Sending Your First Job to the Fusion Galvo G100 Laser

How to Send Your First Job to the Laser.

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Introduction

Introduction

It’s time to send your first job to the laser. We’ll walk through a step-by-step tutorial on taking your file from design to engraving. We’ll be covering the software you can use to design your file, how to set up your page and position your graphic, how to send the file to the Laser Dashboard, choosing your settings, and sending the job to the laser.

Choose Your Design Software

Epilog’s laser systems work through the Epilog Laser Software Suite, built on an open-architecture design so you can create your artwork files in many different graphic software packages, including CorelDraw, Illustrator, AutoCAD, Bartender, Engravelab and many more. Choose the software that you’re most comfortable with, so you don’t need to spend valuable time learning a new program.

Sending a Job

Here we have a stainless steel asset tag we’re engraving on that is 3” x 1.5” in size. There are two popular options for page size: either setting it to the size of the piece you are working with or to the size of the engraving table. Either method will allow you to position your artwork easily.

Position your artwork

If you have the F163 lens installed, this will be 4” x 4” engraving area. With the F254 lens installed it will be 6” x 6” engraving area. As you can see, we can set up multiple tags across the engraving bed if we use the full table size.

Add multiple tags for multiple engravings

For this file we’re going to just engrave one tag, so we’ll set the page size to the size of one tag.

Set page size for one tag

Once you’re happy with the placement of the graphic, print the file.

In the Printer drop-down menu you’ll find the Epilog Engraver that was added when you installed the Epilog Software Suite. Select Print.

print the file

Laser Dashboard Settings

The job will appear in the Laser Dashboard, Epilog’s interface between the design and the laser where you’ll set up all of your settings. Here we can position our graphic using the camera for positioning.

Position using the camera

For the material settings, you can use our common materials list to get started. Click the Folder with a down arrow icon to open the materials list.You’ll find multiple materials listed here that you can use as a jumping off place for fine tuning your own material settings.

Choose material preset

Choose the settings for the appropriate lens, F254 in this case, and the type of mark you would like to achieve. We want a white polished mark for this tag. Click the Import button to use these settings.

We can easily adjust these settings as needed, and print the file to the laser.

Fine tune settings