Fusion Galvo Laser Machine

Epilog Laser System Initial Setup

Configure your system settings before you start using your new Epilog.

Step 1: Turn on Your Machine Begin by turning on your laser system. The power switch is located on the side near the back of the machine for all models: Fusion Maker, Edge, Pro, and Galvo. For the Fusion Pro 48 and Fusion Galvo G100, there’s an additional key to (...)

05/14/2026

Sending Your First Job to the Fusion Galvo G100 Laser

How to Send Your First 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, (...)

04/02/2026

How to Permanently Save Jobs on Your Laser Engraver

Learn to save the jobs you use most often, directly on the laser itself.

How to Save a Job at the Laser Saving a job to your laser is quick and easy. This lets any operator access and run a popular job, even if they are not familiar with the file. After sending a job to the laser, you can see it in the (...)

04/01/2026

Image Resolution and How it Affects Engraving

Discover how changing your DPI will give you different engraving results.

1200 DPI resolution is used for projects that need the best engraving quality. It is ideal for very small fonts or when deep engraving is important. How do you know which DPI setting is right for your project? Print quality is often determined by the resolution of an image, and (...)

04/01/2026

Bitmap (Raster) vs Vector Graphics for Engraving

Learn the difference between printing raster and vector files.

Raster Images Let’s begin by talking about raster images. A raster image is an arrangement of cells, called pixels, which form an image when displayed on screen. This deer image is an excellent example of a raster image. It looks like a highly detailed picture, but is actually made up (...)

04/01/2026

Use a Jig to Pre-Engrave an Item for Customization Later

Learn how to use a jig to save time on your most popular laser engraving projects.

Setup the Artwork Here we are creating a jig to pre-engrave four leather notebooks. We’ll add customized names to each one later. The red lines are the outlines of the notebooks we’ll cut out in a jig. We’ll cut an arrow at the top left corner so (...)

03/31/2025

Using Color Mapping in the Epilog Software Suite

Save time by setting up multiple passes with different settings.

It’s easy to color map with the Epilog Dashboard. Prepare the Artwork for Color Mapping For this file, we want to score the red numbers and cut out the blue outlines. Once the artwork is ready, Print the file to the laser. Everything has come over in a single process (...)

11/11/2025

Using Margins to Preview Your Engraving

Use this technique to quickly fine tune your engraving.

For a helpful tip, we’ll show how to use margins in the Epilog Dashboard to preview the engraving to make sure our photo quality is ideal. Prepare the Artwork We’ll be engraving this photo on a wood plaque. First, we’ll process the photo in PhotoLaser Plus. (...)

03/31/2025

Center-Center vs Custom Center Engraving

Learn about preset positioning to center your artwork along with techniques to center offset graphics.

Using Center-Center There are many ways to use Center Engraving on the Epilog Laser Dashboard. Let’s take a logo we want to engrave at the center of a coaster. In the Epilog Dashboard, choose the Advanced Tab. Next to Centering Point you’ll see a list of all (...)

03/31/2025

How to Quickly Make an Engraving Fix

Using Epilog's IRIS camera to increase depth or improve engraving!

Isolate Text This initial engraving looks good, but the text portion could be deeper! We can isolate the text to improve the result. Turn off the camera. Ungroup your artwork. Select the text and Separate by Selection. You’ll see two processes listed now. Turn off the photo process. Adjust Settings (...)

03/31/2025

Creating Custom Shaped Artwork

Learn how to create custom-shaped artwork using the Epilog Laser Dashboard.

Let’s start creating your custom shaped artwork by placing your part on the table of the laser. Then bring the part into focus using the focus menu. Once the red dot pointer aligns with the vertical line, your part is in focus. For this tutorial will be using CorelDraw as (...)

03/31/2025

Using Bartender Variable Data

Learn to create and mark variable data using Bartender.

Import Variable Data We have our file for a 5” x 3” serial tag setup in Bartender. There are two pieces of variable data on the tag: the serial number field and a scannable barcode with the serial number. We also have an excel file with a list of serial (...)

03/31/2025

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Epilog Laser System Initial Setup

Sending Your First Job to the Fusion Galvo G100 Laser

How to Permanently Save Jobs on Your Laser Engraver

Image Resolution and How it Affects Engraving

Bitmap (Raster) vs Vector Graphics for Engraving

Use a Jig to Pre-Engrave an Item for Customization Later

Using Color Mapping in the Epilog Software Suite

Using Margins to Preview Your Engraving

Center-Center vs Custom Center Engraving

How to Quickly Make an Engraving Fix

Creating Custom Shaped Artwork

Using Bartender Variable Data