Glossary
Raster
Line-by-line area scan
Raster engraving fills an area the way an old printer fills a page: the head sweeps back and forth, firing line by line, and the image builds up from horizontal scanlines.
Raster time scales with area and line density (LPI), not path length — a big fill is slow no matter how simple the shape. Photos, logos, and fills are raster jobs; outlines are vector jobs.
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