Macsa ID, manufacturer of the world’s leading laser marking systems, has announced the release of a new version of its Scanlinux laser driver software.

The Scanlinux laser driver software is used on all Macsa’s laser products including the iCON specialist small character laser coder which is available here in the UK for UNDER £10,000, making it the most cost effective and affordable laser coder in the world!

Scanlinux 5.0.0 adds significant extra functionality with several new features. These include:

Support for other characters sets
Because Scanlinux software uses Unicode fonts it enables the iCON laser to print Greek, Arabic, Hebrew, Japanese, Chinese and Cyrilic character sets.

Menus in local languages
Scanlinux menus are now available in Spanish, English, German, French and Italian. Other languages will be added according to user demand.

Increased support for non-European calendar types (Hijri) and digits (Arabic and Indic)
Offset dates may now be expressed in months as well as in days.

More powerful formatting capabilities
Vertical and right left writing of text is now possible, it is easier to position specific objects and each object may now be individually formatted.

Macsa Sales and Marketing Director, David Jenkins, says: ‘this new software release is the first of many as we build on the successful launch of the iCON specialist small character laser marking systems. Over 100 lasers have now been shipped world-wide and interest from our distributors and end-users is very strong.’