Material Thickness; Merge Pages; Print Direction; 1-Touch Laser Photo - Universal Laser Systems VLS2.30 User Manual

Material Thickness

You must enter the thickness of the material to be processed. This value is used by the materials database to
calculate the vector cutting job settings to ensure that the laser cuts all the way through the material. This
value is also used to by the laser system to move the Z axis to the proper focus height when using the auto Z
mode. Using a caliper or similar measuring device, measure the thickness of your material and enter it into
the Material Thickness box.

Merge Pages

This setting allows you to treat multipage documents in different ways. By default, multipage documents are
treated as separate jobs with each page having to be selected in the UCP and run individually. This setting
allows you to change that behavior. Selecting this setting once will merge the pages with auto-start, meaning
the pages will all be printed one after another as one job. This is useful if you want all the graphic images to
print on one piece of material, but you want to control the order in which they are applied. Selecting this
setting again will merge the pages with manual start, meaning the pages will all be printed one after another
as one job, but with the laser system pausing in between each page. This is useful if you need to load new
material in between each page.

Print Direction

This setting specifies whether raster objects are processed from the top down or bottom up. On some
materials it is advantages to process rasters from the bottom up to prevent smoke from marring the previously
marked or engraved surfaces.
Vector performance
This setting allows you to adjust vector performance from Standard to Throughput or Quality. This affects how
small geometry and curves in your graphic are processed. The Quality mode will increase job completion
time, but improve vector quality. Throughput mode will decrease job completion time, but may have an
adverse effect on vector quality.
Units
This section allows you to switch between Metric and English units.

1-Touch Laser Photo

This switch is automatically selected when printing photos from Universal Laser Systems 1-touch Photo laser
photo printing software. This switch also be selected when printing a photo processed by 1-Touch Photo and
then imported into other software before printing. This switch optimizes settings for best results with 1-Touch
Photo images.
Fixture Type
None
If you are not using any type of fixture, set the drop down menu to NONE.
Rotary
If you have purchased this accessory, read how to install and operate this fixture in the Accessories
section of the User Guide.
Pin Table
If you have purchased this accessory, read how to install and operate this fixture in the Accessories
section of the User Guide.
Custom (Cutting table)
This setting is used to set the height offset from the engraving table of any fixtures such as the cutting
table or any custom fixtures you might use to support the material to be processed. This value is used
along with the material thickness to move the Z axis to the proper focus height when using the auto Z
mode.
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