Good afternoon everyone, I’m noticing a few minor issues with the image quality when sending files to my laser from LB versus when I use Illustrator or Inkscape. The quality isn’t quite as detailed from LB as it is with the others. Is there a way to increase the detail in LB, whereas, it seems to be a bit higher by default in Inkscape or Illustrator?
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Share a bit more detail about the image you are using. You can adjust many of the options that control the production of an image when lasered. Tell us what you are starting with, and we can go from there. 
The following are worth review:
So, I’m actually using LB on my Epilog laser, which is a Fusion Pro 48. Up till recently, I’ve been using a cheap chinese laser and this one gets tons better detail and speed now that they’ve kind of started supporting LB. The issue that I’m noticing is that when I send a file from LB, the image will engrave with a good amount of detail, but when I export that same image and send it over from Inkscape, the detail of the engraving is quite a bit better. I’ll review the information you sent over, but was just curious if this might be a known issue.
I need to also say that the image I’m discussing is a vector image and my focus is dead on.
Jer
What is your procedure after you import the image to LB from other editing software. eg, you save the picture to your pc image folder and Import it to LB. What settings do you apply in lightburn before you hit Start.
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Honestly, unless my wife sends me a .png from Illustrator, I usually design in LB using high quality vectors or shapes directly in LB. If she sends it to me from Illustrator, I import and trace so that it’s vectorized and then work with it. Even the image that I imported and vectorized engraves better from importing into Inkscape and printing to the laser from there than it does in LB…I’m stumped because I’ve not had this issue before, but I’ve not compared since I bought the Epilog. I don’t need to use LB cut/engrave settings, because it is set once I “print” the image to the Epilog Dashboard…it’s a little different process than a typical Ruida controlled laser.
In your Epilog Laser, can you adjust the resolution? LB has that ability
I can. I engrave on 500 dpi, which hasn’t changed. I have kept the settings in LB to be the higher resolution for Inkscape, as my default since I started using it 4 yrs ago. It’s not a big deal, but would like to know if I need to start using Inkscape more for my more detailed engravings.
gonna run a test so I can show everyone what I mean.
Ok, so, I’m obviously am kind of a doofus. I just ran at test right next to each other and the quality is too similar to tell the difference. The top is LB and the bottom is the same svg from Inkscape with exact same engrave settings in the Epilog Dashboard. I welcome your thoughts, but the LB one looks a little “oversaturated”, which is I think the issue that concerns me. The clouding is just from the air assist, but not certain why it wouldn’t be the same on the one from Inkscape, but that’s another chat room. LOL
Is your file a raster engrave or a vector engrave?
Are you using the “Print” function in LB and sending it to the Epilog Dashboard?
If the answer is yes and yes, there shouldn’t be any difference between the output from LB and Inkscape.
It is a vector and yes, that’s what I’m figuring out. Maybe the difference is simply the variance in the wood itself.
Thats very interesting. At first I thought the font in the LB ver is a fraction bigger.
Then I thought the LB ver is darker so just appears bigger, but your settings are identical for both, so…is the black (color value) in LB darker than the Inkscape version and so giving a slightly more powerful burn.
Its the wood (sounds less nuts!)
I see a difference in the wood color under each engraving. Wood gets my vote too.
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I don’t know if this is related but I recall there being an SVG document resolution difference between Inkscape and Windows stuff with Inkscape defaulting to 92 DPI and Adobe or other stuff on Windows being 72 DPI. a 20 DPI difference to 92 DPI is almost 30% more resolution than 72 DPI. So that would be noticeable.
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It is actually 72dpi for Illustrator verses 96dpi for Inkscape. In my understanding, that has more to do size. When you print to the Epilog Dashboard using Lightburn, you can set the resolution of a vector engrave. You are also provided with similar choices as LB for raster engraving
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Yes, I’m familiar with those settings, but on normal vector images I leave the resolution at 500 and the dithering at standard, so the only difference is the image output resolution from LB to Inkscape. Are you using an Epilog with LB as well?
No, I use a Universal Laser Systems VLS6.60, but test most of my files in the Epilog Dashboard software. It works similar to the ULS UDP software that controls my laser.
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