Unwanted Lines @ Zero Degrees When Burning An Image

So i recently burned an image to a mirror with my 50W JPT fiberlaser after having corrected my straightness of my bed and the levelness of my galvo.

The image was exported from Illustrator at 240mm x 240mm @ 318dpi. In LB i specified 318dpi resulting with the output equaling the input with the number of pixels.

I burned the image at 2000mm/s, 100kHz, and 40% power.

I tweaked the image using LB’s adjust image settings. I forgot what tye two settings are on the right, but the values were 10 and 1000. I used Atkinson as well.

It burn came out pretty good, despite the tweaked image being a bit too white, resulting with too much material being removed. The unwanted lines at zero degrees is not good though. Some are very pronouned and others not so much. If you look closely you can see the passes.

Any idea what could be causing this? Dpi too low? Too high? I dont see these lines in the preview.

I uploaded the specs for my laser. It says that my machine has a minimum line with of 0.01mm. Im thinking that maybe I should increase the DPI and maybe burn the image slower?

Thanks.





If you exported the image at 310dpi, you should enable the pass through option on the layer or Lightburn will dither it again…

Could it have been 310ppi (pixels/inch?)


What material are you using? It appears rather clear…

The numbers on the right are probably frequency and q-pulse rate…

This is a very good series on how to engrave photos, but it’s very clear on what you can expect for dpi with a given material/laser… works for any laser… he does it on his fiber…

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