Hi Dave,

If your problem is innacuracy in the cut because of growth as you are cutting. You could create the outline where you plan on cutting the piece. Cut the piece out. Trace the edge, and fit the original image to the new out of original spec size that you end up with.

Use a set of location pins taped down to register the cut piece in the same location on the laser bed piece after piece, and run the image on the pre-cut pieces. If there is any error generated in the cut. You will have had the oportunity to adjust for it when setting up the separate imaging function.

Not having a laser, I am just theorizing as to what is going on, but it's clear in my head :) I am basicly just applying what we have to do when screen printing for registratration of odd shaped pieces. Your just imaging with a laser instead of a screen. We don't care if the shape we are printing on is exactly to tolerance, as long as we can center the image that we are laying down and and make it look nice. Seperate the cut from the imaging process, and I think you will be home free.

Brian G.