FARGO electronic II manual How Your Color ID Card Printer Works Special Features, Introduction

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A. How Your

Color ID Card

Printer Works

B.Special Features

The Color ID Card Printer utilizes dye-sublimation printing technology to achieve its direct-to-card photo-quality output. Dye-sublimation is a process which uses a dye-based ribbon roll that is partitioned by a number of consecutive color panels. The panels are grouped in a repeating series of four separate colors, Yellow, Magenta, Cyan, and Black (YMCK), along the entire length of the ribbon. The ID Card Printer always prints the yellow panel first, followed by the magenta panel, the cyan panel, and finally the black panel. If applicable, the fifth clear overlay panel will always follow the black panel.

As the ribbon and card pass simultaneously beneath the printhead, the hundreds of thermal elements within the printhead heat the dyes on the ribbon. When these dyes are heated, they vaporize and diffuse into the surface of the card. By varying the heat intensity of each thermal element within the printhead, it is possible for each transferred dot of color to vary in hue, thus blending one color into the next. The result? Continuous-tone, photo- realistic color images.

The Color ID Card Printer will print from any IBM- PC¨ or compatible running Windowsª 3.1x or Windows 95. This means that you can use the printer with virtually any software package running under Windows without any special set- up or configuration beyond the initial installation of the specific software driver and interface cable.

Data is sent to the Color ID Card Printer in a bit- mapped, rasterized format so your computer, along with the printer driver software, will do almost all of the complex Raster Image Processing (ÒRIPÓ) work; therefore, the faster your computer, the faster the image will be RIPÕd and sent to the printer.

Your Color ID Card Printer has many distinct advantages over other color ID card printers. Its 100 card capacity card hopper allows for automatic card feeding which reduces the time and personnel required to create a photo ID card. In addition, the Color ID Card Printer offers:

■Automatic, dual-sided printing in color or monochrome

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Introduction

Congratulations on your purchase of the Color ID Card Printer. This printer has been designed to provide you with stunning, photo- quality color output on a variety of different card sizes and thicknesses. It offers many features which easily allow you to create full-color photo ID cards complete with high resolution graphics, text, bar codes, and even a clear or holographic overlaminate.

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Contents Color ID Card Printer Printing History For Users in the United States Table of Contents Appendix B Interfacing Information How Your Color ID Card Printer Works Special Features IntroductionPage Safety Precautions Sicherheits- maßnahmen VorsichtConsignes de sécurité AvertissementsPrecauciones de seguridad ¡PRECAUCIONPrecauzioni per la Sicurezza Precauções de Segurança CuidadoChinese or Japanese to be keylined here Chinese or Japanese to be keylined here Arabic to be keylined here Getting Started Identifying the Parts Power Ribbons and Cards About RibbonsPage Loading Ribbon into the Printer About Cards Page Loading Cards into the Printer Card Laminating About Printer’s LaminatorAbout Overlaminates Loading the Overlaminate into the Printer Take-up Roll Applying Power Running the Self TestHooking Up the Printer Connecting the Color ID Card Printer to Your Computer Page Windows Highlight the Install Unlisted or Updated Installing the 32-Bit Print Spooler for Windows Page Setting Up Windows Printer Driver Card Size Ribbon Type Color Matching Dither Mode OverlayPanel Graphics Panel Only Split Ribbon Print Page Fast 32-bit Spooler OrientationDuplex Printing Controls Magnetics Lamination Page Maintenance Supplies RequiredStandard Printhead Cleaning Expanded Printhead Cleaning Cleaning the Printer’s Case Inside Clearing a Card Jam Clearing a Ribbon Jam Cleaning the Card Feed Rollers Cleaning the Drive Roller Maintaining the Cleaning Rollers Adjusting Internal Card Guide Mechanical AdjustmentsAdjusting Card InputInternal Adjusting Card Separator Flap Card Flap Adjustment Adjusting the Laminator Top Edge Bottom Edge Trouble- shooting Symptoms printer makes strange sounds or stops printing My prints have streaks in them My prints have blotches small voids in themPage Page Technical Specifications Print SpeedMagnetic Stripe Encoding Module IntroductionTrack LocationsSending Track Information ~1%JULIE ANDERSON623-85-1253? Interfacing Information Introduction Centronics- type Parallel InterfaceIndex
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