Now That I have the Epilog Radius up and running, you all are in trouble,, I will have a million questions.
Greyscales:
Typically, when laser cutting/engraving, "red" was cut, Blue was vector etch, and black was raster etch. (from my use of a ULS a few years ago)
The Radius printer driver does allow me to assign "power" and "speed" to individual RGB colors.
And the thickens of the line also determined if it was to go into raster mode or vector.
So if you have a blue line .001, but you turn the "red" parameters up in the printer driver (100% power, 1% speed), would it "cut" ??
Were the Red, Blue, Black colors chosen as design standards? or is there something typically in drivers/firmware that makes each color do a different task.
If I had a black line that was .001, that would really confuse things?
Greyscale:
As previously mentioned, I can assign laser parameters to upto 16 RGB colors in the printer driver.
How is greyscale handled in a typical American RF machine?
Does the engravers firmware recognize a "grey" and adjust the laser output? Or does the firmware "dither"?
Reading my machines manual grey scale is mentioned once under "clip art".
Wondering if a job has to be designated as "clip art" to grey scale.
Of course I will be doing a lot of hands on experimenting, just looking for some general theories to get my head wrapped around before doing some trial and error.
Thanks,
Nick