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D-40 Operation Manual
Chapter 3 - Printing Cards
Printing cards is the basic function of the ImageMaster™ D-40. Cards are printed in one of
two basic modes of operation—as a standalone printer or as an external printer connected to
a PC or Host computer.
3-1 External Printer
When the D-40 is connected to a PC or other Host computer for all intense purposes it acts
like any other printer, excepting information from the PC and printing as instructed. The
operator interface is mostly with a software program loaded into the host computer – such as
the NBS SmartSys™ program and printer driver. The D-40 is selected as the active output
printer and gets it's data and layout information from the Host computer. The basic operator
interface with the D-40 is to load and remove cards, change printer ribbon and cleaning foil
when needed. The printing instruction come from the Host computer when the computer is
directed to print cards. This connection is explained in the Card programing software
manuals – such as NBS SmartSys Operating Manual – and is not covered in this chapter.
This chapter is mostly concerned with Standalone Printer operation
3-2 Standalone Printer
When used as a standalone printer operator interface is mostly with the D-40 printer and the
keyboard. The card layouts are created within the D-40 firmware. The fields in the layout are
created expecting to see certain types of input data – fixed, variable, or host.
• Fixed data is permanent data entered in a field at the time of the card layout creation
and is the same for all cards.
• Variable data is keyboard entered data. It is unique data for each card but means
cards are printed one at a time.
• Host data is data coming from some external source, usually a PC over a network or
direct connect to the D-40. This is different from the "external printer" explanation
above in that the layout is within the D-40, only the data is coming from the external
source.
Creating card layouts is not the purpose of this chapter and is described elsewhere.
3-3 Print Command
The Print command on the main menu assumes that the active layout is the desired layout for
card creation. The last layout used will be the active layout when the unit is powered up.
Refer to Chapter 2- Main Menu description for instructions to change the active layout from
among the pre-designed layouts resident in the D-40.
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