Prima MAGICARD 2e User Manual

Prima 2e Re-transfer Printer Printer Driver Manual

A reboot may be necessary, as shown below. Please wait until the driver installation is completed, then click "Finish". The selected pri

By calling the printer properties, from the "General" tab, you can print a test page as follows: After your test page has been printed su

The Wizard will ask you to connect to Windows Update: Choose "No, not this time" and click "Next". Choose "Install the so

The wizard will ask you for the location of the driver files. In the "Files Needed" window, click on the dropdown list box and choose the

2.2. Advanced Printer Configuration If the printer is used in a network environment and will be shared with other users, then click "Shared as:

The Color Management settings should only be used by experienced users. Prima 2e Driver ManualPage 15 of 77

Note: The screenshot may differ depending on system configuration: On the "About" tab you will find the version of the installed printer

3. Printing Preferences 3.1. Introduction into driver and print technology In graphic user interfaces all options are shown dynamically as there are

3.2. Layout / Setup 3.2.1. Page Orientation This option will be used to setup the page orientation between Portrait and Landscape. 3.2.2. Set-u

3.2.3. Set-up for use of cards with magnetic stripe or smartchip (Card Type) If the "Magstripe" or "Smartchip" checkbox is enable

Welcome to the high performance printer driver for the XID5xxi series printer. This manual will help you to install, set-up and configure the drive

Flip Axis: Here you can setup the orientation of the 'card body', which is the same as the function as former 'Image Orientation'

3.3.3. Selection of text objects to be printed on K-plane By enabling "Text", you are able to specify if all text or only black text should

3.3.4. Selection of black & white images to print on K-plane By enabling "Black and White Images" you can specify if black or black &am

It is recommended to choose either black or an extreme color, which will not be used in the rest of the layout. Pure colors (like Magenta) will neve

3.3.5.2. Definition of areas for printing on K-plane In combination with the special colors (see chapter 3.3.5), you can define inclusion areas:

To create a new area: Click and draw a rectangle area while pressing and holding down the CTRL-key on the keyboard. To edit an area: Select an area

Preview of defined sample K-Panel areas Measurement changes The following sample shows a change of units e.g. from Pixel to Inch Prima 2e Dr

Tip: Keeping values after disabling gives you the flexibility to design the areas before you enable this setting. Prima 2e Driver ManualPage 27 of

3.3.6. PO Panel Area Definition (Peel Off) This function is designed to define areas which will be prevented from printing (e.g. signature fields). T

The peel off area is enabled by clicking the checkbox: Warning: Use of full PO area results in non-visible printout. In each case you need to defin

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3.3.6.1. Definition of areas Peel Off To create a new area: Click and draw a rectangle area while pressing and holding down the CTRL-key on the keyb

Preview of defined sample K-Panel areas Tip: Keeping values after disabling gives you the flexibility to design the areas before you enable this se

3.4. Advanced 3.4.1. Global Print Offset and K Plane Offset Global Print Offset: Here you can shift the offset of the layout in horizontal and vertic

3.4.3. Track Formats The track formats are shown for informational purpose. Only standard formats are allowed to be encoded. 3.4.4. Card Output

3.4.5. Material Usage The "Material Usage" area shows the expected usage of color and retransfer ribbon using the currently selected option

3.4.6. Sample of magnetic stripe Encoding Sending Track Information Magnetic track data is sent in the form of text strings from the application sof

4. Advanced Intelligent Printer Management (AIPM) 4.1. Introduction The "Advanced Intelligent Printer Management" was developed with a foc

4.2.1. Printers The printer line shows the printer’s status: If the printer is connected and detected by the Dispatcher and has no low level errors (

During the run time of DISP the card counter shows the Cards for print and Cards printed. Cards for print shows all jobs in the file list includi

Inside the Print Jobs list, the user can handle single jobs by right clicking with the mouse button as follows: - Delete (e.g. if unwanted after erro

6.7. Precoding ...

5. Administration Center The "Administration Center" is the central point for administrative management of hardware related settings, print

5.1.1. Re-transfer settings Ribbon Type Counts per roll (1000, 750) Temperature -3 (Low) ..Standard + 2 (High) Speed (Front/Back) -10 (Slow) ..

5.1.5. Print setting transfers Load from File An already set file can be loaded Save to File Actual settings can be saved to file From Printer S

5.2. Options With the "Options" it is possible to enable / disable following items: 5.2.1. General Options Start DISP with printers i

Windows Applications Send 4 print jobs Virtual Printer (e.g. My printer group A) 3 Physical Printers assigned to the group. DISP Printer. ID = 1 Prin

5.2.2.1. Creation of Printer Groups After clicking on "Add" in Printer Driver Profiles and Printer Grouping, the user needs to enter a new

The following two samples show how to enter the information: Sample A: As a result of this definition the printer appears in the list. 1.3.2.4

Sample B: When checking the maximum number of available printers you will get the maximum performance: It is possible to add several groups incl

5.2.2.2. Deleting of Printer Groups There are two different ways of deleting Printer Groups: by Dispatcher or by use of the standard procedure in th

By clicking on the "Printing Preferences ..." button the user can view and setup the printer settings out of the Dispatcher for the highligh

1. Legal and Copyright Information This product is provided on an "as is" basis, without any other warranties, or conditions, expressed or

5.2.3.3. Importing of Printer Driver Profiles If the customer needs to import the printer profiles he can do this by clicking on the 'Import ..

5.3. LUT / Password 5.3.1. Lookup Table Configuration Inside the Lookup Table Configuration the user has the possibility of using his own LUT tables

5.4. Driver Config This page allows setting, changing and removing the password of the Administration Center. When you click on "Reset" bu

6. Advanced Chip Encoding Framework (ACEF) Included in the printer driver is the Advanced Chip Encoding Framework, which is capable of handling all

6.1. Plugin architecture As the printer driver does not do the encoding itself but loads an additional piece of software that know how to "talk&

6.2. Software and Hardware Setup 6.2.1. Plugin Info When a plugin is installed properly and appears in the list of Installed Plugins, clicking on it

This prevents plugins from crashing the driver by attempting to use unsupported functions of a later driver release. Plugin version The plugin's

This mechanism allows easy recognition of the port name of each single encoder device in a multiple printer (and encoder) environment by plugging th

6.2.3. Format Templates Some applications require different encodings, depending on the layout of the card, but use one chip type. Plugins can be de

Each layout must then contain a "reference" to each format template, along with the encoding data, and the plugin would be able to understan

2. Installation 2.1. Printer Driver Installation Note 1: It is recommended to install the driver before you connect the printer to the PC! Note 2: S

6.2.4. Configuration (Global Settings and Test) The most important part in the chip encoding setup is to test the communication with the encoding dev

6.3. Application Setup The chip encoding features of the driver are application independent, i.e. the application does not need to be set-up for the

The font, however, is not relevant for parsing, as long as if it is a standard Windows font. So to summarize all of the above: Important - The en

6.5. Printing and encoding over network Multiple workstations on the network can print on a PC that has one or more printers attached locally and has

6.7. Precoding Introduction A special preprocessing might be required by the application before encoding or printing the card, or both. In some case

6.8. Encoding String In an encoding environment, there are many parameters that must be configured in order to the encoding to be performed correctly

corresponding section of the application's handbook on how to set up a text field with a string that can hold both, fixed and variable data. The

The following keywords in an encoding string are reserved by the driver and processed in a special way. Keyword Option Format Description pi mandat

6.8.1. Encoding string examples 1. Simple encoding string {pi="Contact" ft="Guest" ...encoding data... } Uses the plugin &q

4. Visual appearance of encoding strings This example shows how an encoding string does appear in the application window and does not appear on the p

Note: Please note that you have to choose the exact name of the delivered member of our XID Printer Family. The wrong choice will result in a non-wo

7. Troubleshooting and known limitations Print Errors As a result of the enhanced error recovery capability of the AIPM driver, the user can decid

8. Appendix A Layout placement on card The printer driver uses a technology that allows you to quickly setup and adjust the document properties for

Step 1: One- or two-sided layout Check if the design is a one or two-sided layout, i.e. if the layout has only a front side or a front and back side.

Step 2: Landscape or portrait Check if the design is a landscape or a portrait design. Landscape Select = or Portrait Select = Prima 2e Drive

Step 3: Visible encoding features, Magnetic Stripe or Contact Chip If the card is not blank, it is important to select the features so the driver kno

Step 4: Flip axis The driver determines the rotation of the layout sides from the flip axis of the card, which is the axis around which the card can

Step 5: Rotation of the card For non-blank cards, the layout design must cope with either the contact chip or the magnetic stripe or both on each sid

Step 6: Exchange the card sides As seen in the last step, for non-blank cards, the position of the magnetic stripe or contact chip or both must be ad

Note: It is recommended to use the proposed default path. Please verify the path shown and click "Next". Click "Install" to

Click "Continue Anyway" to continue the installation. Now the files will be installed. Click on "Finish" to complete the i