COREL VS ILLUSTRATOR FOR LASER ENGRAVING HOW TO
Submitted Designs not up to the above recommendations may require editing or even redrawing altogether, there is an extra fee for this service, ranging from simple touching up, to a total redraw of your design, you will be advised of this prior to your ordering and advised the scale of service you need to select in the shopping cart. In this tutorial, well show you how to prepare text for laser cutting in Adobe Illustrator.
Thin fonts will need to have a contour applied to make them heavier. Black filled areas work best where possible. The scanned painting is then traced into vector format using Illustrator Trace to give an image for engraving.īear in mind when creating designs for laser engraving, that you do not use thin lines in your design, the laser burns deep, so thin areas may not make an imprint in the wax. The final painting is then re-scanned at 300 dpi, line art - fine quality mode, to give a good jpg image to work with for engraving.
COREL VS ILLUSTRATOR FOR LASER ENGRAVING FULL
The drawing on the left was scanned at 300 dpi and printing onto white gloss A4 card at full size, hand painting into a stencil effect using black and white Gouache paint, as the paint is opaque, you can paint the white over the black. There will be a surcharge for any additional artwork that needs to be rectified prior to engraving.įINE DETAIL within your design will not be engraved as deeply as bold areas and may result in your artwork being rejected for use as a wax stamp. We can assist with all aspects of your project, from material sourcing to the final assembly. Our laser-cutting machines are equipped to work with paper, foam, rubber, plastic, phenolics and other materials. PLEASE VIEW YOUR ARTWORK IN 'PREVIEW and OUTLINE' mode - both views should look the same. CorelDraw, Adobe Illustrator and several other platforms. Think text and lines will result in a very shallow engraving which will not show up very well in the sealing wax.Īs we engrave from Corel Draw Files - we have to import files from Adobe Illustrator, for some reason we find that the size can come in smaller than originally created and will need to be re-sized. MIN LINE / TEXT WIDTH - We recommend at least 1mm or more, the bolder the text and images the deeper the engraving. NO OVERLAPPING IMAGES - please combine and weld All artwork is reversed at the engraving process, please don't submit a mirror image for engraving.ĪDOBE ILLUSTRATOR - PDF, AI, EPS, SVG VECTORīLACK ONLY on a white background, the stamp edge represented by a RED circle or shape of your stamp.ĪLL FONTS must be converted to an OBJECT as we may not have your font on our systemĪLL OBJECTS on ONE Layer only - No Multiple LayersĪLL OUTLINES Must be EXPANDED - and inner lines removed.ĪLL PATHS must be closed within your drawing - as the laser is unable to engrave thin lines. When emailing artwork please name your files with your first and last name or company name. Black and white with sharp, clean lines and require no retouching. Instructions for submitting your own artwork and creating your own designs - all artwork should be sent via email (no drop box links accepted)Īll artwork supplied must be 'Production Ready'.
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