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75 watt epilog laser cutter

Manual: http://www.epiloglaser.com/downloads/pdf/mini_helix_4.22.10.pdf

workable materials

Laserable materials: http://www.epiloglaser.com/laserable_materials.htm
- for plastics:
  - thermoplastic delrin http://www.johnstonplastics.com/mech_delrin.htm
  - film mylar http://www.johnstonplastics.com/glaz_polyester.htm
  - thermoplastic acrylic http://www.johnstonplastics.com/glaz_acrylic.htm

Material size

18" by 24" (aka 45.72cm x 60.96cm)

eliminate the "fog" around things

Alexander's calgary flames had a fog around them - why? when looking how to print from Inkscape I found some info about this... some people called it a "halo"; didn't find out what the solution is.

Materials/Speed/Power settings

65/5/500 works for white and brown paper
- little more oomph, I had to separate some spots manually, but they may have been out of focus

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 == Material size ==
 * 18" by 24" (aka 45.72cm x 60.96cm)
-== cut from Inkscape ==
-Engraving/rasters from Inkscape works, but cutting/vectors doesn't work natively. (epilog goes straight to "done")
-Found a reference somewhere that this has to do with the printer driver subsystem. (reference?)
-To cut an Inkscape design:
-* set stroke style width to 0.001
-** .001 what? pixels can't be smaller than about .01 to still be seen
-* File menu, save-as, pdf
-** check "convert text-to-paths"
-* save
-* open PDF file
-* print as usual
 === eliminate the "fog" around things ===