Datacard Group ImageCard SelectTM and UltraGrafix SelectTM Printers Making cards, Status Light

2-8 Using the printer

Status Light

Steady green

Blinking green

Steady amber

Blinking amber

Steady red

Off

Description

The printer is ready and waiting to print cards.

The printer is busy printing cards.

The printer is paused without an error.

The printer has issued a message. See the PC for the message.#

The printer has a problem that requires service.

The printer power is off.

#.If the light blinks amber but no message appears on the PC, the following might have occurred:

*You used the Power-on/Ready sequence to print a test card. Messages are not reported.

*You changed the name of the printer. Remove and re-install the printer driver to change the printer name.

Making cards

This section describes several ways to make cards using the Select printer.

•Usually, cards are sent from a card creation application, such as Datacard’s ID Works™ which captures, organizes, and formats the information on the card. A card creation application is specially designed software that handles the types of information used on cards. See “Use a card creation application” for the steps to follow.

•If you do not have a card creation application, you can use another PC application to format the information to print on cards. If you are encoding magnetic stripe data, be sure to use an application in which you can save the result and edit it again, such as Windows WordPad™ or Word. See “Print from a PC application” for the steps to follow.

EWith any application, test your card design to verify the results.

Use a card creation application

1Follow the instructions for the card creation application to capture, format, and save the data for the card.

User’s Guide for ImageCard® Select™ and UltraGrafix® Select™ Printers