Hi Chuck
Let me also state again that I am very much satisfied with my laser and with the value for the price. I just feel that I am paying a price for mistakes made by Signwarehouse and i cant even remember if their was as much as an apology for this.
I set up my machine on my own and i'm training myself. I new i had to do this because of my location. I have not as yet required any tech assistance. It also placed less burden on the rep. At the least my package should have been complete. And we all make mistkes but their is a way to deal with it.....I'M SORRY... i mean mistAkes..
Anyhow Chuck, when i saw the problems you were having i was eager to try the stamp mode on my machine.
First I tried your file in stamp mode.....It cut and engraved as it should.
Then i created a completly different file.... send it to print in stamp mode....it cut and engraved as it should.
Then i reduced the size of the stamp, since i was troubleshooting and did not want to waste time and material. My next attempt at the stamp produced only a vector cut. Aha... it's related to size.
After fiddling with size of engraved area and size of cut line in all directions and combinations, It came down to this....When the width of the cut line is decreased beyound some threshold(in the x-direction), the file does NOT engrave, but only cuts. I am not sure how this is related, but it is.
Is it related to the 'SCALE FACTOR' in corel 12? Dont no.
I reduced slightly the width of your file and the same thing happened (cutting and no engraving). Increased it and it engraved and cut as it should. Both files had different threshold value though.
After a while I realised there was no need to actually cut the stamp to know the result. The stamp always engraved first, so once the file is sent and the LASER DISPLAY only shows the vector setting it will only cut. If it shows the raster setting, it will cut and engrave. I did also adjust the pitch in stamp mode to make sure it was not related to that.
Feel free to request any other info on this...
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