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Ultra Electronics Card Systems Quick Start Guide
MAGICARD Sprinter Flip
(inc. Mag Encoding option)
Quick Start Guide
Printer/Software Setup
Iss. 02 Dec 97
3503-22-01
Stock No. M9004-071
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Quick Start Guide Ultra Electronics Card Systems Setting up your MAGICARD Sprinter Flip takes just three easy steps: 1. Unpack and install the printer A Preparing a Location for the Printer B Removing the Printer from the Box C Checking the Package Contents D Install the Dye Film E Load the Plastic Cards F Connect the Printer to a Power Supply G Test the Printer Operation H Install the Parallel Interface Cable 2. Load the supplied WINDOWS Driver software. Ix Install the WINDOWS Driver (WINDOWS
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Ultra Electronics Card Systems Quick Start Guide Preparing a Location A for the Printer • A clean, level surface. • Adequate space for: - opening the Card Collection Door - opening the Top Cover - cable access at the rear. - allowance for air circulation. • An adequately ventilated room. Location Requirements for your printer: MAGICARD Sprinter Flip Page 3
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Quick Start Guide Ultra Electronics Card Systems • An adequate power supply. • Ambient temperature +10 to +30 deg C. • Relative Humidity 20/70% RH. • Protection from direct sunlight and Card Collection Door Top Cover chemicals. • Protection from abrupt temperature changes. Page 4 MAGICARD Sprinter Flip
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Ultra Electronics Card Systems Quick Start Guide Removing the Printer B B from the Box 2 1 Place on a smooth, level table and remove the polyethylene container. Carefully open the box and remove any accessories. 3 Open the front door and remove the metal shipping clip from the chassis. MAGICARD Sprinter Flip Page 5
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Quick Start Guide Ultra Electronics Card Systems Checking the Package Contents C C Locate each item as listed below: 2 1 The MAGICARD Sprinter Flip 3 A Roll of Dye Film and a Take-up Core (Only supplied as standard with certain Models) The Card Cassette Page 6 MAGICARD Sprinter Flip
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Ultra Electronics Card Systems Quick Start Guide A Power Cord with Molded Plug for your Country 4 MAGICARD Sprinter Flip Page 7
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Quick Start Guide Ultra Electronics Card Systems 5 6 Envelope containing 5 Cleaning Cards and 1 Thermal Printhead Cleaning Pen. Envelope containing this Quick Start Guide and the PrintMAGIC WINDOWS Driver 3.5" floppy disk. Page 8 MAGICARD Sprinter Flip
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Ultra Electronics Card Systems Quick Start Guide Install the Dye Film D 1 2 Replace the Film Carrier 3 Open the Printer Cover by lifting the "Dzus" fastener ring and turning a quarter turn anti-clockwise. Remove the Dye Film carrier. Open the Dye Film package. Fit the dye film on the lower boss, observing the MAGICARD Sprinter Flip Page 9
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Quick Start Guide Ultra Electronics Card Systems correct orientation of the dye film. Fit the empty take-up core on the upper boss, observing the correct orientation of the notches on the Take-up Core. Page 10 MAGICARD Sprinter Flip
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Ultra Electronics Card Systems Quick Start Guide 5 4 Turn the 'Dzus' Fastener 1/4 turn clockwise to lock in place. Lay the ring Manually turn the Spur Gear until the flat against the panel slots on the core engage with the lugs. 6 Pull about 6" of dye film off the roll of dye film, observing that it should be coming off the top of the roll, as per the label illustrations. MAGICARD Sprinter Flip Page 11
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Quick Start Guide Ultra Electronics Card Systems 8 7 Fasten the end of the dye film onto the Avoid touching the tip of the thermal Take-up Core with a small piece of printhead with your hands. adhesive tape, and wind on a couple of Feed the leading edge of the dye film turns. Avoid creasing of the dye film and over the tip of the Thermal Printhead and position it centrally on the core. beneath the two guide bars, where fitted. (Refer to the diagram on the side). Page 12 MAGICARD Sprinter Flip
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Ultra Electronics Card Systems Quick Start Guide Load the E Plastic Cards 2 1 3a Remove the 'tacky' roller before each batch of 100 cards, by putting your fingers beneath it and "snapping" out the left hand end of the roller. Remove surface dust by using a strip of 'Scotch' adhesive tape, and "snap" back into place. Flex a stack of plastic cards, to make sure they are not 'stuck' together. Avoid touching the surfaces to be printed. MAGICARD Sprinter Flip Page 13
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Quick Start Guide Ultra Electronics Card Systems Drop the cards flat down into the plastic Cassette, side to be printed uppermost, mag stripe to the left and facing down (if used). 3b Page 14 MAGICARD Sprinter Flip
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Ultra Electronics Card Systems Quick Start Guide 5 5 4 Close the Printer Door. Close the Printer Cover and secure the front latch. 6 Ensure that it is fully seated. Install the Cassette into the printer from the rear. MAGICARD Sprinter Flip Page 15
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Quick Start Guide Ultra Electronics Card Systems Connect the Printer F to a Power Supply 2 1 Locate the ON/OFF Switch and check that it is in the OFF position. Plug in the Power Cord. Plug the other end into a power socket. 3 Switch ON. The indicators should all flash and the motors run briefly. Finally, the POWER ON and ON LINE indicators will remain ON.. Page 16 MAGICARD Sprinter Flip
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Ultra Electronics Card Systems Quick Start Guide Test the Printer Operation G Print an Internally-Generated Test Card to make sure your printer is working correctly: 1 2 It will take a few seconds before printing commences. When finished, a Test Card will be ejected from the aperture in the Front Panel. At the rear of the printer, locate the TEST 3 Push-button. This is located in the rear panel, just above the Centronics parallel interface connector. Press the push-button momentarily. The card s
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Quick Start Guide Ultra Electronics Card Systems Install the parallel H Interface Cable Your MAGICARD Sprinter Flip supports bi- directional ECP as well as uni-directional parallel interfaces: 2 1 Plug a good quality, screened Centronics Switch the printer OFF. Locate the Interface cable into this socket and Parallel Interface connector on the rear secure the wire latches. Plug the other panel. end into the Printer connector of your PC (LPT1 or LPT2) 3 Page 18 MAGICARD Sprinter Flip
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Ultra Electronics Card Systems Quick Start Guide Install the WINDOWS Driver Ix Procedure to be followed if your PC uses WINDOWS 3.1 or 3.11.: • Start WINDOWS and in the MAIN group, select and open the Control Panel window: • Select and open the PRINTERS icon: MAGICARD Sprinter Flip Page 19
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Quick Start Guide Ultra Electronics Card Systems • Select the ADD>> button, the List of Printers will appear. In the List of Printers, select Install Unlisted or Updated Printer: Select the Install..... button. • A dialog box appears, instructing you to Insert unlisted, updated or vendor-provided printer driver disk in: Drive A:\ Page 20 MAGICARD Sprinter Flip
