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[Rick (Technical Evangelist)]

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When to use the 'overscanning' option?

From our documentation: When engraving, the head is scanning back and forth. Because the laser has to accelerate and decelerate the head at the beginning and end of each line, on machines with limited power control this can cause darker edges than expected. Overscanning generates extra moves, past the ends of each line, switching the laser off before it fully stops, or even before it begins to decelerate, allowing the entirety of the engraving to happen at the desired head sp…