know if I'm chasing the rabbit down the correct hole or not.
3. Is there anything I can do to the design that might help? The main logo I have regular issues with, when I'm doing the 1.5" version, it runs 95% without issues. When I'm running the 2.5" design, my success drops to maybe 75% success.
Thanks for any additional thoughts.
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