Having trouble with ceramic tile engraving using the Ray5 10 W laser. Using 6x6" tile sprayed lightly w/flat black primer. Copying a Snippit picture converting to PNG. Brought over to LighBurn 2.1. Running as Immage: Speed 1000, Power 100%.Single pass. Contrast +11 Brightness 0, Gama 1.5, DPT 317. Focus is correct and lense is clean. All I get is a light grey immage. No blacks or deep contrast. I’m new at this and any help would be welcomed. Note the original picture is of a brown and white dog.
This can be many issues. What mode are you using? Grayscale, Stucki, Jarvis, others? Have you run a material test to determine the best settings (settings for speed, power, dpi all can change based on mode). Have you watched any Norton Tile method videos? Can you post an image so we can help? Are you using invert/negative mode? Laser model and power?
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I’m using Jarvis. I’ve tried several different settings. Decreased speed. Increased contrast. I’m not familiar with invert/neg mode. This 10W Ray5 has a bit of a learning curve. Not sur I’m making much headway.hopefully you all have a tone of patience for a beginner.
Images are a challenge and will move you along the learning curve, but you need perseverance and deliberate attempts. I do recommend that you watch some Norton White Tile and Norton Black Tile Method YouTube videos. Every image, tile, and paint layering can impact the results, so it will be next to impossible to have someone provide the perfect settings to get photo quality results. That said, there are some amazing works of art made with tiles with a single paint color and others with layers of different paint colors.
Also look for official Facebook groups for your laser if you use Facebook. Those groups tend to provide more how to and settings help than you will find here, as your problem isn’t likely to be Lightburn specific, so it might not get as much attention.
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Other than the lasers beam color, any paint that has enough TiO2 in it should work. TiO2 is usually white and turns black when lased.
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