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Hi all, I've been out of the loop for some time. I will soon have access to an Epilog laser cutter, and will be doing some experiments with laser precreasing.
Any suggestions for paper to use or experiments to run? I'll report back.
Posted at 11:57AM, 31 March 2009 PDT
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Hi forrest,
I have Epilog laser settings for scoring/engraving elephant hide paper - when you get around to having access hit me up with an email and I'll send them on over. I've done a bit of this before, so I'd be happy to share some of the pros and cons that I've run into thus far.
Also I highly recommend grabbing a copy of Alex Bateman's "Tess" software, because it generates PS/PDF crease pattern output that you can use to create great foldable tessellations that are practically impossible to do by hand.
Posted 38 months ago.
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Weirdly, I am getting trained to use an Epilog laser cutter on Tuesday! Would love to compare notes with you two.
Posted 38 months ago.
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Hi Eric, just got your book, it's great!
So, can other types of paper be used? What kind of power and speed settings do you use? Do you do two runs to crease the front and back separately, or crease it all from the front?
Posted 37 months ago.
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hey guys i was just wondering which version of the laser is being used and if a large college would be likely to have one lying around?
thanks
-tim
Posted 33 months ago.
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Hi, I just got an Epilog 30 watt laser cutter. I'm trying to score a dotted line on 110LB cardstock. If I used a dotted line, it does not even cut it (does not recognize it - I'm using illustrator) If I use straight line (no dashes) it cuts instead of scores. I'm using 60% speed, 10 % power, 10% frequency. Any suggested settings for scoring the paper. Any help would be appreciated.
Posted 3 months ago.
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