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  • Page 1 Prima Reverse transfer ID card printer Printer Driver Manual P R O F E S S I O N A L S E R I E S Secure ID card printers...
  • Page 2 Prima 3 Driver Manual Welcome to the high performance printer driver for the Prima 3 series printer. This manual will help you to install, set-up and configure the driver to get the best results for your prints. The driver runs on 32-bit Windows platforms and was successfully tested under Windows 2000, Windows XP Professional as well as under new Windows Vista operating system.

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    Table of contents Legal and Copyright Information ...6 Installation...7 2.1. Printer Driver Installation...7 2.2. Advanced Printer Configuration ...15 Printing Preferences...18 3.1. Introduction into driver and print technology ...18 3.2. Layout / Setup ...19 3.2.1. Page Orientation ...19 3.2.2. Set-up for Control of Printing / Encoding ...19 3.2.3.
  • Page 4 6.3. Application Setup ...66 6.4. Multi-printer encoding...67 6.5. Printing and encoding over network...68 6.6. Multiple encodings on one card ...68 6.7. Precoding ...69 6.8. Encoding String...70 6.8.1. Encoding string examples...73 Troubleshooting and known limitations ...75 Appendix A...76 Prima 3 Driver Manual...

  • Page 5: Legal And Copyright Information

    Prima 3 Driver Manual Legal and Copyright Information This product is provided on an "as is" basis, without any other warranties, or conditions, expressed or implied, including but not limited to warranties of merchantable quality, merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose, or those arising by law, statute, usage of trade or course of dealing. You assume the entire risk as to the results and performance of the Software.

  • Page 6: Printer Driver Installation

    Prima 3 Driver Manual Installation Cont. 2.1. Printer Driver Installation Note 1: It is recommended to install the driver before you connect the printer to the PC! Note 2: System administrator privileges are required for driver installation! Log on to Windows as system administrator. Start the installer program "Setup XID5xx 5.5.exe"...
  • Page 7 Prima 3 Driver Manual Note: Please note that you have to choose the exact name of the delivered member of our XID Printer Family. The wrong choice will result in a non-working printer!!! An administrator password can be set during initial installation. This password grants access to the Administration Center.
  • Page 8 Prima 3 Driver Manual Note: It is recommended to use the proposed default path. Please verify the path shown and click "Next". Click "Install" to continue. Click "Continue Anyway" to continue the installation.
  • Page 9 Prima 3 Driver Manual Click "Continue Anyway" to continue the installation. Click "Continue Anyway" to continue the installation. Now the files will be installed.
  • Page 10 Prima 3 Driver Manual Click on "Finish" to complete the installation.A reboot may be necessary, as shown below. Please wait until the driver installation is completed, then click "Finish". The selected printer should appear here (see arrow): Under Start -> Programs -> XID5xx Printer, you should see the related modules...
  • Page 11 Prima 3 Driver Manual By calling the printer properties, from the "General" tab, you can print a test page as follows: After your test page has been printed successfully, click "OK". After the installation has been completed, connect the printer to the PC and power on. The Hardware Wizard appears and shows a signature warning: Click "Continue"...
  • Page 12 Prima 3 Driver Manual The Wizard will ask you to connect to Windows Update: Choose "No, not this time" and click "Next". Choose "Install the software automatically" and click "Next". Note: The hardware name ("XID 5xxie U2") may differ depending on the firmware and the ID of the printer.
  • Page 13 Prima 3 Driver Manual The Hardware wizard will install the needed files automatically. Click "Finish" to close the Hardware Wizard. Congratulations! You have successfully finished the printer driver installation.

  • Page 14: Advanced Printer Configuration

    Prima 3 Driver Manual 2.2. Advanced Printer Configuration If the printer is used in a network environment and will be shared with other users, then click "Shared as:" and name the printer. Afterwards other users can select this printer within the network environment.
  • Page 15 Prima 3 Driver Manual The Color Management settings should only be used by experienced users.
  • Page 16 Prima 3 Driver Manual Note: The screenshot may differ depending on system configuration: On the "About" tab you will find the version of the installed printer driver:...

  • Page 17: Printing Preferences

    Printing Preferences 3.1. Introduction into driver and print technology In graphic user interfaces all options are shown dynamically as there are card feeding, loading card in magazine, card leaving the printer etc. The printing technology contains printing of the colors as a mixture from Yellow, Magenta and Cyan ("Y", "M", "C").

  • Page 18: Layout / Setup

    Prima 3 Driver Manual 3.2. Layout / Setup 3.2.1. Page Orientation This option will be used to setup the page orientation between Portrait and Landscape. 3.2.2. Set-up for Control of Printing / Encoding This option sets up the control of "Print and Encode", "Encode only" or "No Encoding".

  • Page 19: Set-Up For Layout Orientation

    Prima 3 Driver Manual Set-up for use of cards with magnetic stripe or smartchip (Card Type) If the "Magstripe" or "Smartchip" checkbox is enabled, all options regarding encoding and positioning of card will be enabled. In addition, the "Card placement in the printer tray" shows dynamically the correct images to the operator.

  • Page 20: K/Po Panel

    Flip Axis: Here you can setup the orientation of the 'card body', which is the same as the function as former 'Image Orientation'. The advantage is that you do not need to imagine how the card will rotate. Just pick up a card and you will understand the idea behind flipping the card horizontally or vertically.

  • Page 21: Selection Of Text Objects To Be Printed On K-Plane

    Prima 3 Driver Manual 3.3.3. Selection of text objects to be printed on K-plane By enabling "Text", you are able to specify if all text or only black text should be printed on the K-plane. Sample: The upper text box was printed with K and the lower box with YMC:...

  • Page 22: Selection Of Black & White Images To Print On K-Plane

    Prima 3 Driver Manual 3.3.4. Selection of black & white images to print on K-plane By enabling "Black and White Images" you can specify if black or black & grey images should be printed on the K plane. 3.3.5. K Plane options 3.3.5.1.
  • Page 23 Prima 3 Driver Manual It is recommended to choose either black or an extreme color, which will not be used in the rest of the layout. Pure colors (like Magenta) will never appear in digital photos, so it is safe to use them without introducing side-effects.
  • Page 24 Prima 3 Driver Manual 3.3.5.2. Definition of areas for printing on K-plane In combination with the special colors (see chapter 3.3.5), you can define inclusion areas: After clicking on the area button the following dialog window appears:...
  • Page 25 Prima 3 Driver Manual To create a new area: Click and draw a rectangle area while pressing and holding down the CTRL-key on the keyboard. To edit an area: Select an area you want to move or resize by clicking on the area itself or choose it from the list.
  • Page 26 Prima 3 Driver Manual Preview of defined sample K-Panel areas Measurement changes The following sample shows a change of units e.g. from Pixel to Inch...
  • Page 27 Prima 3 Driver Manual Tip: Keeping values after disabling gives you the flexibility to design the areas before you enable this setting.

  • Page 28: Po Panel Area Definition (Peel Off)

    Prima 3 Driver Manual 3.3.6. PO Panel Area Definition (Peel Off) This function is designed to define areas which will be prevented from printing (e.g. signature fields). The YMCK-PO looks like shown: Yellow Magenta Cyan Carbon (K) Peel Off (PO) Note: A special ribbon type is required to use this option.
  • Page 29 Prima 3 Driver Manual The peel off area is enabled by clicking the checkbox: Warning: Use of full PO area results in non-visible printout. In each case you need to define smaller areas (e.g. signature fields). After clicking on the PO area button the following window appears:...
  • Page 30 Prima 3 Driver Manual 3.3.6.1. Definition of areas Peel Off To create a new area: Click and draw a rectangle area while pressing and holding down the CTRL-key on the keyboard. To edit an area: Select an area you want to move or resize by clicking on the area itself or choose it from the list.
  • Page 31 Prima 3 Driver Manual Preview of defined sample K-Panel areas Tip: Keeping values after disabling gives you the flexibility to design the areas before you enable this setting.

  • Page 32: Uv Panel

    Prima 3 Driver Manual 3.4. UV Panel 3.4.1. Introduction The new generation of EDIsecure XID580ie and XID590ie printers supports using of YMCK - UV (ultra violet) ribbon as high level security feature. This feature contains the option to print layout objects with a special patch on the ribbon onto the card, which is invisible under normal daylight environment.
  • Page 33 3.4.2.1. Option 'Bitmap from file' This option allows to place static bitmap files on the UV plane. The bitmap must fullfil following conditions: 1. Graphic: Bitmap format 2. Size: 1036 x 664 Pixel with 300 dpi resolution 3. Color mode: 256 Grayscale For security reasons the bitmap can be stored locally as well on the network.
  • Page 34 Prima 3 Driver Manual As in all the other area definitions, the content once created can be used if enabled or stored for future use if disabled: 3.4.2.3. Option 'UV from second page' If an application is capable to print multipage documents (e.g. MS Word®), then the activated option 'UV from second page' will force (every) second page(s) of the document to be printed on the UV plane:...

  • Page 35: Security Area

    Prima 3 Driver Manual 3.4.3. Security Area The corner position of the printer´s unique identifier can be defined here:...

  • Page 36: Advanced

    Prima 3 Driver Manual 3.5. Advanced 3.5.1. Global Print Offset and K Plane Offset Global Print Offset: Here you can shift the offset of the layout in horizontal and vertical direction by changing the values; this influences the complete layout. K-plane Offset: The changing of the values for K-plane only influences the offset of the K-plane.

  • Page 37: Synchronization

    Prima 3 Driver Manual 3.5.3. Synchronization This is only required if the application controls the chip encoding. When encoding and printing batch jobs without the built-in Advanced Chip Encoding Framework, the option "Wait for card exit" must be checked: 3.5.4. Track Formats The track formats are shown for informational purpose.

  • Page 38: Card Output

    Prima 3 Driver Manual 3.5.5. Card Output By enabling the "Card Output" option, the user can force or override the default setting of the printer driver. Independent from speed or material usage settings, the Card Output options "Front up" or "Front down" will force the card orientation when leaving the printer. This option should be used only if an external lamination unit is attached to the printer.

  • Page 39: Sample Of Magnetic Stripe Encoding

    3.5.7. Sample of magnetic stripe Encoding Sending Track Information Magnetic track data is sent in the form of text strings from the application software to the printer driver, along with all of the other printable objects within your card design. For the printer driver to differentiate between magnetic track data and the rest of the printable objects, the magnetic track data strings must be uniquely "tagged"...

  • Page 40: Advanced Intelligent Printer Management (Aipm)

    Advanced Intelligent Printer Management (AIPM) 4.1. Introduction The "Advanced Intelligent Printer Management" was developed with a focus on giving the most power and flexibility to the user. All necessary controls and settings are stored centrally in the Dispatcher (DISP) application. The user has direct access to all setting parameters he needs. The Dispatcher is a part of the printer driver and appears in the program group under the XID5xx Printer folder or starts automatically when launching a print job.

  • Page 41: Printers

    4.2.1. Printers The printer line shows the printer’s status: If the printer is connected and detected by the Dispatcher and has no low level errors (e.g. 'No cards'), the printer’s related signs become active. The 'LED' to the right of the printers ID shows with several colors the related state: - Green Ready - Green flashing...

  • Page 42: Tools

    During the run time of DISP the card counter shows the Cards for print and Cards printed. Cards for print shows all jobs in the file list including copy prints. In special cases, e.g. if a cleaning procedure is needed, an info line at the bottom shows the related info message.
  • Page 43 Prima 3 Driver Manual Inside the Print Jobs list, the user can handle single jobs by right clicking with the mouse button as follows: - Delete (e.g. if unwanted after error recovery) - Suspense (e.g. job can wait) - Restart (e.g. after an error occurred) - Move to top (prioritization) Depending on the actual status of the print job, particular functions may not be available.

  • Page 44: Administration Center

    Administration Center The "Administration Center" is the central point for administrative management of hardware related settings, printer driver and LUT/password control. Based on the innovative "Plug-In" architecture, this framework allows you to implement administrative functions by copying new DLL files to the Administration Center directory; no modification of the driver is needed. All administrative functions like "Printer Settings", "Options"...

  • Page 45: Re-Transfer Settings

    5.1.1. Re-transfer settings Ribbon Type Counts per roll (1000, 750) Temperature -3 (Low) ..Standard + 2 (High) Speed (Front/Back) -10 (Slow) .. Standard .. +2 (Fast) 5.1.2. Bend remedy Temperature Off .. -5 (Low) .. Standard .. 0 (High) Speed -2 (Slow) ..

  • Page 46: Print Setting Transfers

    5.1.5. Print setting transfers Load from File An already set file can be loaded Save to File Actual settings can be saved to file From Printer Settings will be read from printer’s memory To Printer Settings will be downloaded and stored to the printers memory Test Print Starts a test print Card Material...

  • Page 47: Options

    5.2. Options With the "Options" it is possible to enable / disable following items: 5.2.1. General Options Start DISP with printers in paused mode If enabled, the next time DISP is started (either by closing or rebooting PC) the printer will stay in paused mode.

  • Page 48: Printer Driver Profiles And Printer Grouping Definition

    5.2.2. Printer Driver Profiles and Printer Grouping Definition The Printer Group Definition is a unique technique powered by Digital Identification Solutions to define several groups of "virtual" printers. If created, every Windows application can print to one virtual driver shown in the Windows printer folder without sending jobs individually. In addition, a single printer can be defined as a virtual printer for routing the jobs to specific printer.

  • Page 49: Creation Of Printer Groups

    Prima 3 Driver Manual 5.2.2.1. Creation of Printer Groups After clicking on "Add" in Printer Driver Profiles and Printer Grouping, the user needs to enter a new group name and the ID of the printer which will belong to this group. In the following window, the user can enter the following settings.
  • Page 50 Prima 3 Driver Manual The following two samples show how to enter the information: Sample A: As a result of this definition the printer appears in the list.
  • Page 51 Prima 3 Driver Manual Sample B: When checking the maximum number of available printers you will get the maximum performance: It is possible to add several groups including overlapping IDs, as shown in the sample two groups named: - "PrinterXID #2 to #4" with the IDs 2, 3 and 4 was added. - "XID ARF's Printer Farm"...

  • Page 52: Setting Up Printing Preferences And Managing Of Printer Driver Profiles

    5.2.2.2. Deleting of Printer Groups There are two different ways of deleting Printer Groups: by Dispatcher or by use of the standard procedure in the Windows printer folder. We strongly recommend using Dispatcher. To delete Printer Groups the following steps have to be done: Highlight a group by clicking the right mouse button and Click button "Delete Group"...
  • Page 53 Prima 3 Driver Manual By clicking on the "Printing Preferences ..." button the user can view and setup the printer settings out of the Dispatcher for the highlighted printer name as shown below: 5.2.3.2. Exporting of Printer Driver Profiles By clicking on the "Export ..." button, a save dialog will be opened as shown below: The printer profile will be saved for further use...
  • Page 54 Prima 3 Driver Manual 5.2.3.3. Importing of Printer Driver Profiles If the customer needs to import the printer profiles he can do this by clicking on the 'Import ...' button. The Windows open dialog will be opened as shown below:...

  • Page 55: Lut / Password

    Prima 3 Driver Manual 5.3. LUT / Password 5.3.1. Lookup Table Configuration Inside the Lookup Table Configuration the user has the possibility of using his own LUT tables. LUT tables contain the color control values, which can be used instead of the internal printer LUT. The Lookup Table contains the values to control the print density for every color separately.

  • Page 56: Driver Config

    Prima 3 Driver Manual 5.4. Driver Config This page allows setting, changing and removing the password of the Administration Center. When you click on "Reset" button, the following dialog appears. If a password has been set during installation, it can be changed here. To do so, retype the old password and type the new password twice to confirm.

  • Page 57: Advanced Chip Encoding Framework (Acef)

    Advanced Chip Encoding Framework (ACEF) Included in the printer driver is the Advanced Chip Encoding Framework, which is capable of handling all card encoding itself. The mechanism is independent from the application, allowing virtually any Windows based application to perform chip encoding. The main features will be described in detail in the following chapters.

  • Page 58: Plugin Architecture

    6.1. Plugin architecture As the printer driver does not do the encoding itself but loads an additional piece of software that know how to "talk" with a certain encoder hardware and chip card, it is not limited to chips and encoders that are currently present on the market.

  • Page 59: Software And Hardware Setup

    Prima 3 Driver Manual 6.2. Software and Hardware Setup 6.2.1. Plugin Info When a plugin is installed properly and appears in the list of Installed Plugins, clicking on it will select and activate it. The plugin is loaded and additional information of the plugin is displayed in the Plugin Info box as shown below: Encoder Position: This shows whether a plugin encodes contact or contactless chips (this determines the position...

  • Page 60: Port Assignment

    Prima 3 Driver Manual This prevents plugins from crashing the driver by attempting to use unsupported functions of a later driver release. Plugin version The plugin's version number is shown here. This is for support purposes to determine which version of the plugin is installed on the system. Unicode Some applications require to encode Unicode characters on the chips.
  • Page 61 Prima 3 Driver Manual This mechanism allows easy recognition of the port name of each single encoder device in a multiple printer (and encoder) environment by plugging them in one-by-one. Creating the link between encoder and printer ID When having identified the port name of an encoder that is connected to a specific printer, the link between both must be created so the driver knows on which port the encoding must be performed when printing on a certain printer ID.

  • Page 62: Format Templates

    6.2.3. Format Templates Some applications require different encodings, depending on the layout of the card, but use one chip type. Plugins can be developed to support multiple encoding styles, definitions, formats, and all in combination. In order to understand what "Format Templates" do, let's have a look at the following example. Important Keep in mind that there are several ways to achieve this, depending on the plugin and the requirement specification!!!

  • Page 63: Edit-Button

    Prima 3 Driver Manual Each layout must then contain a "reference" to each format template, along with the encoding data, and the plugin would be able to understand what, where and how needs to be encoded. For an example how this reference looks like, please refer to section 6.8, keyword "ft". Note that neither the contents nor the usage of "Format Templates"...

  • Page 64: Configuration (Global Settings And Test)

    Prima 3 Driver Manual 6.2.4. Configuration (Global Settings and Test) The most important part in the chip encoding setup is to test the communication with the encoding device and to test if the encoder can access, write to and read from the chip. Some encoders require even global settings like authentication keys or the transfer speed, which is common for COM ports.

  • Page 65: Application Setup

    Prima 3 Driver Manual 6.3. Application Setup The chip encoding features of the driver are application independent, i.e. the application does not need to be set-up for the specific encoder hardware of the encoding plugins. The entire encoder-specific configuration is done in the Plugin Manager, stored and handled outside the printing application, as well as the encoding process itself.

  • Page 66: Multi-Printer Encoding

    Special transformations for shading, blending, winding, squeezing, skewing, twisting, outlining and anything else do process the text "as graphic" and are therefore not suggested for the encoding string. The font, however, is not relevant for parsing, as long as if it is a standard Windows font. So to summarize all of the above: Important The encoding string must be on front page of the layout!

  • Page 67: Printing And Encoding Over Network

    6.5. Printing and encoding over network Multiple workstations on the network can print on a PC that has one or more printers attached locally and has shared the printers in Windows. Such a PC is called print server. On the print server, it is mandatory that a user is logged on, otherwise the dispatcher will not be able to process the jobs.

  • Page 68: Precoding

    6.7. Precoding Introduction A special preprocessing might be required by the application before encoding or printing the card, or both. In some cases, a serial number from a card needs to be processed and the card which has to be produced is selected by this serial number, i.e.

  • Page 69: Encoding String

    6.8. Encoding String In an encoding environment, there are many parameters that must be configured in order to the encoding to be performed correctly. We have seen above how to set-up the hardware, a way to configure the formatting and positioning of the data with sophisticated plugins, and now there's one thing left: The user data that actually needs to be encoded on the card.
  • Page 70 corresponding section of the application's handbook on how to set up a text field with a string that can hold both, fixed and variable data. There are three types of applications that: recognize placeholders and replace them inside the fixed text encoding string require a temporary field and a script to build the full encoding string cannot replace user data at all Usually applications belonging to the latter category will not be used at all for card production with...
  • Page 71 The following keywords in an encoding string are reserved by the driver and processed in a special way. Keyword Option Format mandatory Text optional Text optional Number optional optional Number Prima 3 Driver Manual Description plugin name This name must match with the one shown in the Installed Plugins list in Plugin Manager.

  • Page 72: Encoding String Examples

    6.8.1. Encoding string examples 1. Simple encoding string {pi="Contact" ft="Guest" ...encoding data... } Uses the plugin "Contact" and the format template "Guest" to encode the encoding data, then prints the card. 2. Multiple encoding strings {pi="Mifare" ft="All Access" so="2" ...encoding data... } {pi="Contact"...
  • Page 73 Prima 3 Driver Manual 4. Visual appearance of encoding strings This example shows how an encoding string does appear in the application window and does not appear on the printed card Encoding string in the layout Printed card...

  • Page 74: Troubleshooting And Known Limitations

    Troubleshooting and known limitations Print Errors As a result of the enhanced error recovery capability of the AIPM driver, the user can decide in case of an error to cancel, delete, recover, pause or re-print jobs. In case the error persists, mostly due to a hardware error, please write down the error message and contact the company from which you purchased the printer.

  • Page 75: Appendix A

    Prima 3 Driver Manual Appendix A Layout placement on card The printer driver uses a technology that allows you to quickly setup and adjust the document properties for correct layout placement on the printed card. This section describes the idea behind it and how to find the correct settings in six intuitive steps. For first time users, take the card template that was used for designing the layout.
  • Page 76 Step 1: One- or two-sided layout Check if the design is a one or two-sided layout, i.e. if the layout has only a front side or a front and back side. One sided layout: Front side of card Two sided layout: Front side of card Prima 3 Driver Manual Back side of card...

  • Page 77: Step 2: Landscape Or Portrait

    Prima 3 Driver Manual Step 2: Landscape or portrait Check if the design is a landscape or a portrait design. Landscape Select Portrait Select...
  • Page 78 Prima 3 Driver Manual Step 3: Visible encoding features, Magnetic Stripe or Contact Chip If the card is not blank, it is important to select the features so the driver knows in which order and the sides must be printed. Magnetic stripe card Select Contact chip card...
  • Page 79 Step 4: Flip axis The driver determines the rotation of the layout sides from the flip axis of the card, which is the axis around which the card can be flipped and the layout stays in the correct orientation, not upside- down.
  • Page 80 Step 5: Rotation of the card For non-blank cards, the layout design must cope with either the contact chip or the magnetic stripe or both on each side of the card. In the layout, these areas are usually left blank and the Rotation-button allows the print to match the layout, i.e.
  • Page 81 Step 6: Exchange the card sides As seen in the last step, for non-blank cards, the position of the magnetic stripe or contact chip or both must be adjusted to fit the layout. While the Rotation-button rotated the card on both sides, the Exchange-button allows to swap the front and back sides if the magnetic stripe or the chip are shown at the wrong side of the layout.
  • Page 82 Ultra Electronics Card Systems Ultra Electronics Card Systems Tel: Toll Free: Fax: Fax: email: email: Tel:...

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