Ricoh RW-480 PLOTCLIENT HDI/ADI Software Manual page 60

PEN SETTINGS
• Pattern Style
You have a choice of four filling patterns to influence a pure
vector graphic diagram so that you can produce printouts which
are optimized for your plotter type.
"Round" means that a certain colored area is filled with a certain
number of filled circles, which are given a certain arrangement
on the area, to achieve the intended color saturation.
In "Random" on the other hand a percentage of color saturation
is determined for the same colored area, which is then con-
verted into the necessary number of pixel, which are randomly
arranged over the area to achieve the intended color saturation.
Which is why that when circle patterns are overlapped, the cov-
ered areas cannot be as clearly identified as if two random pat-
terns are overlapped. The recommended default setting is
therefore "Random", because you can achieve the best results.
As the "Round" setting has been installed as a standard to date,
this option has been retained of you do not see the need to print
the same drawings differently in future.
In addition, you can also select the gray value patterns "Sym-
metric pattern" and "Diffusion pattern". As the name suggests,
the "Symmetric pattern" produces a symmetrical gray value pat-
tern. If you select the "Diffusion pattern" as the gray value pat-
tern, a pattern is loaded. Try and see which pattern produces
the best printing results.
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