The Eltron Company P310 manual Options, Major Elements Card Feeder

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objects. For those who wish to create card graphics from their software applications, the units ship with both Windows 95/98 and NT drivers. Both drivers support True Type fonts.

1.1.1 Options

Plastic card varieties include Smart Cards and cards with Magnetic Stripes. Because not everyone may want to use associated capabilities, integration of related hardware is offered as options. Encoders can place data on either high- or low-coercivity stripes. With reference to the Card Loading, P310 Printers can be configured for either up- or down-facing magnetic stripes. However, unless specified otherwise, P310 Printers ship with the read/write heads positioned to encode down-facing stripes—printing always occurs on the up-facing card surface.

1.2Major Elements

Figure 1-1 shows the Printer assemblies visible with the cover raised.

Figure 1-1. Major Elements

1.2.1 Card Feeder

With the Card Feeder set for a proper thickness, Cards placed in the Card Input Hopper enter the printer one at a time in response to Card Feed Commands. A manual Card Gate adjustment lets users establish a suitable card thickness setting. Eltron Card Printer Products offers cards in popular 0.02- and 0.03-inch thicknesses. However, users can

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