LightBurn Configuration Setting For PCB Manufacture

Solid-state lasers produce a rectangular spot, not the nice circular one you’re thinking of, so the narrowest cut will be different in the X and Y directions.

Stripping paint off copper will require testing to find the ideal combination of speed & power. A few Material Test patterns should help you get better results:

Also: make sure the machine has using good ventilation!

That is excessive, because the spot size will be on the order of 0.1 mm, which is 10 pixel/mm or 254 DPI. Using higher resolutions won’t produce much benefit.

The first picture looks like you haven’t yet measured and enabled the Scanning Offset correction:

But you’re off to a good start!

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