Ricoh RW-480 PLOTCLIENT HDI/ADI Software Manual page 59

Analog to the problem with the minimum pen widths, you can
set the maximum thickness that the pen draws, e.g. to prevent
the drawn objects from overlapping when printed. Setting the
maximum pen widths on the other hand is less seldom neces-
sary.
Should one of your settings not cover the plotter circumstances
and no longer guarantee the printout of a drawing object, RW-
480 PLOTCLIENT WIN automatically adjusts the pen widths
here too.
• Steps/cm
Some time ago, most plotters had stepper motors, which ran at
a varying number of steps per centimeter. In the meantime, the
standard is 400 steps per centimeter. The RW-480 PLOTCLIENT
WIN therefore enters 400 as a default value, which does not
normally have to be altered. Nevertheless, it is sometimes ad-
visable to ask the customer what step number per centimeter
they are used to working with to guarantee plot consistency.
Furthermore, it can be necessary to make a change to reduce
the DPI, to release more system memory for large drawings:
Attention: If you enter a larger value, you will obtain
a s m a l l e r drawing: The entry 1 equates to 0.25 %.
Example: if you enter 401, the drawing is reduced to
99.75 %.
• HPGL Font path
Here you inform the program, in which folder the fonts are to
be used when printing HPGL files.
• Dither mode / RTL
Grey value patterns for HP-RTL files can be selected here. You
can choose between the gray value patterns "Symmetric pattern"
or "diffusion pattern". Test them and see which pattern best suits
your graphic. To do this, you have to reload the drawing in the
preview file after each change.
PEN SETTINGS
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