Zebra Technologies P640i A typical card production sequence

Introduction

INDICATOR LIGHT SUMMARY

A typical card production sequence

Several variations are possible, such as multi-pass color printing on the back surface (instead of the black-only printing shown here).

1. Blank cards are loaded face down in the hop- per, with the mag stripe (if any) toward the front.

2. The carriage pushes the bottom card out of the deck, carrying it under the mag encoder.

3. After passing under the encoder, the card surface is cleaned by a tacky roller (which is itself decontaminated periodically by adhesive tape in the cleaning cassette).

4. The carriage drives the card under the print head, which transfers black characters and/or bar code from the K panel onto the back surface of the card.

5. The carriage pushes the back-printed card into the flip station, which elevates the card then flips it through 180o.

6. The card, now face up, is returned to the car- riage, which is then reversed into position for a second cleaning operation.

7. After its face cleaning the card is driven under the print head again, this time to print a yellow (Y) dye image - the first of three color passes.

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