FARGO electronic Pro-L manual Picture Controls, Print Back Side Only

Pro-L Card Printer User’s Manual

or (b) leave the existing ribbon in the printer and press the Pause/Resume button. In the case of option (b), once the Pause/Resume button is pressed, the printer will continue printing until the end of the ribbon, but will beep once and display the "Low Ribbon/Clean" message before each print job. It will not be necessary to press the Pause/Resume button again to continue printing once it has been pressed initially during a batch print.

When this option is not selected, the printer will beep and the "Low Ribbon/Clean" message will display on the printer's LCD when approximately 10 prints remain on the print ribbon; however, the printer will not pause. Instead, it will continue printing until the end of the ribbon, and will beep once and display the "Low Ribbon/Clean" message before each print job.

Picture Controls

Select this button to display options for controlling the Contrast and Gamma of the printed image, as well as the individual color balance of Yellow, Magenta, and Cyan. In most cases, the default settings of these options will suffice.

To control the overall darkness and lightness of the printed image, adjust the Dye- Sub Intensity slide by clicking and dragging the slide’s box or by clicking on the left and right arrows. Moving the slide to the left causes less heat to be used in the printing process, thus generating a lighter print. Moving the slide to the right causes more heat to be used, thus generating a darker print. This slide only affects those images printed with dye-sublimation ribbon panels (YMCB). As a result, this slide will not appear if printing with a resin-only ribbon.

To control the amount of heat the printer uses when printing with the resin black panel(s) of a full-color ribbon or when printing with a resin-only ribbon, adjust the Resin Heat slide. Moving the slide to the left causes less heat to be used in the printing process, causing resin images to be lighter or less saturated. Moving the slide to the right causes more heat to be used, causing resin images to be darker or more saturated. This control can be helpful for fine tuning the saturation of resin text and bar codes.

When the Algebraic color matching option is selected, all control options will display and can be adjusted. When the None or Monitor option is selected, only the Dye-Sub Intensity and Resin Heat sliders will display.

Print Back Side Only

Select this option to print only onto the back side of a card. This option allows you to conveniently print the back side of preprinted cards which also must have their magnetic stripe or smart card chip encoded. Be sure to load cards in the usual fashion as described in Section 4-D. Note that when this option is selected, the Print Both Sides option is automatically disabled.

Section 6: Using Your Card Printer

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