Gerber P2C™ 1600 Cutters
User’s Manual
Operation
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2.4 SYSTEM SETUP
Refer to Figure 2-3.
2.4.1 CONCATENATION
The CONCATENATION feature increases the speed and cut quality when high
resolution data is being cut. However, when changing back to normal
characters, concatenation should be deactivated by setting the parameter to
0.
The active concatenation value is marked with an asterisk (
!
) on the LCD.
2.4.2 SMOOTHING
The SMOOTHING feature applies to graphics that have curves made up of
many short vectors. SMOOTHING smoothes the vectors to achieve a more
rounded appearance.
SMOOTHING is set to OFF by default.
2.4.3 EMULATE
The EMULATE submenu is used to select the cutter’s active cutting/plotting
language.
The Gerber P2C 1600 cutters support DM/PL, HP-GL and HP-GL/2.
The active plotting language is marked with an asterisk (
!
) on the LCD.
NOTE
The cutter’s active cutting/plotting language
MUST
match the active
cutting/plotting language set in the cutting software.
Always select a language that is supported by the host computer's
cutting software.
Whenever possible, select the DM/PL menu option which sets the active
cutting/plotting language to Houston Instrument Digital Microprocessor/Plotting
Language (DM/PL). This selection will allow the cutter to operate with DM/PL-
based cutting/plotting software. This language, having special command
extensions for cutting, normally gives superior cutting performance.
Select the HP-GL menu option to set the active cutting/plotting language to
Hewlett-Packard Graphics Language. The cutter will emulate an HP model
758XB plotter (with selectable origin, see 2.4.12).
