Other Handy Features; A Wide Variety Of Operations You Can Accomplish With Metazastudio - Roland Metaza MPX-80 User Manual

4-6 Other Handy Features

A Wide Variety of Operations You Can Accomplish with METAZAStudio

METAZAStudio offers a wide variety of features for editing imported images and creating printing data. For more
information on how to operate METAZAStudio, refer to the online help for the program.
P. 9, "About the Documentation for This Machine"
➢Make images of people more prominent
When the machine prints data created using METAZAStudio, light and dark are expressed by making colors close
to white darker and colors close to black lighter. This means that dark hair or clothing may be printed light,
making the outline of the person indistinct. (Depending on the data, such hair or clothing may not be printed at
all.) In such cases, cropping the person and applying a border to the image enables you to make the image of the
person stand out better when printed.
METAZAStudio online help ("Operation Procedures" > "Step 3: Delete Unnecessary Parts from Image" )
➢Register often-used shapes and images in advance
You can register often-used and generic-use shapes in the library, which enables you call them up and add them
to your data whenever you need them. Registering logos and other graphics can add convenience. You can also
register images.
METAZAStudio online help ("Hints and Tips" > "Making Use of Library")
➢Create contour lines from images
You can print imported images with added contour lines. The data formats that you can import are JPEG and BMP
(bitmap). To enable clean extraction of the contours, the data should meet the following conditions.
Gradations : Use images that do not contain continuous gradations and that have clearly defined borders be-
tween colors.
Number of colors : Binary (black and white [recommended])
Resolution : High (Note, however, that the optimal resolution may vary according to the complexity of the shape
and the size when printed.)
METAZAStudio online help ("Hints and Tips" > "Creating Contour Lines from an Image")
➢Share files over the Internet
You can save images that contain material shapes as bitmap (BMP) files. You can then send the files over the
Internet for confirmation of the finished results.
METAZAStudio online help ("Hints and Tips" > "Creating Preview for Customers to Check Completion Image")
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