If one corner of an engrave looks crisp and another looks faded or overburned, the bed or the material is probably not level. Here is how we check it in the shop.

A good mask keeps smoke stain off the surface and makes cleanup faster. Here is how we mask wood, leather, and acrylic in the shop, and when we skip it.

Overscan, scan offset, and camera alignment solve three different LightBurn problems: smeared fill edges, zipper lines, and artwork that is not quite where the overlay said it would be.

The LightBurn material library keeps proven settings ready to apply. Pair that with a clear use of Fill vs Line, and your layers stop fighting each other.

Photo engraving on a CO2 laser is less about a magic setting and more about the image mode, the artwork, and a test on the real material. Here is how we approach it in LightBurn.

Ghosting and double lines usually come from mechanical slop or a scan offset that needs a tweak. Here is how we tell the difference and fix it.

There is no universal power and speed chart that fits every CO2 laser. Here is how we use test grids and a material library for wood, leather, and acrylic.