photos with HD4

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Jbenson
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photos with HD4

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Can someone tell me what I have to do to get my Shark HD4 laser to do photographs. I can do Vectprs all day long but unless I convert the picture to a vector (suck) it wont take it

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Re: photos with HD4

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What do you mean by it "won't take it"?

Are you having troubles with getting a good result with the Laser Picture toolpath or can't you get it to work at all?

Jbenson
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Im using the laser picture upgrade for Aspire/ Vcarve. It doesn't show the Shark HD4 post processor.

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Re: photos with HD4

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I just need to know what's a good photo program that can be used with my 3W laser attachment I got with my shark HD4

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Re: photos with HD4

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Nextwave has a program called Ready2Raster on their website. This does photos.

The laser post processor is available from Nextwave as well. You will need to download that to use with Vectric software.

Photos are a lot slower using the Vectric software. I highly recommend you run a few tests to get your settings down.

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