Work with Offline Lasers

We have talked about setting up laser connections in the last section, but sometimes, you just cannot connect the laser, e.g. you have a workstation in a room which is far from the laser and without a network setup. In this case, you can send jobs to the laser with a USB flash: make your design, save the job to a USB flash, and read it from the laser.

There are two things you need to know when working in this way.

1. Set a correct draw area for designing
   The draw area should be the exact same as the work area of the laser.

   Click System Setting in the pulldown-menu Config.

   
   

   In the page Configuration, you can set the draw area in the section Page size.

   NOTE

   The software will update the draw area automatically when the laser is connected if the option Auto fresh page setting is checked.

2. Choose the correct laser controller
   Different lasers could be equipped with different laser controllers, you have to choose the corresponding controller in the pulldown-menu Model to generate correct jobs.

   
   

   NOTE

   The controller will be chosen automatically when the laser is connected if the option Enable auto is checked.

Refer to Laser Panel and the laser’s manual for more details on how to save a job to and read a job from a USB flash.