User`s manual
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  MK3 - User’s Manual  56 
 Practical suggestions 
The following tables give the correspondences between needle frequency/transversal 
speed/dots per mm and distance between dots. 
Needle freq.  Transversal speed  Dots/mm  Dist. between dots 
(Hz) (mm/sec) (N°)  (mm) 
50  1 50 0.02 
 5 10 0.1 
 10 5 0.2 
 20 2.5 0.4 
 30 1.66 0.6 
 40 1.25 0.8 
 50 1  1 
 60 0.83 1.2 
 70 0.73 1.4 
 80 0.65 1.4 
 90 0.55 1.8 
 100 0.50 2 
 150 0.33 3 
 200 0.25 4 
75  1 75 0.01 
  5 15 0.06 
 10 7.5 0.13 
 20 3.75 0.26 
 30 2.5 0.4 
 40 1.87 0.53 
 50 1.5 0.66 
 60 1.25 0.8 
 70 1.07 0.93 
 80 0.93 1.06 
 90 0.83 1.2 
 100 0.75 1.33 
 150 0.5 2 
 200 0.37 2.66 










