Texts becomes distorted or pinched once engraved

The texts becomes distorted once engraved. But the text in Lightburn is fine. Like in this image for example, the tail in the small letter g disappears. Meanwhile, in the words “& HOSTING” becomes pinched.

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machine: ALGOLASER MINI KIT DIY 5 WATTS
Material: plastic pen
speed: 6500 mm/min
power: 100%
interval: 0.100
passes: 1
WINDOWS 11

Is this enough? I am a newbie. Thank you.




I don’t see anything suspicious here. Maybe try with half the speed and half the power.

I don’t have this laser. If it were me I would check for proper belt tension.

What I see in your images is that the text is too small for the power used. It looks like your text in the second pix is “over burned”.

  1. Reduce your power
  2. Choose a thinner font, like not Bold. Arial has several thin versions.
  3. Choose a different font. With a 10w laser, I can burn 1mm readable text in Baltic wood with the ISO9 SHX font.
  4. Your text is not distorted.