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Laser Etching a Laptop
ptorrone writes "I didn't really plan using a $20,000 laser cutter on my 17" PowerBook to etch a 19th-century engraving of a tarsier, a nocturnal mammal related to the lemur (also the vi book cover), but it seemed like it had to done. The results are stunning..."
It's a good thing that those Tarsiers are mainly insectivorous and do not eat Apples! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarsier
Firehed - Unfortunately, thanks to medical breakthroughs, common sense is not as common as it once was.
How much effort would it take to convert an epilog laser printer into a high-powered moonraker? :P
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...Is it just me or is O'Reilly trying to show us what geeks are going to evolve into?
You see, that's nothing. In my days, we used the bottom of tea mugs to etch random abstract art! Usually, the result was a series of displaced rings.
The creatures outside looked from Alt-Right to Antifa; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
If only one of his coworkers would of switched the image with "hello.jpg"
A laptop with large identifying markings is less likely to be stolen.
...voided?
Just think: you won't have to invite girls back to your place to view your etchings.
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Just imagine it, etching a goatse, with the apple in the middle.
liger. It's pretty much my favorite animal.
Because it wouldn't have fit into the machine, silly! Besides, it probably would have been hard to keep the sheep still while laser-etching another animal on it's hide.
Obviously, the animal to engrave using a laser would be a friggin shark.
What is better for identifying an item as yours? A tiny serial number laser-etched somewhere inconspicuous, or a huge lemur on the case that is not easily scratched out? It'd be cool if Apple were to see this and offer custom laser etchings on all of their notebooks.
The Christian Right is Neither (Christian nor right). See: Matthew 23, Matthew 25, Ezekiel 16:48-50
1) Guy wants picture from vi book on notebook
2) goes to some lab where they have a machine to do it
3) copyrights free image is imported into Coreldraw
4) Laptop is etched
5) picture is on laptop
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PS2:
6) ???
7) profit!!!!
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Laser etching for your mac. I saw this linked in another post and am now considering it.
The artwork was originally from a Dover book. Dover publishes books full of public domain art, along with their reprints of classic and out-of-print textbooks.
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Yes, that's 100% correct. Of course the magazines use lithography, where a rubber-faced sheet of about 44" x 60" is fastened over a rotating drum (this is called a press blanket). The metal plate is inked and the blanketed drum rolls over it, transferring an inked negative of the plate to the blanket. The blanket then rolls against the paper that is being fed through the press so that negative on the blanket gets transferred to the paper as a positive.
Each color of ink is applied separately with a separate plate- cyan, magenta, yellow, black, and then usually a glossy coating. Sometimes special metallic colors are applied in subsequent press units. So, you would never put the whole lemur like they did on one plate unless it was a black-and-white printing. This was a very SMALL plate laser etcher as magazines are pretty small and do not run on standard presses, which are about 40-48" wide and print things such as cereal boxes, beer cases, and the like.
Just "gittin-r-done," day after day.
EtchaMac have been doing this for a while
http://www.etchamac.com/
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I hope they got permission from O'Reilly to do this?!
You know things have gone down the crapper when people wonder about the legality of engraving a nifty picture on their own laptop. I mean, it's not like he's selling them.
So what were you planning when you placed your 17" Powerbook in the $20,000 laser cutter?