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Rubber Stamp Setup Button
When you press the Rubber Stamp Setup Button the rubber stamp shoulder controls window
will appear with the following settings:
Taper Selection
You can use Taper Selection to choose from a selection of predefined shoulder angles for
specific rubber stamp applications. In most cases, these predefined shoulders will be
adequate. However, you can create custom shoulders by pressing the New button.
Image Options - Invert Page
This converts all black objects into white and all-white objects into black for the entire page.
CAUTION: When using the “Invert Page” feature you may need to reduce your page size to
match your material size so that the entire work area is not engraved.
Image Options - Mirror Page
This mirrors the entire page from left to right (horizontally) at the time of printing.
Power
The Power table graphically represents the shoulder characteristics of the predefined
rubber stamp shoulders and allows you to adjust the shape of any custom shoulders you
create. You will notice that you cannot adjust the settings when a predefined shoulder is
selected. You must press the new button to create a clone of the selected shoulder and then
you will be able to edit the settings for the cloned shoulder. You can also rename the cloned
shoulder once it is created by pressing the Rename button and delete the clone by pressing
the delete button. The predefined shoulders cannot be deleted.
Once you have created a custom shoulder, you can adjust the shape of the shoulder using
the power table controls. A shoulder is made up of a series of steps. Each slider bar controls
the laser’s power level for that step from 0 to 100%. The first and last steps in the shoulder
are fixed at 0 and 100% respectively. You can vary all the values in between to create a
desired shoulder shape. The numbers beneath the power levels represent the width of each
step in 0.001” (.0254 mm) increments; you can make each step up to .004” (.116 mm) wide.
You do not have to employ all the steps to make a shoulder; you can use the checkboxes to
deactivate steps to shorten the table. When you deactivate a step, the power level for that
step is automatically set to 100%.
Note: The maximum possible shoulder width is 0.064” (1.62 mm).
Clip Art Mode
This is a special mode that allows you to easily print many images from off-the-shelf clip art libraries.
Many of these images are made by combining many overlapping shapes and only print correctly if
converted to grayscale bitmaps. Be aware that this mode converts the entire graphic being printed
into a grayscale image, including vectors, and the black color job settings are used for processing.
Because of this, you will notice that the color table is reduced to one color (black) when this mode is
selected. The dither pattern applied is the pattern currently selected in the dithering section of the
raster sub-tab.
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