Prima 2e Table of contents

Table of contents
1. Legal and Copyright Information.........................................................................................................5
2. Installation..............................................................................................................................................6
2.1. Printer Driver Installation...................................................................................................................6
2.2. Advanced Printer Configuration......................................................................................................14
3. Printing Preferences............................................................................................................................17
3.1. Introduction into driver and print technology...................................................................................17
3.2. Layout / Setup.................................................................................................................................18
3.2.1. Page Orientation.........................................................................................................................18
3.2.2. Set-up for Control of Printing / Encoding....................................................................................18
3.2.3. Set-up for use of cards with magnetic stripe or smartchip (Card Type).....................................19
3.2.4. Set-up for Layout Orientation......................................................................................................19
3.3. K/PO Panel .....................................................................................................................................20
3.3.1. Introduction.................................................................................................................................20
3.3.2. Default Settings ..........................................................................................................................20
3.3.3. Selection of text objects to be printed on K-plane......................................................................20
3.3.4. Selection of black & white images to print on K-plane ...............................................................22
3.3.5. K Plane options...........................................................................................................................22
3.3.6. PO Panel Area Definition (Peel Off)...........................................................................................28
3.4. Advanced........................................................................................................................................32
3.4.1. Global Print Offset and K Plane Offset.......................................................................................32
3.4.2. Synchronization..........................................................................................................................32
3.4.3. Track Formats.............................................................................................................................33
3.4.4. Card Output................................................................................................................................33
3.4.5. Material Usage............................................................................................................................34
3.4.6. Sample of magnetic stripe Encoding..........................................................................................35
4. Advanced Intelligent Printer Management (AIPM)...........................................................................36
4.1. Introduction .....................................................................................................................................36
4.2. Dispatcher.......................................................................................................................................36
4.2.1. Printers........................................................................................................................................37
4.2.2. Material Capacity List .................................................................................................................37
4.2.3. Print Jobs....................................................................................................................................37
4.2.4. Tools...........................................................................................................................................38
5. Administration Center.........................................................................................................................40
5.1. Printer Settings................................................................................................................................40
5.1.1. Re-transfer settings ....................................................................................................................41
5.1.2. Bend remedy...............................................................................................................................41
5.1.3. Ink settings..................................................................................................................................41
5.1.4. Other settings..............................................................................................................................41
5.1.5. Print setting transfers..................................................................................................................42
5.2. Options............................................................................................................................................43
5.2.1. General Options..........................................................................................................................43
5.2.2. Printer Driver Profiles and Printer Grouping Definition...............................................................44
5.2.3. Setting up Printing Preferences and Managing of Printer Driver Profiles ..................................50
5.3. LUT / Password...............................................................................................................................51
5.3.1. Lookup Table Configuration........................................................................................................51
5.3.2. Password....................................................................................................................................51
5.4. Driver Config...................................................................................................................................52
6. Advanced Chip Encoding Framework (ACEF)................................................................................. 53
6.1. Plugin architecture ..........................................................................................................................54
6.2. Software and Hardware Setup........................................................................................................55
6.2.1. Plugin Info...................................................................................................................................55
6.2.2. Port Assignment .........................................................................................................................56
6.2.3. Format Templates.......................................................................................................................58
6.2.4. Configuration (Global Settings and Test) ...................................................................................60
6.3. Application Setup............................................................................................................................61
6.4. Multi-printer encoding......................................................................................................................62
6.5. Printing and encoding over network................................................................................................63
6.6. Multiple encodings on one card......................................................................................................63
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