User manual POLAROID P100 PRINTER

[. . . ] 110439A © Polaroid Rev. 1. 1 FOREWORD This manual contains installation and operation information for the Polaroid P100 Series card printers manufactured by Polaroid Corporation. RETURN MATERIALS AUTHORIZATION Before returning any equipment to Polaroid Corporation for in-warranty or out-of-warranty repair, contact Repair Administration for a Return Materials Authorization (RMA) number. Repack the equipment in the original packing material and mark the RMA number clearly on the outside. Ship the equipment, freight prepaid, to the address given to you by Repair Administration. COPYRIGHT NOTICE This document contains information proprietary to Polaroid Corporation. This document and the information contained within are copyrighted by Polaroid Corporation and may not be duplicated in full or in part by any person without written approval from Polaroid. [. . . ] Do not feed more than one card at a time. 14 OPERATION 2. 6 Printing a Test Card With ribbon and cards loaded, your P100 printer is ready to print. To check the operation of the printer you should print a test card. 1. Press the Menu Button until the LCD screen shows "SELF TEST" 2. Test Card is printed on both sides of the card. This is an example of the test card. Front Side Back Side OPERATION 15 2. 7 Printer Menu Information The printer is equipped with a LCD Display and two key buttons which gives access to printer menus. Menu Button [NEXT] Clear Button [SELECT] The top line display shows menu information. The second line of display clarifies the function of the two [NEXT] and [SELECT] key buttons relative to the current menu item. The printer will return to READY Mode if either of the two key Buttons is not pressed within ten seconds of entering Menu mode. See next page: P100 LCD Menu Tree *If the printer is equiped with a Magnetic Stripe Encoder 16 OPERATION READY Next Next PRINTER INFO Next Select Printer Model Number Printer Firmware Version Number of impressions Reject Box Status To show the number of cards remaining in the reject box CLEANING MENU Next Select Select GO TO MAIN MENU Next Next CLEAN PRINT HEAD To clean the Thermal Print Head and card transport system CLEAN MAG. HEAD* To clean the magnetic Encoder Head Select To run cleaning Select Select SELF TEST MENU GO TO MAIN MENU Next Next Select TEST PATERN To print a printer test card PRINT PARAMETERS To print a test card showing the operating parameter settings of the printers MAG - PARAMETERS* To print a test card showing the operating parameter settings of magnetic encoder. Select Select To run printing Select PRINTER DEFAULTS Select GO TO MAIN MENU Next Next Select Ribbon type To show the type of ribbon installed. It may not match the ribbon physically installed until the installed ribbon has been selected through the driver Offset X: aa-Y:bb To show the X print location offset value in pixels (aa) To show the Y print location offset value in pixels (bb) Mag. Option: cccc To show the setting of the magnetic encoder as (cccc), which can be: - HICO (high coercivity) - LOCO (low coercivity) - NONE (no encoder present) Color Parameters To show the intensity values of Yellow (Y), Magenta (M) and Cyan (C) panels and contrast value of Black Resin (K) Panel. Select GO TO MAIN MENU Next OPERATION 17 18 Printing with the P100 Printer requires the Windows Printer Driver, your card design/issuing software or printer command level programming through the printer interface. The P100 Card Printer can be used with any Windows 95/98 or Windows NT 4. 0 software application program, using the drivers provided with the printer. This section contains information on the printing of a dual-sided card in color (using the 6-Panel color ribbon YMCKOK) and the Windows Printer Driver. BEFORE installing updated printer driver versions, always delete the existing printer driver version from your computer. PRINTING A SAMPLE CARD A SAMPLE CARD PRINTING 19 A. To install the P100 Printer Driver in Windows 95/98, use the following steps: IMPORTANT NOTE - ENSURE THAT YOUR PC PRINTER PORT IS SET TO STANDARD MODE AND ALSO ENSURE THAT YOU HAVE DELETED ANY PREVIOUS VERSIONS OF THIS PRINTER DRIVER. IF YOU HAVE ANY DOUBTS PLEASE CONTACT YOUR IT DEPARTMENT. This installation uses floppy drive 'A' or from CD Rom as the installation drive with the printer used as stand alone. ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° Start your computer and then Windows. Insert your 'Polaroid Driver' diskette into the drive 'A' or CD drive. Click on Have Disk and then type in 'A:\win95' and click OK. Choose LPT1 : Standard Printer Port, click on Next, select Yes to set as Default Printer and click on Finish to install. The Printer Wizard will copy the necessary files to the PC for you and the P100 printer driver installation will be completed. 20 PRINTING A SAMPLE CARD B. To install the P100 Printer Driver in Windows NT4. 0: Ensure that you have administrative privileges to perform this installation or contact your Information Technology Department. Set printer as Not Shared for stand alone use. Use the steps provided for Windows 95/98 installation with the exception of step 6. Once the printer driver has been successfully installed, you will need to configure it for your printer. This driver provides control of several printer features when printing from Windows applications. These features are accessed through the P100 Plastic Card Printer Properties. To access these properties select the P100 Card Printer icon in Printers. [. . . ] (See Chapter 2 for location. ) INTRODUCTION Operation and maintenance requirements for the P100 Printer with the optional magnetic card stripe encoder. The magnetic encoder can be set for either high or low coercivity. APPENDIX A APPENDIX A 39 A. MEDIA LOADING ORIENTATION The magnetic encoder is a factory installed item with the read/write head positioned below the card path, available with HICO encoding or LOCO encoding . STRIPE DOWN When loading cards into the Card Cartridge, please ensure that the magnetic stripe is facing down and closest to the rear. Also available are Printer models with the Magnetic Read/ Write head positioned above the card path, with HICO encoding or LOCO encoding . When loading cards, please ensure that the magnetic stripe is facing up and closest to the rear. STRIPE UP NOTE: M1 = Stripe Down HICO M2 = Stripe Down LOCO M3 = Stripe up HICO M4 = Stripe up LOCO Approved HICO & LOCO PVC cards are available. [. . . ]