GCC Technologies S290LS Series, Руководство пользователя

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Border (Advanced Page) [DEFAULT SETTING: Unselected]
In cases where you are working with a negative image (negative outline areas of your image
are engraved, rather than the positive areas), you may wish to include a border around your
image. To properly add a border, you will first need to Invert your design from the Options Page,
then check Use Border and specify a value for the thickness of the border you would like to
add to your design.
NOTE
If you wish to use the Border and Cluster function simultaneously, then the Border
Thickness value must be less than the Distance value specified in the Cluster setting.
Vector Function (Advanced Page) [DEFAULT SETTING: Normal]
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Normal:
This selection will not apply any special advanced vector function to your job.
This is the default Vector Function setting.
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All Raster Output:
This selection will instruct the print driver to process your entire
image as a raster engraving. Any vector lines within the image will be treated as raster
data and outputted as a raster engraving, similar to a dot-matrix printer.
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Inside out Cutting:
When performing a vector cutting job in which your image has one
vector cut area enclosed within another vector cut area, select the Vector Sorting mode.
This mode will automatically instruct the print driver to process the inside vector image
and moving outwards. If you try to process a vector image that has multiple layers without
using this mode, what may occur is the laser engraver may process the outer vector
cutting first, and any inner vector cutting will not be possible as your centerpiece material
may have dropped to the cutting table. This setting will always automatically direct the
laser to cut from the inner most vector shape and move outwards.
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Cutting Path Optimization:
This is a setting that will minimize your process time. When
selected, the print driver will analyze your image and automatically determine the most
efficient processing path to process your image.
Use Cluster (Advanced Page) [DEFAULT SETTING: Unselected]
This setting allows you to change how LaserPro S290LS interprets and processes individual /
independent areas of an image in order to minimize job-processing times. The Cluster function is
only applicable when multiple areas of an image are broken down and isolated from each other
(areas not touching each other, blank space in-between). Another condition that must be met for
the Cluster function is that these individual areas of your design must have some X-axis overlap,
meaning that they should be to some extent side-by-side with empty spaces between them. The
distance value can be set by the user and represents the limit or cutoff point in which side-by-side
objects will be processed in Cluster mode or not. If the distance between side-by-side objects is
greater than the
set distance value, then the individual areas will be processed in Cluster mode. Conversely, if
the distance between side-by-side objects is lesser than the set distance value, then the
individual areas will be processed normally (not via Cluster mode).
An example of an image that would benefit from the Cluster function would be: 2 squares
to be engraved, side-by-side on the X-axis with a 20 cm gap in between them. In this
scenario, you would want to enable the Cluster setting and set the distance to a value less
than 20. By doing
so, the laser will completely process one square and “leap-frog” to the second square, rather
than processing both squares simultaneously. The result: you shorten the processing time by