Each RTC® board includes a CD with the following (and more):

• Drivers for the current versions of Windows − with plug-and-play support for using one or several RTC® PC interface boards simultaneously. RTC® SCANalone boards can be simply attached to a PC's USB port.
• A DLL and import declarations for binding of RTC® commands to user programs.
• An HPGL converter utility for straight-forward testing of RTC® operation and scan system control. Images in HPGL format can be loaded and output to the RTC® board.

• Individually calculated correction files enable precise positioning of the laser focus and constant scan speeds (see below).

The DLL provides a comprehensive palette of commands for creating user-specific applications (C, C++, C#, Basic, Delphi ...):

• Commands for synchronous control of the laser, scan and peripheral equipment
• Laser signals for controlling all widely used laser types
• Commands for outputting vectors, arcs and bitmaps
• Commands for querying scan-system status info

• Additional commands support options such as automatic self-calibration, processing of moving objects (processing-on-the-fly), control of 3-axis scan systems, and simultaneous control of two scan systems

Image field distortions induced by the scan-system optics are compensated via correction files individually calculated to reflect the scan system's mirror geometry, calibration and focusing optics.

RTC® correction files can be customized via the CFMP and correXion® programs. SCANLAB offers a bitmap converter program for pixel-based images.

Several software vendors offer application packages for the RTC®.

For RTC®5 boards (PCI, PCI-Express), the laserDESK® software is available from SCANLAB. laserDESK® lets you easily create and execute professional laser jobs.