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Any shopping tips you could share? I'd like to be able to cut 1/2" acrylic in one pass. You've also shown that the same laser will engrave a business card quite well.

Even more important, then, to spend your money wisely. This isn’t the move to make. Based on the feedback here, you should politely the decline the offer to purchase. Parts -will- come due to be replaced and the machine isn’t profitable enough to pay for itself as it ages.

Great questions and tips. This piece has rounded corners, so I have a bit of gutter between the pieces, rather that shared walls, which we do use on square cuts lines you mentioned. Colex does not come with a time estimating function. I believe it’s extra cost, so I need to check into that...

We have the 3hp router and acrylic edges on1/4" look clean but we do 2-passes and use media intended for CNC. In some instances we will do as you suggest: Run the tool an inch above the table and see what the time is. In this case, I have about 5 scenarios with varying size and media that I...

Sanity check, please. I’m estimating a 40mil styrene job, 4”x24” for 90 pieces, let’s say. I can fit 33up on a 48”x96” sheet. I don’t want to over produce, so let’s say 30 pieces per sheet I will cut out of 3 sheets. Thats 58” per piece so a total of 1,740 inches per sheet. Does my speeds and...

It’s not a steal knowing the eventual parts replacement costs. Remember, that $10k buys the pros -and- the cons.

Also, we lost jobs because of our slower turn times due to this machine. It is not speedy.

Do not do it. We just nearly gave one away during our upgrade to new machine. Replacement Coolant pumps cost $800. They fail. Printheads cost $4000. They fail. The final straw for us was the -2nd- time a printbhead control board failed. We paid $10,000 for a replacement, ONCE. When it failed...

Gigapixel is magic! We're going to add that to our toolbox. The output was amazing.

The challenge is that our client wants to use their own image, not a stock image.

Well, we're after a 240" x 120" print area using the attached file. A wallpaper size showed the crop zone after choosing the final dimension, so I'm attaching a PNG with the area of the image I chose for output. My email is lreed@abcoinc.com. I appreciate the help!

Thanks for the quick reply. We have a client with his own star photography to be enlarged to 240x120" and the file was 4mb. I need to give them some pointers or resources.

What tips can you share for either selecting or preparing images? We have a 240 x 120 wall and the client's starry sky image isn't good. I need to give them appropriate direction.

It's a giant leap over our 2015 EFI which was getting more expensive to maintain: $800 coolant pumps, $4,000 print heads....the $11,500 print replacement of two circuit boards is where we drew the line. Also, our morning startups were getting longer and longer, teasing out good nozzle checks. It...

Full circle, we've now replaced our EFI H1625 LED with the R1000, which complements our Latex 570. Loving it so far.

Thanks. I'll check this out in the morning. I appreciate the quick response.

Guess I didn't hit send on my reply: Where is the cut file saved when I select Colex as my cutter? Just curious where I pick up the data to feed into the Colex.

Just ran into an application that will be repeating, where we need some help: tiling large graphics in Onyx and pairing with our Colex flatbed cutter. In the attached graphic Onyx split up this file into panels with overlap. We trimmed manually and the installer overlapped. We're started to get...

The only stupid question is the one we didn't ask! Questions are awesome.

I'm not certain if my operator tried reversing orientation. I have a leftover printed piece from the job that is waiting for experimentation. Funny thing though: he's just one guy and actual jobs leave little time to just try stuff.