I’m new and need help. Playing with an anodized tag the other day and I cut a tag with a short name and phone number on it… don’t know how but the tag came out great (also failed to save it, duh) so I don’t have the settings. Anyway the tag came out nice for a first try, my laser outlined my text and phone number great (it left the red color on text and number just great). Anyway I have tried to cut another and I can only get lines or fill on the name a number (no anodization left in these areas). any ideas what setting I have wrong?
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I’m going to assume the problem is that you want the background removed and the text to remain painted.
If this is the case, you just need to add a circle slightly larger than the tag on the same layer as the text.
If this isn’t the case, I’m not sure I’m seeing what you consider a problem.
Either way, both have some symptoms that lead me believe you could increase power or reduce speed a bit and maybe tighten up your line interval slightly.
Yes, I am looking to leave the text the original color of the tag, Ok, just so I make sure… 1. put in a circle, cut setting slower and Fill circle on the cut. 2. text and number setting on Line. This is my next try. Thanks for your help, I really appreciate it… got a whole garage full of tests 
I think what he was saying is to increase the Lines Per mm in the Cut Settings window. This will decrease the line interval. It appears you are getting no-burn spaces between your passes across the disc.
And yes, put it in a circle and use Fill mode. To get the burn pattern on the pink one, I think you already did this.