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For over 30-years, Roland has lead innovation in rotary engraving technology and continues to break new ground with the Roland DE-3 DGSHAPE desktop rotary engraver. Featuring laser-pointing technology, Ethernet connectivity, automatic depth regulation, and other intelligent enhancements, the Roland DGSHAPE DE-3 is one of the smartest, most intuitive rotary engravers on the market. The Roland DGSHAPE DE-3 was built to quickly and easily produce today’s most popular engraving jobs opening new doors to profits for engraving businesses, retail stores, sign shops, gift engravers, t-shirt shops, trophy shops, and jewelry retailers. Create beautiful custom signs, ADA signage, and nameplates. Turn ordinary gifts, awards, and promotional items into treasured mementos by personalizing them with names, events or dates, or produce design templates for heat pressing rhinestones onto t-shirts, handbags and other apparel items.
The Roland DGSHAPE DE-3 features advanced surface detection that simplifies setup by determining the Z-axis starting point. This takes the headache out of complicated set-ups and saves you an incredible amount of time and configuration hassles typically associated with engraving devices. The Roland DGSHAPE DE-3 also features a hand-held control panel with a large LCD screen to let you quickly select engraving options such as spindle speed, without using a computer. Even cleanup is trouble-free with a one-touch vacuum adapter.
The Roland DGSHAPE DE-3 is precision - engineered for performance with quality parts that minimize excess movement and vibration from the device. As a result, the Roland DGSHAPE DE-3 produces sharp, crisp text and graphics for reliable results time after time.
The Roland DGSHAPE DE-3 is powered by a 20,000 rpm DC brushless motor, the Roland DGSHAPE DE-3 utilizes advanced surface detection and other automatic features to make set-up and engraving a quick and simple process.
The Roland DGSHAPE DE-3 has a laser pointer that accurately defines the origin point and displays an engraving path preview on the media— set the engraving position at the touch-of-a-button for accurate engraving and personalization every time. Easily-applied nose cones can be added to the spindle unit to avoid scratches to delicate materials and deliver consistently precise results.
Start engraving instantly with the powerful and easy to use Roland Dr. Engrave Plus software. The Roland DGSHAPE DE-3 desktop rotary engraver is open source technology that works out-of-the-box with all popular engraving software, industry standard tools, and materials. Also included with the purchase of the Roland DGSHAPE DE-3 is Dr. Engrave Plus software that offers new user advantages. Now supports AI files and standard graphics/vector data. Leveling and drilling functions enable standard text engraving as well as surface leveling and hole drilling. New features include importing raster and vector images, new layers selection that allows for more efficient control of a multi-operation job, input text using Windows TrueType fonts and automatic layout tools for importing Excel and CSV database files into pre-defined text boxes for quick production engraving of nametags, product serial numbers, and door numbering projects. Includes single stroke font editor (SFEdit). The Roland DGSHAPE DE-3 is compatible with most other engraving programs on the market, including FlexiEngrave, EngraveLab, and TriPoint.
The Roland DGSHAPE DE-3 easily handles a wide variety of materials including foam, plastic, acrylic, aluminum, stainless steel, brass and wood. Unlike laser engravers and other automatic engraving machines, the Roland DGSHAPE DE-3 preserves the original colors and textures of materials to provide a beautifully finished look.