Hi I made a jig for 8 slate coasters. I’ve traced and feel that I have an adequate capture. When I query on time to print is says 5 plus hours - and I’'m perplexed as to how I can reduce these. I believe I’ve followed all the steps. I am very new to this so am feeling very intimidated. I am working from a MAC. Thunderbolt Laser Printer
You give us almost nothing to work with.
- Size of the coasters
- Image or vector (trace implies vector)
- What does your work look like, how much detail
- Can you show the image
- What are the speed and power settings
- Line, Fill, Offset Fill, Flood Fill
A 40 minute time per coaster may or may not be what you have to live with.
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Without seeing your designs first we wouldn’t know what to recommend.
That being said you still may able to reduce your burn times using some optimization.
See here:
WOW 40 min. per coaster?? I would find something else to burn 
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Lori
Do you have a border design on the coasters that is using up time traversing back and forth.
I had an image with border to do and it quoted 7+ hours and most of that was border work ,I separated the four sides and set to engrave separatel…and it reduced the whole job time by over 50%.
Also, wider Line spacing and lowering dpi can add a little time saving, along with balancing an increased power and speed setting.
Is this an RF machine?
Sometimes a good idea to make a screenshot of only the engraving parameters and post here for us to evaluate.
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