I recommend reversing the image. When its done, you can view it through the other side and the clarity is much better, especially if you use edge lighting LED strips. FYI for those asking - Diode lasers won't work on clear acrylic without some treatment because it goes through it.
Wrong, we have a LED light company we run for a living and made over 10000s LED Lamps. The scenario you mentioned NEVER happened. www.eplastics.com/blog/chemical-resistance-acrylic-plexiglass
Would a light coat of watered down dish detergent work as well as the alcohol, or better? Ive never used alcohol, but the detergent works great, just rinse under water, no rubbing.
@@jazzsheehandiode lasers are blue light so this method will not work because the laser light passes right through the acrylic. There are other hacks but all come with trial/error and inconsistencies.
Great, I have a photo which comes through to start at 72 dpi but , don’t know why starts also at 1034 mm which I resize to 100 mm width is this increasing the resolution of the photo????? Also the photo, like marriage photos the man is dark and the lady is white what’s best to get an even playing field here? Thanks
You‘re actually engraving it on the backside of the acrylic. If you won‘t mirror, it will look wrong after engraving, especially with fonts. If you engrave it on the front you will get a weird parallax effect.
@ImagR Thank you very much for the explanation. I did my first test and the mirror one looks a lot better. It actually looks like it has a depth to it. Question for you: I have a Lightburn file but it won't load into imagR. Am I doing something wrong? Thanks 😊
I recommend reversing the image. When its done, you can view it through the other side and the clarity is much better, especially if you use edge lighting LED strips.
FYI for those asking - Diode lasers won't work on clear acrylic without some treatment because it goes through it.
The image is correctly mirrored
Have to keep this in mind, just getting started this week myself but looking forward to these a lot. Makes sense viewing the reverse though.
I really appreciate it, it's very helpful to me
i come from vietnam
Could you do the same for Diode lasers please
I like your this video
It's very help for me
Thanku so much
Great video
You really don't want to use isopropyl after cutting with the laser as a common problem is crazing and micro cracking due to the alcohol
Wrong, we have a LED light company we run for a living and made over 10000s LED Lamps.
The scenario you mentioned NEVER happened.
www.eplastics.com/blog/chemical-resistance-acrylic-plexiglass
@@ImagR-Laser - Good to hear... but with 7+ years of cutting acrylic with lasers, this is a common issue
@@Novoworks Are you using Cast or Extruded? Big Difference!
@@James01520 - Of course Cast
Thank you for the lesson
awesome
I wish you have the setting for 10w diode laser
Would a light coat of watered down dish detergent work as well as the alcohol, or better? Ive never used alcohol, but the detergent works great, just rinse under water, no rubbing.
I did that before, but it was annoying to wash off all the soap from the acrylics. On alcohol i am way faster, and definitely don‘t get watermarks.
Hi,
Does this technique only work with CO2 or will it also work with diode lasers?
Did you ever get an answer? I’m curious too.
Sadly no reply
@@jazzsheehandiode lasers are blue light so this method will not work because the laser light passes right through the acrylic. There are other hacks but all come with trial/error and inconsistencies.
Verry good 👍👍
thank you
Does it work with 10w diode lasers too?
😍♥️🔥💥
Do you engrave on the face with plastic protection film ?
Thank you
Great, I have a photo which comes through to start at 72 dpi but , don’t know why starts also at 1034 mm which I resize to 100 mm width is this increasing the resolution of the photo?????
Also the photo, like marriage photos the man is dark and the lady is white what’s best to get an even playing field here? Thanks
I hve 130w laser so hw can I settle power n speed
How about if I wanted a picture to be done on glowforge for glass??? Can you give me a rundown?
What laser are you using.
I want to engrave a photo on a black tile not painted but black from tile seler, do i need to paint again or just process on ?
Where can you purchase the laser?
Good morning considering that you use the same RDWORKS software as mine where do I find the settings you suggest? thank you in advance
You mean the step intervall? By double clicking on the layer in the top right, where it says BMP next to it
@@ImagR-Laser no i mean invert option is disabled and which option pass through is enabled, i can't find to be able to verify
I hope you can help me
@@beltramaker these are lightburn settings, rdworks doesn‘t have passtrough or invert :)
@@ImagR-Laser ok sorry for the inconvenience, I bought the license and I'm trying to understand how to use it
Здравствуйте, подскажите пожалуйста на какой мощности и скорости производилась гравировка?
Wich errordiffusion do i have to choose? My Laser is asking me: Jarvis, Stucki, or Floyd?
ImagR did already the dithering. What software? Probably you should use none of them, something like „passtrough“ available?
Air on or off when engraving acrylic?
On
@@ImagR-Laser This is why I love this channel concise videos very helpful and you respond to comments thank you!
I can't see it should the air be on or off?
I used air assist.
@@ImagR-Laser thank you
Cool video! May I ask what is the purpose to mirror the image?
You‘re actually engraving it on the backside of the acrylic. If you won‘t mirror, it will look wrong after engraving, especially with fonts.
If you engrave it on the front you will get a weird parallax effect.
@ImagR Thank you very much for the explanation. I did my first test and the mirror one looks a lot better. It actually looks like it has a depth to it. Question for you: I have a Lightburn file but it won't load into imagR. Am I doing something wrong?
Thanks 😊
@@ClownfishDepot imagr only allows jpg/png/bmp to upload :)
How do you use the web site without creating an account?
Everyone can use the way I shown without an account.
Only difference with an account is that is does help the speed up the work abit but thats about it. Or if youre offline that helps also.
@@thatonegamer2709 wrong. You have no ads, cleaner design, more algorithms, more features
for a 130W co2 laser what is the best parameter engraving on that image?
you do noting the laser did it
Hi
a great video.
You have the hand for it!
What is the power of your CO2 laser?
Greetings and thanks.
Walter
80W :)
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