Getting Ready To Print; The Printing Area; Preparing Material To Print - Roland METAZA MPX-70 User Manual

3-3 Getting Ready to Print

The Printing Area

The machine's printing area is as follows.

Preparing Material to Print

Prepare material that meets all of the following conditions.
Loading material that is larger or thinner than this may cause the material to warp during printing and strike the head,
damaging the marking pin.
Conditions for Materials that Can Be Printed
Thickness 0.3 to 20 mm (0.01 to 0.8 in.)
Size Length (or width) of 90 mm (3-9/16 in.) or less
* Note that even if thickness and size are within the range as described above, it may not be possible
to perform printing correctly on materials that warp when struck. Refer to the table below, which
provides a general guide to printable sizes according to thicknesses.
Material
Aluminium
Brass or copper
Stainless steel
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Top view of the table
Center line
Center
line
Thickness Printable material size (general guide)
2.0 mm (0.08 in.) Length (or width) of 60 mm (2-3/8 in.) or less
1.5 mm (0.06 in.) Length (or width) of 40 mm (1-9/16 in.) or less
1.0 mm (0.04 in.) Length (or width) of 30 mm (1-3/16 in.) or less
0.5 mm (0.02 in.) Length (or width) of 20 mm (3/4 in.) or less
0.3 mm (0.01 in.) Length (or width) of 20 mm (3/4 in.) or less
2.0 mm (0.08 in.) Length (or width) of 60 mm (2-3/8 in.) or less
1.5 mm (0.06 in.) Length (or width) of 40 mm (1-9/16 in.) or less
1.0 mm (0.04 in.) Length (or width) of 30 mm (1-3/16 in.) or less
0.5 mm (0.02 in.) Length (or width) of 15 mm (9/16 in.) or less
0.3 mm (0.01 in.) Length (or width) of 15 mm (9/16 in.) or less
2.0 mm (0.08 in.) Length (or width) of 60 mm (2-3/8 in.) or less
1.0 mm (0.04 in.) Length (or width) of 40 mm (1-9/16 in.) or less
Expanded printing area
(80 x 80 mm (3-1/8 x 3-1/8 in.))
Printing area
(50 x 50 mm (1-15/16 x 1-15/16 in.))
50 mm 80 mm
50 mm
80 mm