Featuring compact, programmable design, DOTStar 520 provides permanent, flexible marking on metal and plastic workpieces. Unit features 120 x 100 mm marking area that allows for text of one or more lines in free scalable size, along with angles, circular arcs, and date, time, and consecutive numeration. Operating with dynamic stepping motors and low noise drive belt, unit accommodates 7 x 5, 9 x 7 dot-peening, and vibropeening marking fonts as well as datamatrix coding to ECC200 specification.