Depending on the application used to create the card layout, elements of the design may be identified in different ways to the printer driver. This printer driver recognizes, and rasterizes, five types of elements: text, lines and pixels, area fills, monochrome bitmaps, and color bit maps:

•Text is text which is sent explicitly as such to the printer driver.

•Lines and pixels are lines and dots (pixels) sent as such to the printer driver.

•Area fills are color-filled geometric shapes.

•Monochrome bitmaps are 1-bit bitmaps (every pixel either black or white).

•Color bitmaps are full color uncompressed pixel maps.

The above elements may not always be sent to the driver as expected. For example, a bar code may be sent as text, a series of area fills, or a monochrome bitmap. Results will vary by application used to create the card design. Another variable, again controlled by the card layout application, is the precedence (stacking order) of the various element types in the event that one or more of them overlap.

Any of the above five elements may be selected for black extraction when the ribbon is set up to apply YMC (color) and K (black) to the same surface of the card. In this condition, the driver generates an extracted K image by looking for “true-black” features in the selected element types, that is, instances where all three YMC values are at the maximum (full intensity). Each such true-black instance generates a corresponding cluster of black pixels in the extracted image, which will be printed with the K (black) panel either on top of the YMC image, or replacing it entirely – your choice.

Printing Preferences

Magnetic Encoding

Reference Technical Note 3, Magnetic Encoder

Printing Preferences

ID/Log

Reference Technical Note 7, ID/Log

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