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Appendix D: Quick Start Steps
Your Hobby Series is ready to use if you have read the manual to this point and followed all of the
foregoing instructions. Please remember to use caution while operating the laser and make sure that
all accessories are functioning properly before running any job. The following instructions provide a
general workflow for taking an original design and turning it into a laser cut part:
Create your artwork/design in the software program of your choice (e.g.
CorelDraw) or use the Open Design View feature of RetinaEngrave 2.0.
1. Turn on the machine and accessories and wait for it to find an IP.
2. Once the machine has an IP (approx. 30s), launch RetinaEngrave 2.0 on your computer.
3.
Place your piece of sample material on the honeycomb.
4.
Focus the laser head onto the sample piece.
5. Close the cover. Never fire the laser with the cover open.
6. From CorelDraw, call up the print menu.
Select the “Full Spectrum Engineering” Driver.
If the “Pre-flight check” fails, check that both your document page size and printer page size match
the size of the work area, and that no artwork Is outside the boundaries of the page.
1. Once the pre-flight check is clear, continue printing to the software.
2. Your design will be loaded and then rendered by RetinaEngrave 2.0 under the default raster tab.
3.
Once you
have set the power levels and layer ordering to your liking, you can run the job.
