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Looking forward to this fix. I have several engravings where this will help and gimp can be tedious …In: engraving issue
6 years ago
I was seeing the same effect on one of my engravings. I used gimp to adjust the brightness and cont …In: engraving issue
6 years ago
I get noise in many of my prints and I found the only I can compensate is to use gimp to reduce the …In: First Sample Prints
6 years ago
OK - a bit of work in gimp and some tinkering in Inkscape finally gave me another print that looks a …In: Another gerbil print
6 years ago
Do you think you will be adding the X and Y offset back in to the plugin? I think it is a great ide …In: X and Y offset
6 years ago
The print I chose to test the new plugin had around 40% white space and the 4x6 inch print went from …In: Beta update of raster plugin
6 years ago
After several more failed prints, per your advice I swapped out my USB cable with a new 4 foot one a …In: gerbil failed 1/3 through print
6 years ago
Nice job - knocked a lot of time off of my print and the quality is just as good. I will continue w …In: Beta update of raster plugin
6 years ago
Hi Paul,
I noticed that in raster2laser_gcode.py there are 2 instances of log.write that do not h …In: gerbil failed 1/3 through print
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Here is another example with the same settings as my last post. The gerbil engraving even shows the …In: This photo gave me a lot of shades of grey
6 years ago
The picture was imported at 381 dpi.
Resolution = 15 Pixel/mm
Color to Grescale conversion = 0 …In: This photo gave me a lot of shades of grey
6 years ago
This is a photo of my wife with an African grey parrot and it is the first I have done that gave me …In: This photo gave me a lot of shades of grey
6 years ago
Hi Tim,
After I finally got my K40 running again I used your rose for my first test. I …In: What am I doing wrong? (Nothing now)
6 years ago
I replaced the PSU and ran into intermittent problems whether using the original control board or th …In: gerbil stopped working
6 years ago
I see the same positive effect with line 416 set to
if matrice[y][x] >=1 and matrice[y][x] < …In: Grayscale conversion leaves pure black as white
6 years ago
It's interesting that I only see this effect with greyscale resolutions 8 thru 128. At a resol …In: Grayscale conversion leaves pure black as white
6 years ago
Thanks for the encouragement on fixing the PSU. I look forward to the schematic. I have a new PSU …In: gerbil stopped working
6 years ago
Thanks Paul - Part of the problem might be the PSU after all. The laser quality dropped way down an …In: gerbil stopped working
6 years ago
I was trying a test print today and my gerbil has stopped working. For a wwhile it would initiate p …In: gerbil stopped working
6 years ago
Laser commands can be entered in the black window in the lower left. Type a $ and you should see th …In: CNCjs
6 years ago
I have seen this on my WIN10 system when the port was in use - for instance if I started a print and …In: problems trying to cut
6 years ago
Thanks Paul. I have increased the timeout values to 1.5 - my laptop is dedicated to this process so …In: gerbil failed 1/3 through print
6 years ago
I will try this print again at a speed of 1000 first and 750 if that does not give better results. …In: Still getting used to Inkscape but the Gerbil results are great.
6 years ago
First step completed - I always send to a file first to see how big it will get. This one is 86.3MB …In: gerbil failed 1/3 through print
6 years ago
I was printing a picture at 15 pixels/mm at speed=1000 and about 1/3 through (about 4 hours) gerbil …In: gerbil failed 1/3 through print
6 years ago
On my Windows 10 system it is C:\Program Files (x86)\Inkscape\share\extensions.In: installing plugin?
6 years ago
Is the $30 value something that could be added as a setting on the Raster Gcode extension panel in I …In: Another gerbil print
6 years ago
I think I can go a bit faster - this is darker than I need - maybe around 850. At least I am starti …In: Another gerbil print
6 years ago
OK - I see the reasoning now. The higher speed lessens the intensity of the print. 750 looks much …In: Another gerbil print
6 years ago
This is an engraving of one of my father's (George A Gale) etchings called "A Dead Whale O …In: Another gerbil print
6 years ago
Turns out I did not to go thru hoops with my WIN10 system. The driver came up initially and I was a …In: WIN GATE: WIN10 does not install drivers!
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I see the GRBL folks have bumped the file size limit up from 10mb to 100mb - any chance they can bum …In: File size limit
6 years ago