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The laser cutter we have is a ULS PLS6.150D laser. The You can save some time and money by seting up your artwork on you home computer and uploading the resulting .emf file into the laser cutter's computer. You can do this by downloading and installing the laser print driver on your home computer. The drivers are available for download here http://www.ulsinc.com/support/software-downloads and will work on any windows based machine. Pick . Pick UCP Installer and follow the prompts for a PLS 6.150D. You can should add the two 50W CO2 laser sources to get more accurate cut time estimates under the systems tab. Next you will print your artwork to the PLS 6.150D from your art software. Check that both lasers are selected. You then will click on the file folder icon located top middle of the main laser print dirver screen. A dialog box should appear. Use the export dto save your file to a thumdrive. When you get to the laser cutter computer open the laser print driver, click on the file folder icon and then import the .emf file. Click on the select button and you should be ready to run your file on the laser cutter.
The computer workstation in the 3-D printing room at Leesburg also has the laser printdriver and Corel Draw installed. You can follow the same process of printing to the print driver, saving the .emf file to a thumb drive and then inporting the file onto the laser comeputer. There is no charge for using the 3-D printing room computer workstation. . There is a dedicated computer for the laser cutter which has the drivers available on it.
The ULS website has a great materials list for what materials are good and bad here http://www.ulsinc.com/materials/
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