Card Design Changes That Affect Bar Codes; Print Bar Codes With The Card Printer Driver - DataCard SD260 Installation And Administration Manual

Card Design Changes That Affect Bar Codes

If you make substantial changes to the way you produce cards, review setup tasks
to make sure that cards continue to have the quality you require.
Substantial changes that can affect bar codes include:
Changing from batch processing to issuing single cards (or changing from
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issuing single cards to batch processing). Check for differences in K printing
and full‐color printing.
Purchasing a new brand of card stock, which can change the color of some
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images.
Changing to, or from, preprinted cards, which can change the color of some
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images.
Moving the card printer to a new location, where environmental changes
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such as amount of light or relative humidity can affect images, supplies, or
printer operation.
If you change the design of your cards, or if you start producing an additional card
design, review setup tasks to make sure that each design prints as required. Test
new card designs as described in this guide. You might identify changes to your
process to support production of more than one design.

Print Bar Codes With the Card Printer Driver

The Card Printer Driver includes a setting that allows the printer to use the
black (K) panel to print the bars of a bar code embedded in a color image, making
it more likely to be read by a scanner. When the Driver Printing Preferences
option Print black image pixels using monochrome is set to On, the Card Printer
Driver prints the seven black‐most shades (from a palette of 256 shades) using
the K panel of a color print ribbon. Refer to the printer's Driver Guide for
complete information about how to specify this setting.
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