Epilog Fusion Pro 36

The Epilog Fusion Pro 36 is a 80W C02 and 50W Fiber Dual Head Laser Cutter. It features 165 IPS (4.2 m/s) engraving speeds with 5G acceleration, to provide the fastest engraving and quickest job completion possible in the industry.

The Fusion Pro line includes Epilog’s revolutionary IRIS™ Camera Registration System which provides laser operators a real-time image of the engraving table to quickly and accurately position their artwork on even the most uniquely shaped items. The Fusion Pro IRIS System also includes an additional camera to precisely cut jobs with pre-printed registration marks.

Epilog Laser Dashboard, Firmware, and Job Manager

Technical Specifications

Epilog Fusion Pro 36 Material Settings

Work Area: 36” x 24” (914 x 610 mm)

Max Material Thickness: 9” (228 mm)

Laser Spot Size: 0.004” to 0.007”

Laser Tube Type: Dual Source

Laser Tube Wattages: 80 watts CO2 & 50 watts Fiber

IRIS™ Camera System: 2 overhead + registration

Wireless Connectivity: Included

Included Lenses: 3” Dual Source

Resolution: Flexible from 75 - 1200 DPI

Maximum Engraving Speed: 165 IPS (4.2 m/s) with 5G acceleration. Computer-controlled in .001 increments up to 100% Color mapping feature links Speed, Power, Frequency, and Raster/Vector mode

Print Driver & Software: Laser Dashboard™, Epilog Job Manager™

Internal Memory: Store multiple files up to 1 GB. Engrave any file size

• Acrylic
• Anodized Aluminum
• Ceramic
• Cloth
• Coated Metals
• Corian
• Cork
• Delrin
• Fabric
• Fiberglass
• Glass
• Leather
• Marble
• Matte Board
• Melamine
• Mother of Pearl
• Mylar
• Painted Metals
• Paper
• Plastic
• Pressboard
• Rubber
• Tile
• Wood
• Wood Veneer

*CO2 lasers will mark bare metals when coated with a metal marking solution. For more information, visit Epilog’s page on metal marking.

• Acrylic
• Cloth
• Corian
• Cork
• Delrin
• Fabric
• Fiberglass
• Leather
• Matte Board
• Melamine
• Mother of Pearl
• Mylar
• Paper
• Plastic
• Pressboard
• Rubber
• Wood
• Wood Veneer

Mark a wide array of metals and engineered plastics with an Epilog Fiber laser including:

• 4043 Steel
• 6061 Aluminum
• ABS
• Brass
• Copper
• Glass filled Teflon
• And Many More!

Visit the Epilog website or consult the premade cut settings located in the documents portion of this wiki to get an idea of what we offer to mark with the Fiber laser. If you are unsure if you are able to mark your material, feel free to consult a staff member on if we can mark your material.

The Epilog Laser Dashboard is a powerful tool that controls both the position of your file as well as the settings used for cutting and engraving.

Thickness: For the Thickness option, measure the thickness of the material you are using to engrave or cut, and input the number into the Thickness box under each individual process. The table will automatically move up or down so that the top of your material is the correct distance from the bottom of the focus lens, right before running the job.

Plunger: When a job is set to the Plunger option, the plunger will measure the focus distance at the first place on the job that the laser will fire. The table will automatically move up or down so that the top of your material is the correct distance from the bottom of the focus lens.

Off: This is the default option for Auto Focus. If “Off” is selected, the table will not move up or down when the job starts. When set to Off, you must use another method of focusing, since the table must be in focus before running a job.

Manual Focus: You may also focus the table using the Manual Focus Gauge or the Auto Focus button on the machine’s touchscreen. This option is only useable if the Auto Focus is set to Off in the Laser Dashboard.

Split by: Select either “Color” to move every color in the graphic to separate processes (useful for color mapping), or “Hairlines” to manually move .003” (0.077 mm) or thinner vector lines to a separate process.

Merge with: Merge the current process with another process layer.

Process Type: Choose between the three modes of operation (this is interchangeable for both engraving and vector cuts):

• Off: This setting will tell the laser to ignore any items within this process.
• Engrave Mode: Used for engraving or marking materials. Typical uses include engraving clipart, scanned images, photos, text and graphic images.
• Vector Mode: Selected when you are running only cut lines or for use with the Red Dot Pointer for previewing the job processing area.

Resolution: Can be set anywhere between 75-1200 DPI. Recommended settings for this are already included in the Epilog Dashboard.

Speed: Determines the travel speed of the carriage and is adjustable in 1% increments from 1 to 100%. The slower the speed, the deeper the engraving. Speed settings are heavily dependent on the hardness and the thickness of the material being engraved, with harder materials requiring slower speeds for deeper engraving.

Power: Determines the amount of laser energy that is delivered to the piece being engraved and is adjustable in increments from 1 to 100%. The higher the power, the deeper the engraving.

Frequency: Only available when the Fiber laser option is selected. Controls the number of laser pulses that the laser fires per inch of travel. The frequency is set in the dashboard and can be adjusted from 1 to 100%. A lower frequency number will have the effect of less heat because fewer pulses are being used to engrave the material.

Dithering: Dithering is used only for Raster engraving and has no effect on vector cut lines. This setting defines how the dot patterns will be engraved in raster images that contain grayscale images, blends, or color. The Dashboard offers six different dithering patterns to enhance your engraving projects. The default mode is Standard. This mode can be used for all images including photographs, but some images improve when engraved with other dithering patterns.

Unidirectional: Set engraving to run left-to-right only.

Precision Sync: Enhances engraving quality, but increases run time, by making an invisible box around the engraving. This means that every engraving line in this process will have the same stroke length.

Cycles: How many times to repeat this process.

Laser: This allows switching between using the CO2 and Fiber lasers. To see more about their different use cases, visit the Material Safety Guide.

Thickness: Measure the thickness of the material and input the number into the Thickness box. Active only when Auto Focus is enabled to Thickness.

Offset: Offset allows you to focus at any point above or below the surface of your material. When engraving acrylic, many users like to focus above the surface to produce a “softer” finish to the engraving. Offset allows you to do this automatically. A positive value will move the table away from the focus lens. A negative value, such as -.095, will move the table closer the focus lens.

Engrave Direction: This feature applies to engraving only and allows you to engrave your project either from the top-down or the bottom-up direction. In standard top-down engraving there can be a large amount of engraving debris generated, especially on materials such as plastic, wood and rubber. As the debris moves toward the exhaust plenum, some of it collects in the area that has just been engraved. Bottom-up engraving prevents the debris from collecting in the freshly engraved spaces.

Registration: This button is for assigning Registration marks on your artwork.

Split by: Select either “Color” to move every color in the graphic to separate processes (useful for color mapping), or “Hairlines” to manually move .003” (0.077 mm) or thinner vector lines to a separate process.

Merge with: Merge the current process with another process layer.

Process Type: Choose between the three modes of operation (this is interchangeable for both engraving and vector cuts):

• Off: This setting will tell the laser to ignore any items within this process.
• Engrave Mode: Used for engraving or marking materials. Typical uses include engraving clipart, scanned images, photos, text and graphic images.
• Vector Mode: Selected when you are running only cut lines or for use with the Red Dot Pointer for previewing the job processing area.

Speed: Determines the travel speed of the carriage and is adjustable in 1% increments from 1 to 100%. The slower the speed, the deeper the cutting. Speed settings are heavily dependent on the hardness and the thickness of the material being cut, with harder materials requiring slower speeds for deeper cutting.

Power: Determines the amount of laser energy that is delivered to the piece being cut and is adjustable in increments from 1 to 100%. The higher the power, the deeper the cutting.

Frequency: The frequency setting is only active on vector processes, and controls the number of laser pulses that the laser fires per inch of travel. The frequency is set in the dashboard and can be adjusted from 1 to 100%. A lower frequency number will have the effect of less heat because fewer pulses are being used to cut the material. Lower frequency rates are helpful for products like wood, where charring is evident at higher frequencies. High frequencies are useful on materials like acrylic where a large amount of heat is desirable to melt or flame polish the edges.

Beziers: This setting fine-tunes how the path of the laser follows each point in a curve when vector cutting.

Vector Sorting: Choose between the three different vector sorting options:

• None: Vector line cutting order is determined by the order they were created.
• Inside/Out: All internal vector paths in the file will be process prior to the external vector paths. For example, if cutting the letter O, the inner oval will be cut before the outer oval.
• Optimized: The laser will process the vector lines looking for the next closest node for quicker vectoring.

Cycles: How many times to repeat this process.

Laser: This allows switching between using the CO2 and Fiber lasers. To see more about their different use cases, visit the Material Safety Guide.

Thickness: Measure the thickness of the material and input the number into the Thickness box. Active only when Auto Focus is enabled to Thickness.

Offset: Offset allows you to focus at any point above or below the surface of your material. When cutting acrylic, many users like to focus about halfway into the acrylic. Offset allows you to do this automatically. A positive value will move the table away from the focus lens. A negative value, such as -.095, will move the table closer the focus lens.

Registration: This button is for assigning Registration marks on your artwork.

Raster Engraving: Raster files will only engrave and will only be effected by the raster settings. In general, engraving is roughly 2x - 4x slower than vector cutting.

Vector Cutting: Files of this type will utilize the cutting settings, also labeled vector settings, to cut along a line that is defined by a vector image.

Vector Image: An image that is composed of lines and points that can scale up or down easily without any loss of resolution or pixilation. Vector images are easily created in software such as Adobe Illustrator or CorelDraw.