Laser-cut 'jigsaw' puzzle

It cost only $0.59to print a photo at Office Depot, by color laser,on regular lettersized office paper.

I sprayed 3M "contact adhesive" from a spraycanonto 1/8" thick MDF (medium density fiberboard).

I stuck the photo onto the adhesive.

I used a table sawto cut the MDF to 8.5x11" size to match the paper.

I put that into the lasercutter, cut a 20-piece puzzle patternin 5 minutes, and voila!

I recommend cutting the pattern first on plain paper (perhaps even a black & white laser printed copy of the image) to check alignment. Using material "paper" from category "paper," the cut took only 1 minute, vs. 5 minutes for the 1/8" MDF.

Notice the thin line of white at the bottom of the image of Andy in the puzzle that Andy is assembling. I carefully measured the margins and scaled my cuts to be within them. My document size was 8.5x11". But positioning the material on the bed was counter-intuitive until I went into print preferences and set the job size manually (8.5x11", my material's actual size) rather than let it shrink the job to the area which contained vectors. Personally I'd prefer this behavior be the default, and I'd like to hear why someone would prefer it otherwise.