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Printing line weights

Asked by hyachts

I'm attempting to print from Inkscape to a laser engraver. According to the laser manufacturer, any lines thinner than .007 in. should be interpreted by the printer as a "vector" which, for the purposes of the printer, means they should be cut. Any thick lines or solids are interpreted as raster images and engraved. I cannot, however, get Inkscape to output something that the printer interprets correctly. The printer is designed to work with CorelDraw although they claim any vector graphics program will work. Is there some way to determine or configure how the line weights are being printed?

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Best mahfiaz (mahfiaz) said : 		#1

These should get printed as these are, I suppose. It's not clear, if you have tried setting the line weights to value needed.
Have you tried Stroke style tab in Color dialog (Ctrl+Shift+F)?
Do you print directly from inkscape? Sometimes printing from PDF is used.

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hyachts (samuel-hinckley) said : 		#2

Sorry, I should have been more clear. I had set the stroke to .001 in on the objects for cutting. I was never able to get Inkscape to print directly, but saving to PDF and printing PDF got me the results I needed. Thanks.

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hyachts (samuel-hinckley) said : 		#3

Thanks mahfiaz, that solved my question.