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Printer Driver for the Datacard
150i, 28x, and 450 Series
®
Printers on Windows 95 and 98
Installation and
Technical Reference Manual
November 2001
Part No. 526887-001, Rev B
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Revision Log Printer Driver for the Datacard Printers on Windows® 95 and 98 Installation and Technical Reference Manual Revision Date Affected Pages Description of Changes A May 1998 All New Release B December 2001 All Update for new company information and Windows 98. Liability Statement This Datacard product has been built to the high standards of DataCard Corporation. Please note and heed the WARNING and CAUTION labels that have been placed on the equipment for your safety.
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Table of Contents Introduction _______________________________________________________________________ 1 What’s in this Manual___________________________________________________________________1 Related Documents____________________________________________________________________2 System Requirements___________________________________________________________________3 Printer Driver Limitations ________________________________________________________________4 Embossing Limitations _________
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List of Tables Table 1: Supported Printer Capabilities................................................................................................ 1 Table 2: Text Fonts ................................................................................................................................. 18 Table 3: Embossing and Indent Type by Printer ............................................................................... 19 Table 4: Magnetic Stripe Tracks .............................
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Introduction The Datacard Printer Drivers for Windows® 95 and 98 provide users with the ability to print from those Microsoft® Windows operating systems to the Datacard 150i, 280, 285, and 450 Series card printers. The capabilities of these printers are listed in Table 1. Table 1: Supported Printer Capabilities Printer Capabilities 150i Emboss Indent Encode magnetic stripes Topping 280 Emboss Indent Encode magnetic stripes Print graphics Topping 285 Encode magnetic stripes Pr
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Printing in a Windows Environment. This chapter tells how to get information and procedures for pausing, resuming, and deleting print jobs. Troubleshooting. This chapter includes information and procedures for solving printing problems. Related Documents If you need additional information about the printer your system uses, refer to one of the documents listed below: Manual Manual Part CD-ROM Library Number Part Number Datacard 150i Card Personalization 526637-001 539170-001 System
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System Requirements The minimum system requirements for installing and using the printer driver for Windows 95 or 98 are: Microsoft Windows 95 or 98 An computer that meets the Windows minimum requirements One of the following: A 150i printer with the following firmware: Mainboard: 556228-501 Rev. A or above A 2xx printer with the following firmware: Mainboard: 596006-501 Rev. H or above Graphics: 596199-50x Rev. A or above A 450 printer with the following firm
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Printer Driver Limitations The Datacard printer driver for Windows 95 or 98 does not support: Two-sided badge printing using the Datacard QuikWorks software Encapsulated postscript (.eps) files Microsoft Windows 3.1 and NT (see separate driver for Windows NT and 2000) NTT (or J) encoding Smart card personalization Barcode generation: your Windows application must generate the barcode and pass it to the driver for printing “Indent” fonts do not display in WYSIWYG
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Installing the Printer Driver The Datacard printer driver for Windows 95 or 98 creates CPX ports. CPX ports are virtual ports that use your existing COM ports to communicate with your Datacard printer. No additional hardware is needed. Setting up an additional port in this way tells Windows to use a software component (called a Port Monitor) for printing to your Datacard printer. 1. From the Windows Start button, choose Settings and then Printers. The Printers dialog box appears. 2. Do
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6. Insert the driver disk or CD into the appropriate drive on your computer. Enter the drive identifier, and then click the OK button. 7. Select the description of your Datacard printer from the Printers list and click the Next button. After several seconds, the driver files will be on your system. You must now configure the driver so it knows which port the printer is connected to. 8. Click the Add Port button. 6 Windows 95 and 98 Printer Driver Installation and Technical Referen
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The Port Name dialog box appears. 9. Type the name of the CPX Port, and then click OK. The CPXx: dialog box appears. 10. Select the baud rate appropriate for your printer. Baud rates set at the factory are: Printer Default Baud Rate Recommended 150i 9600 280 and 285 9600 57600; 19200 if less than a Pentium 450 19200 Windows 95 and 98 Printer Driver Installation and Technical Reference 7
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If you select Confirmation for each data block processed, the operator must acknowledge the following message before the printer will continue to the next record. Card-by-card confirmation will reduce throughput. If you select Cache bitmaps in printer memory, the speed of printing can increase significantly when you use Printer type fonts and print the same bitmap (for example, a logo) on several consecutive cards. Other settings are optional. Datacard recommends that only authorize
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14. Select whether you want Windows to use your Datacard printer as the default printer. In most cases you should select No. 15. Click the Finish button. Windows completes the installation of your printer. Go on to the next procedure, Selecting Embossing and Indent Fonts. Windows 95 and 98 Printer Driver Installation and Technical Reference 9
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Selecting Embossing and Indent Fonts The information that follows explains how to identify to your Windows 95 application program which fonts are resident in your Datacard printer and how to complete the software settings. For a complete explanation of printer fonts, see Printer Fonts. Use the following procedure to select the printer fonts and complete the software settings 1. In the Printers window, select your Datacard printer. Then from the File menu, select Properties. The Proper
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4. For the 280, 285, and 450 printers, in the Page size area select the card size you are using. The printer driver refers to the card size as the paper size. Select a logical page size to restrict the printing and embossing to legal areas. If your Windows application does not use page sizes, you must manually position your information in the allowable print area. Be sure to allow a margin of at least 0.200 inch to the centerline of text for normal text, and a top margin of 0.35 inch
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9. Click OK to close the dialog box. 10. Click OK on the Properties dialog box to save your settings. Go on to the printer configuration options procedure for your printer. Setting 150i Printer Configuration Options The following procedure tells how to change the 150i printer configuration to work with the printer driver. The instructions begin with the printer powered off. 1. Power ON the 150i. When “150i/CPX” is displayed, immediately press the # key. The # key must be pressed befor
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Setting 28x Printer Configuration Options The following procedure tells how to change the 28x printer configuration to work with the printer driver for Windows 95 or 98. The instructions begin at the main menu of the printer’s display window. Setting Customer Engineer Configuration Options 1. At the Datacard 28x printer front panel, press Esc to go to the Main Menu. 2. Press F3 to choose Set Up. 3. Select F3 to choose Customer Engineer. 4. When prompted for an access code, press F2 a
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Setting Supervisor Configuration Options 1. Press F2 to choose Supervisor. 2. When prompted for an access code, press F1 and F2. 3. Verify and set the configuration options identified below. Use the function keys (F1, F2, and F3) to scroll through menus, select a menu, select menu options, and save options. Setup Menu option Value to select or enter Power Up Online Power Up Online = On Options Control Table Option = 1 (PRT-OFF, GFX-T0) Select Match Trigger Used Match = None Mags
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Setting 450 Printer Configuration Options The information that follows explains how to change the 450 printer configuration to work with the printer driver for Windows 95 or 98. Disabling Auto Remake 1. Press the READY button. The message, “Operator Setup Press Option Key” appears. 2. Press the OPTION button eight times. The current Auto Remake setting appears. 3. If necessary, press the ENTER button to set Auto Remake to Off. 4. Press the READY button. Setting Communication Parame
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15. If necessary, press the ENTER button until CR is displayed. 16. Press the OPTION button. The current Buffered Mode setting appears. 17. If necessary, press the ENTER button until Off is displayed. 18. Press the OPTION button. The current Data Conversion setting appears. 19. If necessary, press the ENTER button until ## is displayed. 20. Press the OPTION button. The current Protocol setting appears. 21. If necessary, press the ENTER button until CPX Special is displayed. If you cycl
