Set up EaglePrint

Before starting, you need to know that you can set up EaglePrint system wide or just for a specific project. In general, we recommend to do a system wide setup for the system settings and a group of job settings for your every day jobs, i.e. the model of the laser controller, the home position, the paper size and orientation, the coordinates and the job origin, the color mode, a group of cutting and engraving parameters etc, and do a customization for a specific project when necessary, e.g. change some cutting parameters.

Open the printing preferences from Windows settings to do a system wide setup, refer here for more details. Open the printing preferences from the print dialog of the drawing software, e.g. CorelDRAW, to do a customization for your current project.

Here we will guide you to set up EaglePrint step by step.

1. Set the model of the laser controller and the home position of the laser
   In the page Output, in the section System, choose the model of the laser controller of your machine to let EaglePrint generate proper data for your laser. And the option Home position must match the home position of your laser, otherwise, jobs will be in a wrong coordinate system, results in mirrored or flipped cutting or engraving.

   
   

2. Set the paper according to the work area of the laser
   The paper in EaglePrint represents the work area of the laser, and should be in the exact same size and orientation with the laser.

   In the page Layout, set the paper orientation.

   
   

   Click the button Advanced… to bring up the dialog where you can set the paper size.

   
   

   The pages start with CAD in their names are being there for being compatible with some old versions of AutoCAD. And the yellow exclamation mark means that the paper’s built-in orientation is different with the paper orientation setting and should be corrected.

3. Coordinates and job origin
   In the page Output, in the section General, check the option Programmed coordinates to let EaglePrint position jobs according to the programmed coordinates. And the job origin tells the laser how to position the job relative to the programmed origin. Refer to Coordinates and job origin for more details.

   
   

4. Colors in printing
   When printing, Windows will spool graphics in your design in black and white or in color, depends on whether the print driver supports color printing. In general, we recommend to set EaglePrint in color mode to support features like multi-colors cutting and get better vector graphics engraving results. Refer to Colors in Cutting, Colors in Engraving and Vector graphics for more details.

   In the page Paper/Quality, check the option Color to set EaglePrint in color mode.

   
   

   In the page Output, in the section Cut settings, uncheck the option CMYK to use RGB colors which are more consistent across different drawing software, avoiding troubles on assigning or setting colors when designing and recognizing colors in EaglePrint.

   
   

5. Job settings
   In the page Output, set cutting and engraving parameters for your every day jobs, refer to Job Settings for more details.