Ultra electronic XID580ie Printing and encoding over network, Multiple encodings on one card

Prima 3 Driver Manual

6.5. Printing and encoding over network

Multiple workstations on the network can print on a PC that has one or more printers attached locally and has shared the printers in Windows. Such a PC is called print server.

On the print server, it is mandatory that a user is logged on, otherwise the dispatcher will not be able to process the jobs.

As the encoding string is embedded in the layout, the encoding string is transported inside the print job (or spool job) over the network from the printing workstation to the print server.

The print server will properly process the job including the encoding, and distribute it to the corresponding printers.

In an operator-less mode, it is even possible to re-encode and print failed jobs on other free printers with the option "Redistribute print job" on the Options page of Administration Center. This guarantees that all cards in the batch will be produced without user interaction - assuming that enough printers are in the group for high availability.

6.6. Multiple encodings on one card

The driver is capable of handling multiple encoding strings in one layout, which might be

-different encoding format templates with one encoder

-contact encoding and contactless encoding

-combination with magstripe

Usually, the driver processes the strings in the order how they are sent from the printing application. Since it is impossible to determine this, and since this differs for each application, a special keyword allows specifying the processing sequence of multiple encoding strings. Using the so-called "sequence order", the encoding and printing process can be tweaked to be performed in the fastest possible way.

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