Harvested from the coconut's outer husk, coir is a naturally renewable fiber used in various products such as grain and produce bags, brushes, rope and doormats.

We'll start out by loading a 24 in x 18 in (610 x 457 mm) coir doormat into our Fusion Pro 32 80 W laser. Once our material is seated properly into our machine, we'll use the manual focus feature to bring the material into focus.

In CorelDRAW, we've set up our page width and height to match that of the 24 in x 18 in (610 x 457 mm) coir doormat and typed out our Halloween themed phrase, Trick or Treat, Wipe Your Feet. We then applied the CF Halloween font from Dafont.com to the text.

At the Epilog Dashboard, the first thing you'll notice is the Fusion Pro's live IRIS Camera view of the coir mat piece within the work area. The IRIS Camera is included with all Fusion systems, and this unique to Epilog feature allows you to quickly drag and drop your graphics where you want them to appear on a product and then print them in that exact location.

Within the Epilog Dashboard, we'll set up the parameters for the coir material. Note: Depending on your configuration and wattage of Epilog Laser system, we suggest running a few test engravings to dial in the settings for your specific laser machine.

With parameters applied and graphics printed to our laser, all that's left to do is press the Go button at the laser to engrave our coir doormat project!