Setup, not engraving, is where the week goes in most trophy and award shops. A Colorado shop owner times it honestly: 45 minutes of layout and data entry per roster job, fifty jobs a week, laser idle the whole time. He covers plate sizing, font scaling, hairline cuts, and why the usual workarounds only fix the geometry, never the names. Then what happened when a 45-minute setup became three minutes.
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