Thanks, Kev and John.
Kev, I'm not able to see those JPGs - I'm guessing I have to pay now to see photos posted here?
I have since tried some 'mapping' of areas, and tested both machines- chinese and ULS.
The weird thing is with the 9"x4" plaques, the ULS was way quickler when I ran multiple vector inlines, and no rastering- 18 minutes- as opposed to 28 minutes was the best I could do rastering, while the Chinese big laser would raster in 24 minutes, but took 58 minutes to do them as thorough vectors- mainly fue the the slow speed curve settings I put in to maintain accuracy in that machine.
BUT when I tried the new 1/4 size option they now want, 4.5" x 2", the chinese machine can raster them way more quickly (8:05 min each) than the ULS can vector cut them (14 mins)- despite me generating new multiple inline vectors
That is running the ULS @ 500 ppi/dpi, and running the Chinese one at 0.05mm scan gap- or near enough to 500 ppi- 20 lines per mm, to get a good black on Cermark.
Kev, I did think about vector-cutting the snake, but there was so much text, that the head was going to be travelling over most areas anyway.
Thanks, though- yes 180 mm/s has been OK also.
Best wishes,
Ian
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