Epilog Laser LEGEND 24EX 6000, Owner'S Manual

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Section 6: Using Your Legend System Quick
Setup
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Turning the jog/shuttle knob raises or lowers the table to move your work piece
closer to, or further from, the fixed focus lens. The table should be raised just to
the point where the manual focus gauge touches the work piece. Remove the
gauge when you are done focusing.
Pressing the Reset button twice will move the carriage back to its park position
and restore the control knob to the menu. You can begin engraving from either
the park position or the manual focus position. The position of the carriage will
not affect the position of your artwork.
If the item has a taper, pick an intermediate point between the highest and lowest
points being engraved. In general, the area of the material being engraved needs
to be relatively flat. If the area being engraved differs in height by more than
about an 1/8th of an inch (3 mm), the image will begin to look “fuzzy” or out of
focus.
Auto Focus
Most users prefer to use the Legend’s Auto Focus capability for focusing.
Set the Auto Focus on your computer in the print properties window of the
Legend print driver: “Yes” will enable the auto focus, “No” will disable auto
focus. When a job is started and auto focus has been enabled the carriage will
move from its park position to the point of first engraving or cutting. Because the
carriage moves to the start point before anything else happens, it is necessary to
have enough clearance between the bottom of the carriage and the top of the work
piece so the work piece and the carriage do not collide. Once the carriage is in
position, the table will automatically move up until the auto focus plunger is
activated. The table will then move down until it is the correct distance from the
focus lens. As soon as the focus position has been set, engraving or cutting will
begin immediately.
Note: Please be careful when auto focusing on irregularly shaped items. The
auto focus plunger must clear all edges of the work piece in this situation also.