VLS vs ILS

Note: Observations are just that. Observations. They may not be right but hopefully with time and communal input we'll be able to better understand the limitations and advantages of either machine.

VLS 3.50 - 50w Desktop

• Bed size: 24" x 12"/609.6mm x 304.8mm

Advantages:

• The VLS seems to recognise the size of a raster and therefore, the laser head only moves the distance (along x-axis) the raster spans. This occurs to each raster in the job (so, assuming no two rasters are concurrent on the x-axis, the laser rasters the span of the black fill individually)
• Whereas the ILS' laser head actually travels the entire length of the document (eg: the x-value of the furthest vector point) regardless of whether there is rastering to be performed along it.
• This may be attributed to better/higher version firmware.