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How to Quickly Make an Engraving Fix

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

Introduction

Have you ever pulled out an engraving and wished one section was engraved a little deeper, but you've already moved the piece? Here's a quick way to fix it by using Epilog's IRIS camera and creating a secondary process!

Isolate Text

This initial engraving looks good, but the text portion could be deeper! We can isolate the text to improve the result.

laser engraved plaque without using isolate text technique

Turn off the camera.

laser dashboard camera feed off

Ungroup your artwork.

ungrouped artwork in the dashboard

Select the text and Separate by Selection. You’ll see two processes listed now.

select the text and seperate by selection

Turn off the photo process.

turn off photo portion of artwork

Adjust Settings

 

Adjust your settings for the deeper engraving.

 

Turn the video view back on and line up your artwork with the engraving.

input laser parameters for isolate text technique

And print the file to the laser.

laser engraved plaque with isolate text technique

Now it’s perfectly lined up and looks ready to sell!

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  • ID:
    TA-71
  • Date:
    03/31/2025

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