Ken,

Your descriptions are pretty accurate and very technical. Let me try to explain how they will help you and everyone else.

Problem #1 Speed, Problem #2 Fonts, Problem #3 thin line and Upper and lower case letters.

These were the reason behind the Image Enhancements.

Please note that these enhancements will only be available for XP Driver and depending on the version of the driver. The older versions were done manually The newer version is done automatically.

O.K. What do these do:

Contrast- This adjustment is for the HIGH DENSITY AREA of the text.

Example: The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog.

When you look at this line of text you have two distinct areas of the text. One being the Ascenders and descenders and the other being the High density area ( the letters that are closest together) (uick). This is the area that the contrast effects.

Definition- Is the adjustment for the descenders and ascenders.

Density- This should be left at 100 once you set the Contrast and definition. If the density is to high the letters will seam to be FATTER or bolder. By reducing the density you effect the sharpness of the character. If you reduce the density to much your letters will start to look pixelized. You should only have to adjust this in 5% increments to start to notice a difference. Once you get the right density setting then save your power/speed setting for the material (plastic, wood, etc.)
Then all of the image enhancements are saved with that setting.
We have found that we don't adjust this setting very often.

Believe it or not it does work with all kinds of different materials and the results are really nice.

The way to set it up right is to find the minimum power setting at the optimum speed to mark the material. Example engravers plastic set the power to get a solid white area at the fastest possible speed. Then go in and check the enhancement box and calculate. Then run a sample of times new roman upper and lower case from 12 point down to 8 point high text.

Get out your loom and check it out it is amazing how clean even the small text come in.

You should have a Image Enhancement setting for all your materials you work with, And yes it does effect photos as well.

This is a wonderful tool in this driver and everyone should take full advantage of it. It really works.

As for your other post regarding power and speed settings and there functions. I will work on that and reply as soon as I can.