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Issue 2 Reverse Transfer ID Card Printer PRIMA DRIVER MANUAL[...]
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Ultra Electronics Card Systems Magicard Prima Driver Manual 2 Magicard Prima Printe r Driver Man ual 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 platfo rms and has been successf[...]
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Ultra Electronics Card Systems Magicard Prima Driver Manual 3 Table of contents 1. LEGAL AND COPYRIG HT INFORMATION 3 SECTION 2 INSTALLATION 5 SECTION 2.1 PRINTER INSTALLATION 5 SECTION 2.2 PREPARATION OF THE P.C. 5 SECTION 2.3 PRINTER DRIVER INSTALLATION 6 SECTION 2.4 ADVANCED PRINTER CONFIGURATION 8 SECTION 3 PRINTING PREFERENCES 10 SECTION 3.1 I[...]
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Ultra Electronics Card Systems Magicard Prima Driver Manual 4 TECHNICAL SUPPORT For technical assistance, please contact your printer supplier or Magicard Technical Support. 1. Leg al and Copyright In formation This product is provided on an “as is” basis, without any other warranties, or conditions, express or implied, including but not limite[...]
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Ultra Electronics Card Systems Magicard Prima Driver Manual 5 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 US B Kit. 2.2 PREPARATION OF THE P.C. 1. Follow the installation instructions of the Prima Printer instruction manual 2. T[...]
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Ultra Electronics Card Systems Magicard Prima Driver Manual 6 2.3 PRINTER DRIVER INSTALLA TION 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[...]
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Ultra Electronics Card Systems Magicard Prima Driver Manual 7 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.[...]
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Ultra Electronics Card Systems Magicard Prima Driver Manual 8 2.4 ADVANCED PRINTER CONF IGURATION If the printer is used in a network environm ent 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 a[...]
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Ultra Electronics Card Systems Magicard Prima Driver Manual 9 Do not change the following default settings unless you are an advanced user: You can view the version of the installed printer driver.[...]
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Ultra Electronics Card Systems Magicard Prima Driver Manual 10 3. Printing Preferences 3.1 INTROD UCTION In graphic user interfaces all options are shown dynamic ally as there are card feeding, loading card in magazine, card leaving the pri nter etc. 3.1.1 LAYOUT AND SET-UP. 3.1.2 ENABLING FRONT AND REVERSE SIDE PRINTING[...]
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Ultra Electronics Card Systems Magicard Prima Driver Manual 11 3.1.3 ENABLING THE USE OF MAGNETIC STRIPE CARDS 3.1.4 ENABLING THE USE OFCHIP CONTACT CARDS[...]
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Ultra Electronics Card Systems Magicard Prima Driver Manual 12 3.2 K AND PEEL OF F PANEL 3.2.1 INTRODUCTION In this tab you can define the kind of extrac tion 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[...]
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Ultra Electronics Card Systems Magicard Prima Driver Manual 13 3.2.4 SELECTION OF BLACK & WH ITE IMAGES TO PRINT ON K-PLANE By enabling of “Black and White Images” you can specify if black or b lack & grey images shall be printed on the K plane. 3.2.5 DEFINITION OF SPECIAL COLOURS TO BE PRINTED ON THE K- PLANE If you use special colors [...]
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Ultra Electronics Card Systems Magicard Prima Driver Manual 14 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 inclu sion areas.[...]
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Ultra Electronics Card Systems Magicard Prima Driver Manual 15 After clicking on the area button the foll owing window appears: Create n ew area: Simply click and draw rectangle area while pressing CTRL button, for editing click on the field you want to resiz e or/and move.[...]
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Ultra Electronics Card Systems Magicard Prima Driver Manual 16 Delete of area Choose the corresponding area from the list, right-click on mouse button and click on delete. PREVIEW OF DEFINED SAMPLE K-PANEL AREAS[...]
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Ultra Electronics Card Systems Magicard Prima Driver Manual 17 MEASUREMENT CHANGES The following sample shows change of units e.g. from Pixel to Inches 3.2.7 PEEL OFF PANEL ARE A DEFINITION This function is designed to define areas which shall be prevented from printing (e.g. signature fields). Default Se ttings[...]
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Ultra Electronics Card Systems Magicard Prima Driver Manual 18 PEEL OFF AREA ENABLED NOTE: USE OF FULL PEEL OFF AR EA RESULTS IN A NON-VISIBLE PRINTOUT. YOU MUST DEFINE A SMALLER AREA . After click on the PO area button the follo wing windo w appears:[...]
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Ultra Electronics Card Systems Magicard Prima Driver Manual 19 DEFINITION OF AREAS FOR USE OF PEEL OFF Create n ew 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 cl[...]
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Ultra Electronics Card Systems Magicard Prima Driver Manual 20 PREVIEW OF DEFINED SAMPLE PO PANEL AREAS.[...]
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Ultra Electronics Card Systems Magicard Prima Driver Manual 21 3.3 ADVANC ED MENU 3.3.1 OFFSETS AND SYNCHRONISATION Default Se ttings Global Print Offse t: 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 pl[...]
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Ultra Electronics Card Systems Magicard Prima Driver Manual 22 3.3.2 SAMPLE OF MAGSTRIPE ENCODING Sending Tr ack I n for mation 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 b[...]
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Ultra Electronics Card Systems Magicard Prima Driver Manual 23 SECTION 4 DRIVER DESCRIPTION (DI SPATCHER). The “dispatcher” program or “Intelligent Printer Management” tool was developed with focus on giving the most possi ble power and flexibilit y to the user. All the necessary controls and settings are stored centrally in the tool “Dis[...]
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Ultra Electronics Card Systems Magicard Prima Driver Manual 24 SECTION 4.2 DISPATCHER SCREEN When a print job is started the “Dispatcher” screen shows the s tatus 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. A new function in [...]
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Ultra Electronics Card Systems Magicard Prima Driver Manual 25 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 ([...]
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Ultra Electronics Card Systems Magicard Prima Driver Manual 26 SECTION 4.4 OPTIONS TAB The “Options Tab” controls the functions of the Dispatcher Program and also the configuration of the printer groups. • Start DISP with printers in paus ed mode. Next time the dispatcher program is started (either by closing or rebooting the PC) the printer [...]
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Ultra Electronics Card Systems Magicard Prima Driver Manual 27 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 Printer ID = 2 Printer ID = 3 JOB 1 JOB 4 JOB 3 JOB 2 SECTION 4.4 OPTIONS TAB CONTINUED Printer Group Def initions. The printer group definiti[...]
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Ultra Electronics Card Systems Magicard Prima Driver Manual 28 SECTION 4.5 CREATION OF PRINTER GROUPS This section outlines how to create printer groups on your Windows system. 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 ap[...]
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Ultra Electronics Card Systems Magicard Prima Driver Manual 29 2 1 SECTION 4.6 DELETION OF PRINTER GROUPS There are two different ways of deleting groups: • Highli ght the virtual printer group within Windows. • Right click and then sel ect “Delete”. • Referri ng to the printer group in the dialogue box, highlight the printer group you wa[...]
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Ultra Electronics Card Systems Magicard Prima Driver Manual 30 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 c an be useful if you are printing on cards that are[...]