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Laser Rat · 02-01-2007

Greetings All;

I posted a while ago mentioning that we are awaiting delivery on a laser. Most of the work we will be doing will be our own in house vector cutting, but we have had a number of enquiries about raster engraving. So far we have gotten some really low res files from clients who have no idea what the difference between 72 dpi and 300 dpi is. What seems apparent now is that we might have to create the vector files we need. I have read (here and elsewhere) about the basics of what's required to do that. I have Coreldraw 12, which I am very new to. But I am hearing from a lot of folks that Illustrator is the main program out there. I have a reasonable amount of experience with CAD programs but very little with graphics programs. If I only had time to get familiar with one program, should it be CD or AI? Any advice greatly appreciated.

Cheers, Rat

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Laser Rat Registered User Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 14	Coreldraw vs. Illustrator Greetings All; I posted a while ago mentioning that we are awaiting delivery on a laser. Most of the work we will be doing will be our own in house vector cutting, but we have had a number of enquiries about raster engraving. So far we have gotten some really low res files from clients who have no idea what the difference between 72 dpi and 300 dpi is. What seems apparent now is that we might have to create the vector files we need. I have read (here and elsewhere) about the basics of what's required to do that. I have Coreldraw 12, which I am very new to. But I am hearing from a lot of folks that Illustrator is the main program out there. I have a reasonable amount of experience with CAD programs but very little with graphics programs. If I only had time to get familiar with one program, should it be CD or AI? Any advice greatly appreciated. Cheers, Rat