Besides rastering is there other ways to laser etched an image?

Besides rastering is there other ways to laser etched an image? My tiny diode laser didn’t seem to raster but instead just stay on for image and turn off for no image ( can’t think of right term right now)

you can do raster engrave, so vector the image and then convert each color into small lines

How would I do that in inkscape?

Yes you can in Inkscape. You need something like D in this link http://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/39705/cutting-multiple-lines-curves-with-a-closed-path-in-inkscape

There is a way to create multiple parallel lines but don’t remember how it’s. Called

@Ariel_Yahni_UniKpty that is what I think I want

@Derek_Schuetz this is the easy solution
http://wiki.evilmadscientist.com/Hatch_fill

@Derek_Schuetz http://picengrave.com