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Ultra Electronics Card Systems Quick Start Guide
Printer/Software Setup
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MAGICARDTURBO Color Printer
DCR 25826 refers
Stock No. M9004-707
3505-22-01
Iss. 04 Apr 99
Quick Start Guide
TURBO, TURBO M AND TURBO MS
Quick Start Guide for the
MAGICARD TURBO Color Printer
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Quick Start Guide Ultra Ele ctronics Card Systems takes just three easy steps: 1. Unpack and install the printer A B C D E F G H I 2. Load the supplied WINDOWS Driver software. Jy K L 3. Verify computer-to-printer operation. M N P . Q : The Ultra WEB site at contains comprehensive technical support information including the latest downloadable software, WINDOWS Drivers, Technical Bulletins etc Throughout this guide, the following conventions are used to identify important information. -
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Ultra Electronics Card Systems Quick Start Guide for the Printer A • An adequate power supply. • A clean, level surface. • Ambient temperature +10 to +30 deg C. • Adequate space for: • Relative Humidity 20/70% RH. - opening the Top Cover • Protection from direct sunlight and - cable access at the rear. chemicals. - allowance for air circulation. • Protection from abrupt temperature • An adequately ventilated room. Page 3 MAGICARDTURBO Color Printer Location Requirements for your printer: Prepari
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Quick Start Guide Ultra Electronics Card Systems B from the Box changes. 2 1 Page 4 MAGICARD TURBO Color Printer accessories. Carefully open the box and remove any remove the polyethylene container. Place on a smooth, level table and Removing the Printer
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Ultra Electronics Card Systems Quick Start Guide CC Locate each item as listed below: 2 1 The Card Cassette 3 4 Take-up Core Page 5 MAGICARD TURBO Color Printer Country A Power Cord with Moulded Plug for your The MagiCard Color Printer Package Contents Checking the
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Quick Start Guide Ultra Electronics Card Systems 6 5 This Starter Kit is not supplied with your printer and must be ordered separately, Part No M9004-698. The Starter Kit contains: • • 200 PVC Cards • for Thermal Printhead • • 1 Centronics IEEE 1284 Parallel Cable, M2900-337 Reference Centronics Parallel It is recommended that an IEEE 1284 the PC. unscreened parallel printer cable. Page 6 MAGICARD TURBO Color Printer card being printed. poor quality or scrambled multi-coloured downloaded to t
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Ultra Electronics Card Systems Quick Start Guide Install the D 1 3 Open the Printer Top Cover by releasing 2 4 Fit the empty take-up core on the upper the notches on the Take-up Core. Page 7 MAGICARD TURBO Color Printer boss, observing the correct orientation of correct orientation of the dye film. film on the lower boss, observing the Open the Dye Film package. Fit the dye film carrier can be removed. quarter turn counter-clockwise, the dye By turning the “Dzus” fastener ring a Replace the Film
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Quick Start Guide Ultra Electronics Card Systems 6 5 Turn the 'Dzus' Fastener 1/4 turn 7 Page 8 MAGICARD TURBO Color Printer illustrations. off the top of the roll, as per the label film, observing that it should be coming Pull about 6" of dye film off the roll of dye flat against the panel clockwise to lock in place. Lay the ring slots on the core engage with the lugs. Manually turn the Spur Gear until the
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Ultra Electronics Card Systems Quick Start Guide 8 9 Page 9 MAGICARD TURBO Color Printer (Refer to the diagram on the side). beneath the two guide bars, where fitted. position it centrally on the core. over the tip of the Thermal Printhead and turns. Avoid creasing of the dye film and Feed the leading edge of the dye film adhesive tape, and wind on a couple of printhead with your hands. Take-up Core with a small piece of Avoid touching the tip of the thermal Fasten the end of the dye film onto t
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Quick Start Guide Ultra Electronics Card Systems E Plastic Cards 1 2 Flex a stack of plastic cards, to make 3 Refit the card hopper back into the Page 10 MAGICARD TURBO Color Printer printer. used). (if mag stripe to the left and facing down Cassette, side to be printed uppermost, Drop the cards flat down into the plastic touching the surfaces to be printed. sure they are not 'stuck' together. Avoid Load the
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Ultra Electronics Card Systems Quick Start Guide F 1 2 cleaning before each batch of 100 cards. To remove the ‘tacky’ roller, release the can then be removed. Remove surface tape, and ‘snap’ back into place. 3 4 Close the Printer Cover and secure the Page 11 MAGICARD TURBO Color Printer Install the Cassette into the Printer. front latch. dust by using a strip of ‘Scotch’ adhesive putting your fingers beneath it, the roller locking tab on the left-hand side and, by The 'tacky' roller should be re
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Quick Start Guide Ultra Electronics Card Systems Connect the Printer G to a Power Supply 3 1 the panel. 2 Page 12 MAGICARD TURBO Color Printer end into a Power Supply socket. Plug in the Power Cord. Plug the other READY LED will remain ON. and the motors run briefly. Finally, Locate the Mains Switch on the rear Switch ON. The indicators should all flash
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Ultra Electronics Card Systems Quick Start Guide Printer Operation H Print an Internally-Generated Test Card to make 2 1 At the rear of the printer, locate the TEST interface connector. Front Panel. 3 Cyan graduated scales. This card can the test card. Page 13 MAGICARD TURBO Color Printer the internal software version is printed on when using UR1 Dye Film. Note also that only be printed by a printer in isolation, Cyan background and Yellow-Magenta- Yellow-Magenta-Cyan-Black panels, a The card sh
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Quick Start Guide Ultra Electronics Card Systems Install the parallel Interface Cable I 3 1 Switch the printer OFF. Locate the UltraSecure Interface connector on the rear panel. (LPT1 or LPT2) 2 4 at the rear of the Magicard Printer. UltraSecure logo is now a standard feature programmed into the firmware of all TURBO models. It can be switched on/off from within the OVERCOAT section of the PrintMagic driver. If you wish to have a CUSTOM LOGO produced you must ask your dealer for a custom key or
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Ultra Electronics Card Systems Quick Start Guide Install the J Procedure to be followed if your PC uses • Start the PC and from the desktop • Select the H button: select the folder. Select and open the : • Insert the PrintMagic WINDOWS Driver • Select and open the icon. Disk into the PC Drive A. • Select the button: • Select the OK button: Page 15 MAGICARD TURBO Color Printer Next> Add Printer Printers folder My Computer ave Disk WINDOWS 95: WINDOWS Driver
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Quick Start Guide Ultra Electronics Card Systems • Select the button: • If you opt to print a test page, do so only if the printer is connected, switched ON, loaded with cards and dye film and ready to run. The test page may be incomplete. Select the button to complete the installation. • Select the desired port (usually LPT1 ) and select the button: You may then be offered the choice of which printer to use as the default printer. Select the PrintMagic MAGICARD and then select the button:
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Ultra Electronics Card Systems Quick Start Guide Printer K Printer Setup procedure to be followed if the default If you need to alter the default settings, the PrintMagic™ printer driver provides Changes to the printer setup options you with easy-to-use tab dialog boxes. performed via the Control Panel are non-volatile, until subsequently Along the bottom of the setup dialog changed, even though the PC may be boxes is a row of four Pushbuttons, switched off after use. Most software OK , Cancel ,
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Quick Start Guide Ultra Electronics Card Systems the range of 0 to 254 otherwise if the value of 255 is used (full black) the YMC Opposing Rotation Between Sides is only panels will be skipped and only K will be significant if interfacing to a Magicard Flip printed. Double-Sided printing model. Black to K Only - this option when Display Popup, when selected will enable selected will enable the printing of objects the Magicard printer spooler that normally such as lines, rectangles and graphics i
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Ultra Electronics Card Systems Quick Start Guide The default settings are for complete applies to Magicard Flip models so leave coverage to the card margins. For this checkbox switched off. MAGICARD 300 it is 0,36,947,631 and for Manual Flip Mode - Allows operators, MAGICARD 300 plus and Turbo it is running non-Flip models, to manually turn 0,0,985,641. The four numbers are the X the printed card over and reinsert for and Y coordinates of the bottom left and printing on the back. top right corn
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Quick Start Guide Ultra Electronics Card Systems position. A 1% shift is approximately close the setup window and to accept any 0.1mm changes that have been made. : Although you may be able to - This function allows the access the Printer Setup dialog window operator to adjust the position of the start from within a WINDOWS application, with of the image. A 1% shift is approximately some applications, the selected settings 0.1mm. For interfacing to earlier models, will prove to be volatile, and
