Reverse Transfer ID Card Printer PRIMA DRIVER MANUAL Issue 2
Ultra Electronics Card Systems Magicard Prima Printer Driver Manual Welcome to the new high performance printer driver for the Prima printers. This manual will help you to install, set up and handle the driver to get the best results for your prints. The driver runs on 32 bit Windows platforms and has been successfully tested under Windows 2000 and Windows XP professional. The driver was designed for optimum performance and stability.
Ultra Electronics Card Systems Table of contents 1. LEGAL AND COPYRIGHT INFORMATION 3 SECTION 2 INSTALLATION SECTION 2.1 PRINTER INSTALLATION SECTION 2.2 PREPARATION OF THE P.C. SECTION 2.3 PRINTER DRIVER INSTALLATION SECTION 2.4 ADVANCED PRINTER CONFIGURATION 5 5 5 6 8 SECTION 3 PRINTING PREFERENCES SECTION 3.1 INTRODUCTION SECTION 3.1.1 LAYOUT AND SET-UP SECTION 3.1.2 FRONT AND REVERSE SIDE PRINTING SECTION 3.1.3 ENABLING THE MAGNETIC ENCODING SECTION 3.1.
Ultra Electronics Card Systems TECHNICAL SUPPORT For technical assistance, please contact your printer supplier or Magicard Technical Support. 1. Legal and Copyright Information This product is provided on an “as is” basis, without any other warranties, or conditions, express or implied, including but not limited to warranties of merchantable quality, merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose, or those arising by law, statute, usage of trade or course of dealing.
Ultra Electronics Card Systems 2. Installation 2.1 PRINTER INSTALLATION Please note: If your printer has an USB interface please follow the corresponding instructions which will be included in the USB Kit. 2.2 PREPARATION OF THE P.C. 1. Follow the installation instructions of the Prima Printer instruction manual 2. Turn off the PC and the printers. Remove the power cable from all hardware and the connection cables between PC and printer 3.
Ultra Electronics Card Systems 2.3 PRINTER DRIVER INSTALLATION UNDER WIN 2000 AND XP. 1. Log onto Windows as an administrator. 2. Open the Windows SCSI Adapters control panel, and install the SCSI adapter driver by following the instructions on your screen. 3. Make sure your printer is properly connected and powered on, then reboot your computer. 4. Open the Windows SCSI Adapters control panel again, and expand the device list. Make sure your SCSI printer appears. 5. Run ASPICHECK program.
Ultra Electronics Card Systems 10. Gives you the location of where the drivers files will be loaded, select “Install”. 11. Printer files will be copied, once completed you must restart the computer.
Ultra Electronics Card Systems 2.4 ADVANCED PRINTER CONFIGURATION If the printer is used in a network environment and should be shared with other users then click on "Shared as:" and give the printer a name. So other users then can select this printer within the network environment. The printer has to be assigned to the DIGID port.
Ultra Electronics Card Systems Do not change the following default settings unless you are an advanced user: You can view the version of the installed printer driver.
Ultra Electronics Card Systems 3. Printing Preferences 3.1 INTRODUCTION In graphic user interfaces all options are shown dynamically as there are card feeding, loading card in magazine, card leaving the printer etc. 3.1.1 LAYOUT AND SET-UP. 3.1.
Ultra Electronics Card Systems 3.1.3 ENABLING THE USE OF MAGNETIC STRIPE CARDS 3.1.
Ultra Electronics Card Systems 3.2 K AND PEEL OFF PANEL 3.2.1 INTRODUCTION In this tab you can define the kind of extraction methods for placing different objects to the K plane. You can define inclusion areas for peel-off (for front and reverse separately), this can be done as a single or in combination setting. 3.2.2 DEFAULT SETTINGS 3.2.3 SELECTION OF TEXT OBJECTS TO PRINT ON K-PLANE By enabling of “Text” you can specify if the whole text or black text only shall be printed on the K plane.
Ultra Electronics Card Systems 3.2.4 SELECTION OF BLACK & WHITE IMAGES TO PRINT ON K-PLANE By enabling of “Black and White Images” you can specify if black or black & grey images shall be printed on the K plane. 3.2.5 DEFINITION OF SPECIAL COLOURS TO BE PRINTED ON THE KPLANE If you use special colors which match existing ones of your layout they will be printed on K-plane. After clicking on the color button pick up or define a new color as you need.
Ultra Electronics Card Systems 3.2.6 DEFINITION OF AREAS FOR PRINTING ON THE K-PLANE In combination with the special colours (see chapter 3.2.5) you can define inclusion areas.
Ultra Electronics Card Systems After clicking on the area button the following window appears: Create new area: Simply click and draw rectangle area while pressing CTRL button, for editing click on the field you want to resize or/and move.
Ultra Electronics Card Systems Delete of area Choose the corresponding area from the list, right-click on mouse button and click on delete.
Ultra Electronics Card Systems MEASUREMENT CHANGES The following sample shows change of units e.g. from Pixel to Inches 3.2.7 PEEL OFF PANEL AREA DEFINITION This function is designed to define areas which shall be prevented from printing (e.g. signature fields).
Ultra Electronics Card Systems PEEL OFF AREA ENABLED NOTE: USE OF FULL PEEL OFF AREA RESULTS IN A NON-VISIBLE PRINTOUT. YOU MUST DEFINE A SMALLER AREA.
Ultra Electronics Card Systems DEFINITION OF AREAS FOR USE OF PEEL OFF Create new area: Simply click and draw rectangle area while pressing CTRL button; for later editing click on the field you want to resize and/or move. Delete of area: Choose the corresponding area from the list, right-click on mouse button and click on delete.
Ultra Electronics Card Systems PREVIEW OF DEFINED SAMPLE PO PANEL AREAS.
Ultra Electronics Card Systems 3.3 ADVANCED MENU 3.3.1 OFFSETS AND SYNCHRONISATION Default Settings Global Print Offset: Here you can set-up the offset of the layout in horizontal and vertical direction by changing the values; this influences the complete layout. K Plane Offset: The changing of the values for K plane only influences the offset of the K plane. Synchronization: If enabled, the printer waits until the card exits the printer.
Ultra Electronics Card Systems 3.3.2 SAMPLE OF MAGSTRIPE ENCODING Sending Track Information Magnetic track data are sent in the form of text strings from the application software to the printer driver, along with all of the other printable objects within your card design. For the printer driver to differentiate between magnetic track data and the rest of the printable objects, the magnetic track data strings must be uniquely “tagged” and be formatted using the “System” font.
Ultra Electronics Card Systems SECTION 4 DRIVER DESCRIPTION (DISPATCHER). The “dispatcher” program or “Intelligent Printer Management” tool was developed with focus on giving the most possible power and flexibility to the user. All the necessary controls and settings are stored centrally in the tool “Dispatcher” (DISP.EXE). Using the Dispatcher the user has direct access to all the setting parameters they need.
Ultra Electronics Card Systems SECTION 4.2 DISPATCHER SCREEN When a print job is started the “Dispatcher” screen shows the status of every printer, current print job and any pending print jobs. If you “right click” on any of the print jobs pending you have full control over their priority. Status of printers currently attached to the computer. Printer operations are shown during the print cycle. Pause/Resume starts and stops each print job.
Ultra Electronics Card Systems SECTION 4.3 PRINTER SETTINGS The “Printer Settings” tab enables the user to set the printing parameters e.g. Speed, Temperature and Bend Remedy. The settings are shown in a user friendly manner via the P.C for every printer connected to the SCSI bus. So for example if two printers (XID 450’s) were connected to the SCSI bus two tabs would show at the top of the page: Printer SCSI ID : 2 Printer SCSI ID : 3 etc. Individual printers attached to the SCSI Bus.
Ultra Electronics Card Systems SECTION 4.4 OPTIONS TAB The “Options Tab” controls the functions of the Dispatcher Program and also the configuration of the printer groups. General Settings Printer Group Control and Setup Menu • Start DISP with printers in paused mode. Next time the dispatcher program is started (either by closing or rebooting the PC) the printer stays in paused mode. • Dispatch copy print to all available printers If enabled all copy print jobs will be sent to all available printers.
Ultra Electronics Card Systems SECTION 4.4 OPTIONS TAB CONTINUED Printer Group Definitions. The printer group definition is a unique technique to define several groups of “virtual” printers. If created, every Windows application can print to one virtual driver shown in the Windows printer folder without sending jobs individually. NOTE SINGLE PRINTERS CAN BE DEFINED AS A VIRTUAL PRINTER FOR ROUTING JOBS TO A SPECIFIC PRINTER.
Ultra Electronics Card Systems SECTION 4.5 CREATION OF PRINTER GROUPS This section outlines how to create printer groups on your Windows system. 2 1 3 4 To create a new printer group: 1. Select new group. 2. Choose the SCSI ID’s of the printer you want in the group 3. Choose “add group”. 4. The virtual printer group appears within the dialogue box.
Ultra Electronics Card Systems SECTION 4.6 DELETION OF PRINTER GROUPS There are two different ways of deleting groups: • Highlight the virtual printer group within Windows. • Right click and then select “Delete”. • Referring to the printer group in the dialogue box, highlight the printer group you want to delete. • Press the button “Delete Group”. 1 2 NOTE 29 USING THE DISPATCHER PROGROM ENSURES THE PRINTER GROUP IS DELETED FROM WINDOWS; THIS IS THE RECOMMENDED WAY OF DELETING.
Ultra Electronics Card Systems SECTION 4.7 LUT AND PASSWORD. SECTION 4.7.1 LUT. Inside the “LookUp Table Configuration" the user has the options of creating his own colour curves. LookUp tables contain values to control the print density for every colour. It can be useful if you are printing on cards that are both different materials and non-white in background. NOTE USING OTHER LUT’S THAN THE PRINTER’S INTERNAL ONES REQUIRES DEEP KNOWLEDGE IN COLOUR MANAGEMENT AND IS RECOMMENDED IN SPECIAL CASES.
