Ricoh RW-480 PLOTCLIENT HDI/ADI Software Manual page 67

PEN SETTINGS
In this way, you can ensure that a drawing that has exactly the
same size as a standard format is printed on this size paper
thereby avoiding an unnecessary waste of paper.
• Pen Limits (mm)
− Min
Enter the minimum pen widths using the keyboard. The
information entered here affects all Calcomp pens.
As there are plotters in which even at the finest resolution the
individual pixels are not reliably reproduced, a minimum pen
size is indispensable in these cases. Should one of your settings
not cover the plotter circumstances and no longer guarantee the
printout of a drawing object, RW-480 PLOTCLIENT WIN auto-
matically adjusts the pen widths.
− Max
Using the keyboard, enter the maximum pen widths. The entry
affects all Calcomp pens.
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.
• Step size/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 800 steps per centimeter. The RW-480 PLOTCLIENT
WIN therefore enters 800 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
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