Composition Registration and Striking-force Adjustment

Registering a Composition and Adjusting the Striking Force

Here you register a composition in METAZA Driver and adjust the striking force to match the hardness and other parameters.

With this machine, imprinting using a striking force appropriate to the composition of the material used allows even higher quality imprint results to be obtained. METAZA Driver has premade settings for a number of compositions and their appropriate striking forces, but you can also register the optimal striking forces for these compositions yourself. In order to obtain better imprint results, you can also carry out later adjustment of the striking force of compositions whose striking force you've registered yourself.

Procedure
  1. Display the list of devices and printers.

    • Windows 11

      1. Click Start - All Apps - Windows Tool.
      2. Click Control Panel.
      3. Click View devices and printers.

    • Windows 10

      1. Click Start - Windows System - Control Panel.
      2. Click View devices and printers.
  2. Right-click Roland MPX-90.
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  3. Click Printing Preferences.
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    The setting window for METAZA Driver appears.
  4. Click the Image Correction tab and set the following items.
    1. Select a custom material with Material.
      Select one of the settings from settings a through d for the custom material.
    2. Select the imprint mode.
      Text When you want to imprint text and other images with clear outlines
      Photo When you want to imprint photographs and other images with gradation
      High Resolution When you want to express small text and small patterns clearly
      Others When you want to make the resolution setting and other settings of an image
    3. Click Details.
      The Details window appears.
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  5. Configure the detailed striking force settings.
    1. Enter a name for the composition you are registering.
    2. Enter the speed and impact.
      The imprint results vary according to the hardness of the material. Adjust the striking force to match the material being used.
    3. Configure the advanced settings.

      The items under Advance can only be set when the imprint mode is Others.

    4. Click OK.
      The Details window closes.
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    Table 1. Speed/Impact
    Impact-MIN You can set the minimum value of imprint impact for an image.

    Lower the value when dark areas of the image are whitish or when overall striking is too forceful.
    Impact-MAX You can set the maximum value of imprint impact for an image.

    Raise the value when bright areas of the image are struck with too little force or when overall striking is too weak.

    Lower the value when bright areas of the image are struck with too much force.
    Vector Impact You can set the maximum value of imprint impact for a line.
    Table 2. Advance
    Output Resolution You can specify the number of dots per inch.
    Drafting You can skip image information in increments of one dot.
    Table 3. Compositions and Values of Impact (Reference Values)
    Composition Impact-MIN Impact-MAX
    Brass or copper 200 350 to 450
    Iron or Stainless steel 200 400 to 500
    Titanium 200 500 to 600

    Paint on the surface of the material may be peeled off if the striking force is too strong. Paint peeling off may lead to machine malfunctions. Adjust the values of impact to prevent paint from peeling off during imprinting.

  6. Click OK.
    The settings are saved, and the Printing Preferences window closes.
    To obtain imprint results of higher quality, perform test imprinting or perform overstriking on the same material and adjust the values of impact on the basis of the imprint results.