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Technology Co., Ltd. Please forgive that any change of this manual will not be further noticed. Shenzhen Seaory Technology Co., Ltd shall take no responsibility for any errors (if any) in this manual, accidental damage of printer, or losses caused by this manual contents.
Seaory S22 Desktop Dual-sided Card Printer 1. Product features Main function A. Dual-sided printing B. Automatic batch feeding C. Back-end manual feeding, alarm for no card, few card, defective card slot was full D. Card holding, timeout automatic recovery E. Feeding card by roller & hook F.
Seaory S22 Desktop Dual-sided Card Printer Back-end Card exit mouth Output hopper Main function description: Card exit mouth: It can be Manual single card feeding mouth or Back-end card exit mouth. Card spit out length can be set freely. Output hopper: Storage printed cards, 50pcs 0.76mm PVC cards input capacity.
Seaory S22 Desktop Dual-sided Card Printer Main function description: Bottom cover: Place to install magnetic stripe card and chip card encoding module. Card printer bar code: Information needed when you need technical services from us. Internal structures Main function description:...
Seaory S22 Desktop Dual-sided Card Printer Main function description: (1) Output hopper: storage printed cards, 50pcs 0.76mm PVC cards input capacity. (2) Power adapter: convert DC voltage. (3) Power cable: connect to power adapter. (4) USB cable: communication connection between PC and card printer.
Install ribbon Step1: Open the ribbon box, take out the ribbon. Cleaning card Ribbon Cleaning roller In order to ensure the normal use of the printer, please use Seaory original ribbon. Excellent quality, Perfect service www.seaory.com 9 / 53...
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Seaory S22 Desktop Dual-sided Card Printer Step2: Install the ribbon into the cartridge according to the color direction. Red roller supply with unused ribbon. White roller supply with used ribbon. Red end is supply roller with unused ribbon. White end is pickup roller with used ribbon.
Seaory S22 Desktop Dual-sided Card Printer Adjust the feed card thickness Open the upper cover and input hopper dust cap, move the yellow lever to adjust the feed card thickness. Support 0.3mm to 1.0mm thickness cards. Factory preset thickness is 0.8mm.
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Seaory S22 Desktop Dual-sided Card Printer Contact chip cards require the chip face up, otherwise data can not be read or written to the chip card. Put the card like an ATM direction). ⚫ Chip face up ⚫ Chip toward card exit mouth If you are using magnetic strip card, please place the card according to below picture (magnetic strip at right side).
Seaory S22 Desktop Dual-sided Card Printer Install output hopper Attach output hopper to the card printer’s card exit mouth at back side. Card exit mouth Output hopper Output hopper is to storage printed cards. Wiring installation Step 1: Take out the power cable and power adapter from the accessories box.
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Power adapter Main socket Card printer To ensure the card printer work stably, please use Seaory original power adapter. Step 3: Communication interface cables installation USB communication interface installation: USB-A interface (square type) connect to PC end and USB-B interface (round type) connect to card printer’s USB port.
Seaory S22 Desktop Dual-sided Card Printer Ethernet communication interface installation: RJ45 network interface, 568B connection mode. Interchanger Card printer Support USB and Ethernet communication interface. It’s recommended to choose one. 6. Driver installation Operation system Support Windows XP/7/8/10, Windows Server...
(please refer to 5.5 wiring installation). Driver installation steps (USB communication interface) Step 1: Double-click the icon “Seaory S series driver exe”. Please install driver by administrator and close all antivirus applications before installation. Step 2: Then click “Install” button as show in below picture.
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Seaory S22 Desktop Dual-sided Card Printer Step 3: Wait for one minute. Step 4: Please select always trust software from “Shenzhen Seaory Technology Co., Ltd.” in the pop-up windows, then click the “Install” button. Excellent quality, Perfect service www.seaory.com 17 / 53...
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Step 6: Turn on the card printer power switch, then card printer driver will install automatically. After it, click “Control panel – Hardware and sound – Devices and printers” you can find Seaory S22 was installed completely. Excellent quality, Perfect service www.seaory.com...
If you need to use Ethernet communication interface, please make sure the USB interface was connected with PC before operating as below: Step 1: Put your mouse on the selected “Seaory S22” printer, and click the right button, from the Printer menu, select “Printing preferences”.
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Seaory S22 Desktop Dual-sided Card Printer Step 3: After click “Network setting”, choose “Gets current setting”, you will find the card printer Model number, firmware version, MAC address etc. Step 4: Click “Static IP”, type in internet IP address, subnet mask, gateway information.
Seaory S22 Desktop Dual-sided Card Printer Driver installation (Ethernet communication interface) According to “6.4 network setting operating guide”, setting up the printer IP information, access to the network line and using the Ping command on the computer side to confirm the printer is communicating with the computer.
If the card printer has set IP parameters already, you can also choose the “Automatic search” to add. 7. Driver setting Printing preferences Put your mouse on the selected “Seaory S22 printer”, and click the right button, from the printer menu, select “Printing preferences”. Printing preferences...
Seaory S22 Desktop Dual-sided Card Printer Ribbon type setting (1)Automatically detect the installed ribbon for every print job” is default chosen. Detect the installed ribbon is default option and suggest to keep it. (2)When “Automatically detect the installed ribbon for every print job”...
Seaory S22 Desktop Dual-sided Card Printer Printing orientation setting (1)Portrait or landscape. Default selected landscape orientation. (2)Single or double side printing setting. Default only print front side, if need double-side printing, please also select print back side. Printing page rotate setting Default not selected, if selected “rotate 180”, the printing page will rotary...
Seaory S22 Desktop Dual-sided Card Printer Feeding card mode setting (1)Card feeder: Card feeding from input hopper automatically. It’s default chosen. (2)Manual feeding card piece by piece from back end manual feed slot is optional. Input hopper Back end manual feed slot Excellent quality, Perfect service www.seaory.com...
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Seaory S22 Desktop Dual-sided Card Printer (3)Hook feeding mode setting You can find below page in bottom left of “Printing Preferences” - ”Print Option”. A. When the “hook mode” and “retry by hook mode” are not chosen, the card feeding by roller only.
Seaory S22 Desktop Dual-sided Card Printer Eject card setting (1)Defaulted card moving out from “output hopper” after finished printing. (2)Wait for removal, default not selected, if selected, card will wait for removal in the ejection card slot after finished printing.
Seaory S22 Desktop Dual-sided Card Printer Reject card setting You can find below page in “Printing Preferences” - “Print Option” menu. Seaory S22 printing Prefereces Defaulted: Defective card will moving out from “reject card box”. Defective card moving out from “output hopper” or “reject tray” are optional.
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Seaory S22 Desktop Dual-sided Card Printer Advanced card in and card out options setting Default setting as below: It can adjust according to the actual application requirements. Seaory S22 printing Prefereces Excellent quality, Perfect service www.seaory.com 29 / 53...
Seaory S22 Desktop Dual-sided Card Printer Image color setting The driver default is optimal, normally it does not need to change, if has to, you can custom. Reset: means restore factory default image color setting. Apply: means after setting new parameter value, click “apply” to take effect.
Seaory S22 Desktop Dual-sided Card Printer Print area setting 7.10 (1)Default print area is full page printing. ⚫ Default YMCO and K are edge to edge printing. ⚫ Default front side and back side are edge to edge printing. The black area in above picture is the printing area.
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Seaory S22 Desktop Dual-sided Card Printer (2)Customize printing area Click ”add area”, input or adjust X,Y value and length and width value. ⚫ Red double arrow: represents the distance from the X-axis to the white area. ⚫ Yellow double arrow: represents the distance from the Y-axis to the white area.
Seaory S22 Desktop Dual-sided Card Printer The black area in above picture is the printing area, white area is no printing area. Magnetic encoding setting 7.11 Function: for any software to edit the text between the filter characters, when printing, the printer encoding the same text.
Seaory S22 Desktop Dual-sided Card Printer Heating energy setting 7.12 When the printing color is relatively light, it’s necessary to increase the heating energy value. When the printing color is dark or ribbon is easy to break, the heating energy value need to decrease.
Seaory S22 Desktop Dual-sided Card Printer Tool setting 7.13 Card printer’s related information can be find as below picture. Driver will choose the same language as your computer operating system during installation. More language will be support in the future.
Seaory S22 Desktop Dual-sided Card Printer Position calibrate 7.14 To correct the printing position when the white edge appears on cards, and no correction is required by default. ⚫ L is print start position, decrease L value when the start side has white edge.
Seaory S22 Desktop Dual-sided Card Printer Cleaning tool 7.15 Deposition of dust or contaminants inside the card printer may cause damage to important parts and affect the printing effect. Therefore, it’s recommended to clean the printer when changing the ribbon or at least clean one time a month.
Seaory S22 Desktop Dual-sided Card Printer Magnetic stripe tool 7.16 If card’s side colored lines appear: Decrease (-) white end value Or increase (+) red end value. If card’s inside colored lines appear: Increase (+) white end value or decrease (-) red end value.
Seaory S22 Desktop Dual-sided Card Printer Ribbon tension adjustment 7.17 If card’s side colored lines appear: Decrease (-) white end value Or increase (+) red end value. If card’s inside colored lines appear: Increase (+) white end value or decrease (-) red end value.
Seaory S22 Desktop Dual-sided Card Printer Other tools 7.18 (1)Renew print head: please renew the new print head barcode after replaced print head. Otherwise it may lead to print problem. (2)Network setting: card printer IP information reference tool. More details please check 5.4 section.
Seaory S22 Desktop Dual-sided Card Printer 8. Print test Driver test page Step 1: open “Printing preferences”, click “Tool”, find and click “Position calibrate”. Step 2: Place some white card into input hopper, then click” Print Test Chart”. Print test card picture Excellent quality, Perfect service www.seaory.com...
Seaory iCARDE card design software After all the above steps are completed, relevant software can be used to print and test the card printer. You can also do print test through Seaory’s iCARDE software. For details, please refer to Seaory iCARDE manual.
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Seaory S22 Desktop Dual-sided Card Printer (1) Driver operating guide please refer to 7.15 section. (2)LCM operating guide: Step 1: Take out the cleaning card from the accessory box and remove the 3M hyaline layer on cleaning card’s both sides and put it into input hopper.
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Seaory S22 Desktop Dual-sided Card Printer Step 4: Open the cover, take out ribbon cartridge, and then close the upper cover. Take out ribbon Open the upper cartridge cover Close the upper cover Step 5: Press “OK” one time. The card printer will start to cleaning.
Seaory S22 Desktop Dual-sided Card Printer 9.3 Cleaning print head Print head is the most important and valuable part of card printer. Like a car, it’s a consumable product that will eventually breakdown. Only continuous attention to maintenance can extend it’s lifespan.
Seaory S22 Desktop Dual-sided Card Printer Step 3: Wipe the print head in one direction, from left to right or right to left with cleaning stick. Do not wipe back and forth. Generally wipe 3-5 times will be ok. Wipe in one direction Avoid print head direct contact with metal objects, sharp objects or fingers, and do not contaminate any liquid to clean the print head.
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Seaory S22 Desktop Dual-sided Card Printer Step 2: Turn off the card printer, open the upper cover and find the print head show in below picture. Print head Step 3: Look closely at the mounting structure on both sides of the print head.
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Seaory S22 Desktop Dual-sided Card Printer Step 4: Remove print head Hold the print head on both sides by hand and press the print head toward the cover. At this time, the spring will be compressed. Loosen the print head when the small cylinder on both sides of the print head comes out of the metal hook.
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Seaory S22 Desktop Dual-sided Card Printer Step 5: Install new print head Take out the new print head and connect the print head wiring to the wiring plug. Note that the direction of the wiring plug must be the same as the print head interface.
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Seaory S22 Desktop Dual-sided Card Printer Finished Step 6: Enter the new print head serial number into the driver. Failure to enter may result in an abnormal print. Open “Printing preferences”, click “Tool”, find and click “Renew print head”. New printhead serial number Excellent quality, Perfect service www.seaory.com...
Seaory S22 Desktop Dual-sided Card Printer 11. Common fault codes and Solutions The card printer happen to meet some faults in the process of use, and the most direct way to judge the faults is to see the code displayed on the LCM display screen of the card printer.
Seaory S22 Desktop Dual-sided Card Printer 12. FAQ When card print no action 12.1 ⚫ Verify that the card printer driver is installed correctly ⚫ Check power and USB cable connections ⚫ Check ribbons and cards ⚫ Print test picture When print out the blank card 12.2...
Seaory S22 Desktop Dual-sided Card Printer ⚫ Check whether the print head is not clean or damaged When the printed card appears white vertical or color 12.6 lines ⚫ Print head maybe was damaged When the printed card appears blurry image 12.7...
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