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Seaory S20R Desktop Single-sided Card Printer 1. Product features Main function A. Rewrite card printing B. Front-end or Back-end manual feeding C. Card holding, timeout automatic recovery D. Card feeding or exit mouth can be flexible change E. :Optional Modules ①...
Seaory S20R Desktop Single-sided Card Printer Roof Error light Status indicator lamp LCM screen Switch of upper cover Air vent Control panel Main function description: (1) Switch of upper cover: Lift this switch to open the cover. (2) Control panel buttons: Query and set card printer parameters.
Seaory S20R Desktop Single-sided Card Printer Back-end Power switch Card exit mouth Interface: USB Power port Main function description: (1). USB Interface: USB-B type interface, connect directly to PC side. (2). Power port: DC24-25.5V 2.7A. (3). Power switch: connect or disconnect power.
Seaory S20R Desktop Single-sided Card Printer 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. Bottom Production bar code Bottom cover Card printer bar code Main function description:...
Seaory S20R Desktop Single-sided Card Printer Internal structures Main function description: A Air fan: absorb and release the print head’s heat when it works. B Print head: need regular cleaning. C Ribbon cartridge: accessory to install ribbon. D Cleaning roller: sticky card surface dust, improve the printing effect.
Seaory S20R Desktop Single-sided Card Printer 4. Accessories included Open-case inspection Accessories box S20 card printer PE foam Accessories list Power adapter Cleaning stick Power cable USB cable Cleaning roller Cleaning card Warranty card 5pcs Main function description: (1) Power adapter: convert DC voltage.
Step 2: The power adapter DC output connected to the card printer power interface, and the power line AC input connected to the mains socket. Power adapter Main socket Card printer To ensure the card printer work stably, please use Seaory original power adapter. Excellent quality, Perfect service www.seaory.com 9 / 40...
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Seaory S20R Desktop Single-sided Card Printer 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. USB-A interface (round type) USB-B interface(square type) Excellent quality, Perfect service www.seaory.com...
Seaory S20R Desktop Single-sided Card Printer 6. Driver installation Operation system Support Windows XP/7/8/10, Windows Server 2003/2008/2012/2016,Linux, Android Notice before installation ( 1 ) Card printer driver can be download from accessories box’s CD or official website :www.seaoryprinter.com. (2)Some antivirus applications will stop the driver installation, so please close all antivirus applications before installation.
Seaory S20R Desktop Single-sided Card Printer 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 S20R Desktop Single-sided Card Printer Step 4: Please select always trust software from “Shenzhen Seaory Technology Co., Ltd. ” in the pop-up windows, then click the “Install” button. Step 5: Please click the “Finish” button as show in the below picture, then the driver has been installed.
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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 S20R was installed completely. Excellent quality, Perfect service www.seaory.com...
Seaory S20R Desktop Single-sided Card Printer 7. Driver setting Printing preferences Put your mouse on the selected “Seaory S20R printer”, and click the right button, from the printer menu, select “Printing preferences”. Printing preferences page Excellent quality, Perfect service www.seaory.com...
Seaory S20R Desktop Single-sided Card Printer Print mode setting Erase first: Default not selected. if selected means the printed information on erasable card will be erase first before printing. Printing orientation setting Portrait or landscape. Default selected landscape orientation. Excellent quality, Perfect service www.seaory.com...
“Print Option” setting page as below. Feeding card mode setting Put your mouse on the selected “Seaory S20R printer”, and click the right button, from the printer menu, select “Printing preferences”. Defaulted: Manual feeding card piece by piece from front end manual feed slot.
Seaory S20R Desktop Single-sided Card Printer Eject card setting Put your mouse on the selected “Seaory S20R printer”, and click the right button, from the printer menu, select “Printing preferences”. Defaulted: Card moving out from “Back end manual feed slot “after finished printing.
Seaory S20R Desktop Single-sided Card Printer Advanced card in and card out options setting Default setting as below: It can adjust according to the actual application requirements. Excellent quality, Perfect service www.seaory.com 19 / 40...
Seaory S20R Desktop Single-sided Card Printer Print area setting Default print area is full page printing. ⚫ Function: print area settings for contact chip cards, magnetic stripe cards and printing cards. Need to prevent printing on card’s important medium (like coil or magnetic stripe) and print layout.
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Seaory S20R Desktop Single-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 S20R Desktop Single-sided Card Printer Magnetic encoding setting Function: for any software to edit the text between the filter characters, when printing, the printer encoding the same text. Track 1 encoding data: ABCD2233290000001 Track 2 encoding data: 00201901553118 Track 3 encoding data: 201144662224855 ”~1”...
Seaory S20R Desktop Single-sided Card Printer Heating energy setting 7.10 When the printing color is relatively light or erasing not so clean, it’s necessary to increase the heating energy value. When the printing color is dark, the heating energy value need to decrease.
Seaory S20R Desktop Single-sided Card Printer Tool setting 7.11 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 S20R Desktop Single-sided Card Printer Position calibrate 7.12 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 S20R Desktop Single-sided Card Printer Cleaning tool 7.13 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 S20R Desktop Single-sided Card Printer Magnetic stripe tool 7.14 The main function is to read and write magnetic strip card. ⚫ Encode tracks: magnetic stripe card data write test. ⚫ Read tracks: magnetic stripe card data reading test. ⚫ Eject card: card move out to output hopper.
Seaory S20R Desktop Single-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...
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Seaory S20R Desktop Single-sided Card Printer How to feed the card: Card feeding from front-end feeding/exit mouth is default chosen. Manual feeding card piece by piece from Back-end card feeding/exit mouth is optional. You can setting prefer card feeding mouth at “Printing preferences” like below picture.
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 S20R Desktop Single-sided Card Printer (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. Cleaning card Step 2: When Card printer shows “Ready”, press “OK” one time, then press “>” two times.
Seaory S20R Desktop Single-sided Card Printer Step 4: Open the upper cover, press “OK” button. Then close the upper cover. Step 5: Then card printer will start to cleaning. Step 6: The cleaning card will be exit from card exit mouth after finished cleaning.
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Seaory S20R Desktop Single-sided Card Printer Cleaning print head steps: Step 1: Take out cleaning stick from accessories box. Cleaning stick Step 2: Turn off the card printer, open the upper cover and find the print head show in below picture.
Seaory S20R Desktop Single-sided Card Printer 10. Replace print head In the long-term use of printer, when the expiration of lifespan or no regular cleaning or maintenance or artificial damage, the printing will appear broken needle, blank vertical stripes etc. Then you need to replace the print head.
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Seaory S20R Desktop Single-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 S20R Desktop Single-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 S20R Desktop Single-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 S20R Desktop Single-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 S20R Desktop Single-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 S20R Desktop Single-sided Card Printer 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 ⚫ Check whether the ribbon is proper installed ⚫ Check whether the cleaning roller or print head is not clean ⚫...
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