Full Version: I Am A Cermark Expert...

From: Jer (DIAMOND) [#1]
 10 Feb 2007
To: ALL

We do a good bit of Cermark work and get good results most of the time. Every now and then when engraving with Cermark we get what I call a "flag" on the edge of a line or letter. It is kind of a little point or two sticking off edge of the graphic. Today I was working with multiple stainless steel plates and I got the "flags" on the same letters on each plate. Does anyone have any ideas on what is going on?

From: JHayes55 [#2]
 11 Feb 2007
To: Jer (DIAMOND) [#1] 11 Feb 2007

Jer - a picture is worth a thousand words. Can you give us a photo of this
problem. I do quite a bit of stainless steel myself and cannot say I have seen what your describing.

EDITED: 11 Feb 2007 by DGL

From: Dave Jones (DAVERJ) [#3]
 11 Feb 2007
To: Jer (DIAMOND) [#1] 11 Feb 2007

I remember reading a post maybe 6 months ago either here or at SawmillCreek about this issue. It didn't involve Cermark. It was an issue with Corel and fonts. Unfortunately I don't remember what caused it or what was suggested to fix it.

From: Harvey only (HARVEY-ONLY) [#4]
 11 Feb 2007
To: Jer (DIAMOND) [#1] 11 Feb 2007

I do not know if Xenetech has this feature, but ULS does, so I will mention it.

When engraving black brass, some script fonts have very thin descenders, which will not engrave through the top coat. Also some erratic edges to Helvetica, rare but there. ULS has a 'Clipart' selection in their driver which seems to fix all of those problems.

If it is a repeatable problem with certain letters, you might give this a try. Instead of the size font you are using for the offending text, go up 0.1 points in size. It will change the rasterization of that font and might get the line to cross the border to the next bit when rastered. Stinky way to do it, but it might work.

EDITED: 11 Feb 2007 by DGL

From: Jer (DIAMOND) [#5]
 11 Feb 2007
To: Harvey only (HARVEY-ONLY) [#4] 11 Feb 2007

I am going to look into that. I am not sure I can tie it to one font though. It happens so infrequently.

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