Owner`s manual

MaxMotion for Machines Appendix A-209
Appendix A
Using Scanned Images
An important and a profitable part of a engraving/routing business is to
scan logos and other artwork for the customers, scale the artwork and
ultimately create high quality work with engraving/routing. MaxMotion
can certainly help you achieve the above goal with the greatest of ease.
Actually, the whole process is very simple and proven. The availability
of scanners and related software is mind boggling. A user can easily
pick a combination of system components to work with his PC/
Windows computer and to fit within his budget and he can be produc-
tive almost immediately. Following are choices to think about:
(1) Scanners are available as small, low cost hand-held scanners, black
& white flat bed scanners with typical maximum scanning size of 8.5 X
14 inches, color flat bed scanners as well as reasonably priced slide
scanners. The typical resolution of hand-held and flat bed scanners are
300 DPI (dots per inch) to 600 DPI, and with low end slide scanners
reaching up to 1800 DPI.
Scanners are sold with a utility software that allows capturing of
scanned images and storing as some of the standard PC/Windows file
structures. Most of the scanners are also available with a proper
physical interface with the PC/Windows computer such as parallel,
serial, SCSI, or USB interfaces. All of these make it easy to interface
the scanner to the PC/Windows. Do not forget that you may need
additional RAM memory in your computer to hold large scanned
images.
(2) Now, that the scanner is connected to the system, the user is ready
to take a drawing of a logo and machine the logo, for example. Scan-
ners scan the artwork and digitize the image. The original artwork
might be on paper. The scanned image is a number of dots or pixels.