Using The Driver - DataCard SD260 Installation And User Manual

• When the printer and PC are connected using a USB cable, the printer and PC
automatically set up a local network. The printer has an IP address, which can
be used to view the Printer Manager. (See
Each time another card printer is connected to the PC, the local network is
updated to include the new printer. For best results, do not connect another
printer while using Printer Manager.
• Applications can also be customized to communicate with the printer
through the driver. If the application you use is customized, follow
instructions in the application.
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• The printer can have many PCs connected to it.
• Each PC can have up to 4 printers connected using USB cables.
• Each PC can be connected to many printers over the network.
• Each printer has a separate instance of the driver.
• Each printer needs to have a different name. The driver takes care of this
requirement.

Using the driver

The XPS Card Printer Driver provides the Windows dialogs for Printing
Preferences for setting the page or card design, and Printer Properties to manage
the printer in the Windows environment.
Using settings in Printing Preferences, you can:
• Adjust the colors printed (see
• Change card design settings (see
• Send cards with only mag stripe data for encoding (see
Stripe without
• Print on both sides of the card (see
• Rotate the card (see
• Set the print area (see
• Set the number of copies of the same card design (see
Copy of a
• Enable bar code detection (see
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