In this article we will look at how to take a customer supplied artwork in a Doc file and import it into CorelDraw. Once we have imported it in we will vector the artwork. Because this name badge is going to be done on reverse material and be done in 2 painted colours we will need to separate the logo into colours, which is why I am vectoring the artwork, and than laser each colour and paint each colour.
I will be using Google Docs to open the word doc for those that do not have Word on their computers.

How many times have you brought an object into CorelDraw only to see a low resolution rendition of the image. I know I have have and there is a reason. Typically to try and get all the objects on the screen our default view is 100%. 100% view is based on the document not the image. To be able to view the image and see a good quality image we will need to zoom in it. Note: this is different in Corel PhotoPaint where the zoom view is based on the object not the document.

One of the problems that you will encounter after you install CorelDraw X4 or X5 is that your default pen width is set to .007. This creates a problem when you want to create a cut line for your laser. This is because most lasers will only cut a vector line that is less that .007. A vector line that is thicker than .006 is considered to be a raster line. For this reason it is advantageous to set the default pen width at hairline. This is easy to do in CorelDraw.

When you are doing laser engraving or sublimation (sawgrass driver) you need to turn off your colour correction and work in the RGB colour space. In this article we will address this setup.

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