Hi All, I can make stamps decently on my 80 watt, but I am looking for a setting in lightburn to improve the thickness of my letters so the resulting stamp more closely matches a laser print from the same file. Right now, my letters are Approx 1/2 - 2/3 as thick as what a laser printer will print. I have my ramp set to .0250, speed is 300mm/s, max power is 65, min power is 15 and I have properly adjusted/set my offset for running at 300mm/s. The letters are clean, just a little too thin compared to what the computer generates. Yes, I can add a stroke when creating them, but if there is a setting to tweak the thickness, that would be much more efficient for production. Lettering is Arial Regular 10.5pt
Printer fonts work in points, Lightburn text works in mm. You might try Ariel Bold to give your letters more “body”. There are fonts that look like Ariel that have slightly different physical properties (Gadugi is very close, for example). Or you can play with height and spacing in Lightburn.
I can understand that, but ive already converted the fonts to outlines, so there isn’t any type left, just vector outlines, and the laser cuts them thinner than the printer prints them. That is why Im looking for a setting.
In CAD, a draft or chamfer (essentially identical in concept to the LB ramp) can be applied as either additive or subtractive. I don’t know how the ramp in LB is calculated/rendered/executed. . If you remove the ramp, do the letters cut the size you expect?
Then use Fill instead of Line. That should give you solid letters.
I am using fill (its a stamp, so it is reverse cut) but my letters are turning out slightly thinner than intended.
If they are already converted to paths, maybe you can use the Node Editing tool.
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