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Reducing Fire Hazards with your Laser

How do I make sure my laser is safe from fire hazards?

This article will guide you through recommendations to reduce fire hazard with your laser. Your laser system uses a high intensity beam of light that can generate extremely high temperatures when it comes into contact with the material being engraved, marked or cut. Some materials are extremely flammable and can (...)

04/16/2025

Make Your Own FontBot

How do I create an image out of fonts, like a FontBot?

What is a FontBot? It’s a design you create from the letters and characters of a specific font. Designers have come up with all kinds of amazing robots and other creations using fonts, but what will yours look like? We’ll be giving a quick demonstration on how to create your (...)

03/31/2025

Everything You Wanted to Know about Fonts…and Then Some!

How do I use fonts in my designs for the laser?

Regardless of your design program, you’re likely faced with a myriad of fonts to select from when you’re creating a design. But how do you choose fonts? What types of fonts go with what kind of designs? How can you manipulate text and fonts to create appealing visuals? Read on (...)

03/31/2025

Creating a 3D Effect With the Laser on Acrylic and Glass

How can I use the laser to create a 3D effect on glass and acrylic?

1) This 3D effect will work for any block style font and many other types of shapes, but for this exercise we are going to apply the effect to the letter “E”. Start with a capital letter “E” to the specifications below. Font: Arial Black Size: 310 pt Convert to (...)

03/31/2025

Layering a Clip Art Image

How do I create a multiple level engraving effect from a piece of clipart?

In our 3D acrylic Sample Club download, we engraved parts of a clip art image on five cut pieces of acrylic. When placed together, the engraved acrylic creates a 3D effect because of the different levels of each engraving. In this article we’re going to show you how you can (...)

03/31/2025

Using What the Font to Identify Fonts

How do I identifiy a font in a document a customer sends me?

Have you ever received an engraving file without the font files included or the fonts are in a bitmap format? Every engraver knows the frustration of trying to match up a font to the sample that you receive from a customer. Corel has a new feature that will allow you (...)

03/31/2025

Duplicating Around a Center Point in CorelDRAW

How do I create a graphic with duplicated sections rotated around a center point?

The Duplicate tool in CorelDRAW is one of our favorite features because it allows us to quickly design many of our laser projects. For certain projects, we often customize the Duplicate tool to copy a design and rotate it around a specific point on the page. This is helpful when (...)

03/31/2025

Printing Mulitple Items with CorelDRAW’s Imposition Layout Feature

How do I create multiple items at one time without having to duplicate the image?

Corel’s Imposition Layout feature was designed so that you can print more than one page of a document on a single sheet of paper. This is a handy feature when creating magazines, manuals and other multi-page documents. We’re going to use this same tool to engrave several plaques to fill (...)

03/31/2025

Print Merge in CorelDRAW

How do I create several plaques with different names in Corel using Print Merge?

In our last discussion of Imposition Layout (see related articles), we showed you how to use CorelDRAW’s Imposition Layout feature to engrave several plaques to fill the engraving table without having to duplicate the image. Now we’re going to take this concept to the next level and add in the (...)

05/13/2025

Removing the Background from a Photo

How do I remove the background from a photograph?

Anyone who has engraved photographs has had the experience of someone bringing in a photograph with a dark background that has no contrast with the person that is in the picture. While you can fix a lot of the problems with software like Photograv, to really make the photo stand (...)

03/31/2025

Creating a Multiple Name Badge Layout using Print Merge

How do I create a PhotoLaser Plus file with a name badge layout using print merge?

One of the most common questions we receive is regarding name badge layout. Although it looks easy, finding a quick way to create multiple name badges can create some major complications. Since working with PhotoLaser Plus, we’ve discovered a great benefit of the software is that it does an excellent (...)

03/31/2025

Design Tips for Non-Designers

I'm not a designer, so how do I create great looking samples with the laser?

Depending on the engraving services you provide and how you operate your business, you may be required to produce different designs, either for your own sample purposes or when completing jobs for customers. This can make even the best engravers a little nervous – especially those who don’t necessarily consider (...)

03/31/2025

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Reducing Fire Hazards with your Laser

Make Your Own FontBot

Everything You Wanted to Know about Fonts…and Then Some!

Creating a 3D Effect With the Laser on Acrylic and Glass

Layering a Clip Art Image

Using What the Font to Identify Fonts

Duplicating Around a Center Point in CorelDRAW

Printing Mulitple Items with CorelDRAW’s Imposition Layout Feature

Print Merge in CorelDRAW

Removing the Background from a Photo

Creating a Multiple Name Badge Layout using Print Merge

Design Tips for Non-Designers