Reading The Serial Numbers On The Printer; Finding Out When A Fargo Card Printer Was Manufactured - HID HDP5000 User Manual

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Reading the Serial Numbers on the Printer

The purpose of this section is to provide updated instructions for reading serial numbers on a
Fargo Printer.

Finding out when a Fargo Card Printer was manufactured

You can determine when your card Printer was manufactured by reading directly from the
serial number (affixed to your card Printer).
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Year Built: The first two digits in the serial number indicate the year that the Printer was
manufactured.
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Week Built: The second two digits indicate the week.
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Numeric Order: The last four digits indicate the sequence number for the numeric order
in which the Printer's were built.
Reviewing Example: Serial Number A9090001
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A9090001: The first two digits in the serial number indicate the year the Printer was built
(e.g., the letter and digit A9 indicate the year 2009).
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A9090001: The third and fourth digits in the serial number indicate the week the Printer
was built (e.g., the digits 09 indicate week 9 of that year).
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A9090001: The last four digits indicate the sequence number for the numeric order in
which the Printer's were built.
Reviewing Example: Serial Number B0090001
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B0090001: The first two digits in the serial number indicate the year the Printer was built
(e.g., the letter and digit A9 indicate the year 2010).
•
B0090001: The third and fourth digits in the serial number indicate the week the Printer
was built (e.g., the digits 09 indicate week 9 of that year).
•
B0090001: The last four digits indicate the sequence number for the numeric order in
which the Printer's were built.
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