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Page 1: User Manual
HiTi Card Printer CardDésirée CS & DB Maker User Manual V.2007.10 www.hi-ti.com... -
Page 2: Table Of Contents
Table of Contents Chapter 1 Software Interface --------------------------------------------------------------4 1.1 Main Interface --------------------------------------------------------------------------4 1.2 Menu Bar --------------------------------------------------------------------------------4 1.3 Select Printer Model & Card Type ---------------------------------------------------6 1.4 Tool Bar ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------8 1.5 ID Photo Insertion Area ---------------------------------------------------------------8 1.6 Layer Archive ---------------------------------------------------------------------------9 1.7 Preview & Edit Area -------------------------------------------------------------------9 Chapter 2 Card Editing----------------------------------------------------------------------10 2.1 Add Colored Text ----------------------------------------------------------------------10... - Page 3 4.1 Database Function Introduction-------------------------------------------------------26 4.2 How to connect to an existing database file? ---------------------------------------27 4.3 How to search / query certain data into your database? --------------------------40 4.4 How to build up a “print information database”? --------------------------------- 45 4.5 About “Append Print Info.” Function------------------------------------------------50 4.6 Dynamic Mode--------------------------------------------------------------------------52 Chapter 5 DB Maker Interface-------------------------------------------------------------53 5.1 Main Interface--------------------------------------------------------------53...
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Page 4: Chapter 1 Software Interface
1.1 Main Interface Tool Bar Frame Layer 1.2 Menu bar 1) File The “File” menu option includes: Open (open a saved template) Close (close the template) Save (save template) Save As (save as a new template) Exit (exit CardDésirée CS) ____________________________________________________________________ Chapter 1 Software Interface Tool Bar... - Page 5 2) Edit The “Edit” menu includes: Copy Duplicate Paste Delete Push layer to top Push layer to bottom Bring Forward Send Backward Layer positioning (Define the position and the layer) Unit : pixel or 1/10mm x: Define horizontal position y: Define vertical position Width: Define the width of a layer Height: Define the height of a layer Alignment : There are 9 buttons for the alignment : Top left ,Top Center, Top...
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Page 6: Select Printer Model & Card Type
Dynamic Mode (See Chapter 4.5) Layer Mapping (map the data source of each layer) 7) Help “Help＂ file & “About CardDésirée CS＂ 1.3 Select Printer Model, Card Type & Orientation Select Card Printer Model, Card Type 1) Select printer ____________________________________________________________________... - Page 7 CardDésirée CS supports HiTi CS-300, HiTi CS310, HiTi CS320, HiTi 640DL- Amphi, HiTi Amphi II [Warning!!]: Please choose the right printer before you edit. Due to the difference in resolution, the transfer of formats between two models would not be consistent.
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Page 8: Tool Bar
1.4 Commonly used toolbar The tool options include: Add Color Text Add ID frame Add image Import background Import bar code Add Resin Text Add Line Add Figure Add e-frame Open “*.mds” Files Add 2D Barcode 1.5 ID Photo Insertion Area ____________________________________________________________________ www.hi-ti.com... -
Page 9: Layer Archive
1.6 Layer Archive 1.7 Preview & Edit areas Landscape Portrait ____________________________________________________________________ www.hi-ti.com... -
Page 10: Chapter 2 Card Editing
2.1 Add Color Text Click , a color text layer will immediately be created in the edit area. A user may make the following adjustments: Type-in text: A user may type the text content in this area Alignment: top-left, top-center, top-right, center-left, center-center, center-right, down-left, down-center, down-right Font: font type, size, interval, bold, italic, underline, vertical, right to left Font Color:... -
Page 11: Add Id Frame
Advanced text setting: Art word Non Text Art Straight 1~6 Concave Bulge Up-Arc 1,2 Down-Arc1,2 Up-Arch Up-Arch Inner Shrink Expansion Wave 1~6 2.2 Add ID frame 1) Click , to create an ID frame and click images. ____________________________________________________________________ Shadow Non Shadow Left-Top Left-Down Right-Top... - Page 12 1. Loading images from files: Directly loading ID images from files. 2. Loading images from webcam: Loading ID images captured by a webcam. Capture Device : The webcam you are using Filter : The setting for a webcam Live Video Preview : The live video is shown in this area. Captured Bitmap : The image captured by a webcam is shown in this area Captured Directory : Select the destination to save the...
- Page 13 Acquire : Click Acquire to select a device in order to connect with your computer. After selecting a device, there are four options shown as follows. A:Capture: Click to capture an picture. B: Source: Device setting. C: Format: Images format setting. D: Exit: Close this section.
- Page 14 3) Adjust the orientation of the ID photo 4) Click to insert the ID photo into the ID frame in the edit area after the size and the location adjustment of the ID photo have been finished. However, if you are not connected to a database file, please save the adjustment via Menu Bar→File→Save.
- Page 15 Save post-processing image Reload original photo Confirm image existence. description. ※ When you click “Confirm image existence”, the computer will examine the images and the data you have marked in the “Printing Information database”. If an image does not exist in the path, a dialogue box will be shown as the right figure.
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Page 16: Import Background
2.3 Import background 1) Click to display the file selection dialogue box. Choose a background picture 2) Property settings Advanced Settings: Choose a different ribbon type to print. Using Resin K ribbon means to make use of the K layer of YMCKO ribbon to print the background in a black and white image. -
Page 17: Import Bar Code
2.4 Import bar code Click to create a bar code. Adjustment properties: 2.5 Add Resin Text Click to create a resin text layer immediately in the edit area. The user may make the following adjustments: Type-in text: The user may enter the text in this area. Alignment: top-left, top-center, top-right, center-left, center-center, center-right, down-left, down-center, down-right. -
Page 18: Open Existing Template
Background color: 2.6 Add Line and Figure A. Add Line Click , a diagonal line will appear in the edit area. Click mouse button to display the option list as shown. B. Add Figure Click and a solid figure will appear in the edit area. Click hand mouse button to display the options list as shown. -
Page 19: Open A "*.Mds" File
2.8 Open a “*.mds” file Click to display the template file selection dialog. Choose an existing template file which you will use. ("*.mds " is CardDésirée CS template format). The template you open will be shown immediately in the editing area for your edition. -
Page 20: Layer Archive Printing Card
2.10 Layer Archive 1) All layers are shown in the archive (They may include Color Text, Resin Text, Background, Barcode and perhaps even an ID frame photo) , you can focus on one of them and click the right button of the mouse to adjust it: 2) In the editing area, you can focus the layer by clicking the mouse button. -
Page 21: Printing Card
2.11 Printing card After the editing is finished, click A: Select printer: Hiti CS-300/310/320, 640DL-Amphi or Amphi II for your options. ____________________________________________________________________ to print the cards. -21- www.hi-ti.com... - Page 22 B: Ribbon options: YMCKO, YMCKOK, YMCKO, K or KO C: Lamination: This function is available for lamination module only. There are four options: No Lamination, Front Side, Back Side, Dual Side. D: Printing Setting: Print current job or selected job. E: Rotation setting: You could rotate the image 180 degrees while printing.
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Page 23: Chapter 3 Encoding Functions
Chapter 3 Encoding Functions 3.1 Contact Smart Card Encoding Function You can apply encoding functions to a 6-pin Smart Chip card, an 8-pin Smart card, and a Chip Magnetic Card. After you select “Contact Smart Card”, there will be a blank in the editing area of the front side shown as follows. 1. -
Page 24: Magnetic Card Encoding Function
2. Arguments: Parameters for encoding. 3. Data to Encode: Data Source for encoding. You can input encoding data directly. Or you can select Counter Source, Date/Time Source, Concatenation Source or ODBC Source as your data source. Please refer to Chapter 4 for the details of the properties setting. □... -
Page 25: Chip Magnetic Card Encoding Function
Select tracks you would like to encode and decide the data source: No Mapping: Input data directly； Counter Source, Date/Time Source, Concatenation Source or ODBC Source as your data source. Please refer to Chapter 4 for the details of the properties setting. 3.3 Chip Magnetic Card Encoding Function Please review 3.1 and 3.2 for Chip encoding and Magnetic encoding, respectively for a Chip Magnetic Card. -
Page 26: Chapter 4 Database
“Database” function in CardDésirée CS. When you click on the “print” icon, HiTi CS-300 will automatically print the data item by item. Remark: ODBC is the connecting interface between CardD ※... -
Page 27: How To Connect To An Existing Database File
4.2 How to connect to an existing database file? Open the template 1. Run [CardDésirée CS] 2. Please refer to the second chapter to make a template. If you already have a template, then please open it through [file] → [open]. 3. - Page 28 Connect to a database for the first time A user can use Access (*.mdb) or Excel (*.xls) to edit a file as a database respectively. The following example will display how to save an Excel file as a database. 1. After entering all the data, please block all of the contents, which you need as a table: 2.
- Page 29 3. Please enter the name of this table and press “OK”. The name of this table will be on the list for your option during the process when you connect the database. 4. Please save this file before you close Excel. After completing the above procedure, please follow this process to connect the database shown as follows.
- Page 30 If you haven’t built up a data source, please click on the [Add] button after you enter [ODBC Administrator] to establish a data source. Select a driver for the data source. (It should be a “*.mdb＂ or a “*.xls” file in general).
- Page 31 Browse and select a database, and then press OK. Sampled by an Access file : The data source, which you have just added would be displayed in the list. Sampled by an Access file : After clicking on [OK], it will return to the “Available Data Sources” dialogue box, click on [Refresh] and the just-added data source would appear in the list.
- Page 32 Select the target data source and click on [Next]. Sampled by an Access file : Select a target table. When you have more than one table in a database file, you can assign the target one in this dialogue box, and then click on [Finish]. Sampled by an Access file : 10.
- Page 33 Disconnect the Database. Record: Browse each data. Record list: Review the data list.※Remark. Layer Mapping: To assign the layers in the template with the database. ※Remark: Please refer to Section 4.4: How to build up a “print information database” in Chapter 4. Also, please refer to the following sections for information regarding [Record], [Record list], and the [Layer Mapping] function.
- Page 34 How to perform “Layer Mapping”? After choosing [Layer Mapping], the layer name and its mapping status will be displayed in the source data dialogue. If you have not made any settings, it will display “No Mapping” in the “Source” column. Choose the target Layer.
- Page 35 No mapping: No need to set any source for the target layer. Event Source: To assign an event source to the layer. Need to work with HiTi Event Desiree software. Please contact HiTi FAE. Webcam Source: To assign a webcam source to the layer. WIA Source: To assign a WIA source to the layer.
- Page 36 After you finish the settings of the data source, press [Apply]. After setting all the layers, the source column will show all the results. Press the [OK] button to complete the layer mapping. ____________________________________________________________________ www.hi-ti.com -36-...
- Page 37 Data source properties introduction. Counter Source Function: To assign a counter source to the layer. Date/Time Source Function: To assign a date/time source to the layer. ____________________________________________________________________ www.hi-ti.com 1. Preview: To preview the outcome. 2. No. of fixed digits: To set the number digits for the counter.
- Page 38 Concatenation Source Function: To assign a date/time source to the layer. ODBC Source Function: To assign an ODBC source to the layer. ____________________________________________________________________ www.hi-ti.com 1. Preview: To preview the result. 2. Prefix: To set the fixed precedent digits. 3. Source 1: Choose counter or date or time or concatenation as the first source.
- Page 39 To link a layer with the database: Once you select Webcam Source, WIA Source, or TWAIN Source as your ID image source, a dialogue will pop up to ask you to capture images from your device while printing. Please refer to Chapter 2 section 2.2 for the further details.
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Page 40: How To Search / Query Certain Data Into Your Database
4.3 How to search / query certain data in your database? First, you need to open a template and connect to the database. Through [File] → [Open] to open a template. Then, you could preview certain data by [Record list] or by using the buttons in the main menu. - Page 41 Click on the [Search] button, and the search dialogue will pop up. Select a field to search: choose the target column you want to search. Search Data: Input the condition of the search. Match whole word only: The search should match with the exact word type in the blank of “Search data”.
- Page 42 At the top left corner of the search dialogue box, it will display the position of the target data in the database. shows that the target data is the fourth among all sixteen entries. The found target data would be underlined in a different color in the data list.
- Page 43 After entering these conditions and pressing [OK], the data list will display the results shown as follows: Data (1/3) shows that total 3 data match your conditions and that the target data is the first data. ※ You can keep the latest conditions for the [Query], so that when you open this template another time, you can directly acquire [Query] results from the database through these previously entered conditions.
- Page 44 Preview and query by using the tool bar of the main menu Preview option: Unmark the flag, you can preview all the data in the “Printing Information” database; however, after marking the flag, you can preview only the data which you marked in the “Printing Information”...
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Page 45: How To Build Up A "Print Information Database
4.4 Build up a “Printing Information” database What is a “Print Information Database”? After a user processes ID images, these setting parameters, such as size, location and color properties, will be added into “Print Information”. In addition, “Print Information” displays which data will be printed; printed quantities of each data and when data were printed. - Page 46 The area in grey color on the left indicates that the Print Information Database has not been created or opened. Before you open the Print Information Database, all the adjustments for the ID photo; including size, location and color properties, can not be recorded. If you have created a Print Information Database, please press [Print Info.] to open your Print Information Database (Please refer to the next section: Print Information Database connection / open in this chapter).
- Page 47 4. The computer system will ask you to select a field as an index key in order to connect to the original database. Please select one field involving different data without repeating it as an index key. 5. Then there would be a warning dialogue clarifying “The field can be Null”, please press “OK”...
- Page 48 [Description]: 1. Print? : You can select which data you are interested in printing or previewing. Printed: Printed quantities for each data. Print Time: The latest printing time of each data. Total Prints: The total print quantities of each data. Select All: You can use this function to check or uncheck all the data.
- Page 49 Print Information Database connection / open: After you create a Print Information Database, this database will be saved in your computer. Please open a Print Information Database using the following procedures. 1. Please select Database→ Record list to open a database list. 2.
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Page 50: About "Append Print Info." Function
4.5About “Append Print Info.” Function What is “Append Print Info.”? Compared with an independent “Print Information Database” mentioned above, to “Append print info.” means to append the print information to the users own database. In other words, this function combined the users’ database and print information into one *.mdb file rather than save the print information as another *.mdb file. - Page 51 3. After you activate the “Append Print Info.” function, the “Pint Info.” function which is at the left down side of the same page would be disabled. That means you either could choose to append the print information to the same database or save as another database file.
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Page 52: Dynamic Mode
4.6Dynamic Mode What is Dynamic Mode? For the ease of instant card issuing cases, “Dynamic Mode” provides users to add new records into the database and preview the layout in the same window page simultaneously. Users could type the information in the established columns and save into the database. -
Page 53: Chapter 5 Db Maker Interface
Chapter 5 DB Maker Interface 5.1 Main Interface Menu Bar The Edit Region Images Preview Tool Bar 5.2 Menu Bar 1) File The “File” menu option includes: New (create a new database file) Open (open an existing database file) Close (close a database file) Save (save a database file) Save As (save as a new database file) Exit (exit DBMaker) - Page 54 2) Edit: The “Edit” menu includes: Copy Paste Find *For the “Find” function, please enter the characters in the blank area [Find what], select the Field, and decide the Direction – Up or Down for your search. Also you can mark □Match whole field to search the matching characters. 3) Field The “Field”...
- Page 55 5) Window The “Window” menu includes: Cascade (Showing more than one table by the overlapping format as follows.) Tile (Showing more than one table at the same time as follows.) 6) Help The “Help” menu includes: “Help＂file & “About DB Maker” -55-...
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Page 56: Tool Bar
5.3 Tool Bar Create a new database file Open an existing database file Copy Paste Help -56-... -
Page 57: Chapter 6 Edit The Database With Db Maker
Chapter 6 Edit the Database by DB Maker 6.1 Create a New Database File 1) Menu Bar File New, or press 2) Enter the name of the new database file, and press [Save] to create a new database file. (Remark: If you input an existing file name or select an existence database file, the original content in this the existing file will be replaced.) 3) The dialogue shows the path of the new database. - Page 58 4) Enter the name of the new table. 5) Now you can select A. Auto Create Based on Existing Template or B. manual Creation. A. Auto Create Based on Existing Template It means DB Maker will create a new database the fields of which are based on the layers of an existing ‘*.mds’...
- Page 59 1. Press [Browse] for the Template Path. 2. Select a ‘*.mds’ template and press [Open]. 3. Press [Finish] -59-...
- Page 60 4. The fields of this new database file will be based on the layers of the template which you selected. The layers of the template in CardDésirée CS 5. Enter your data into this table. The process is completed. B. Manual Create 1.
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Page 61: Open An Existing Database File
3. After setting the names of all the necessary fields you need, press [Finish] to complete this process. 4. Now you can enter your data into this database file. 6.2 Open an Existing Database File The default format of database files for DB Maker is the ‘*.mdb’ format. You can open existing database files, Menu Bar: File Open or open files from Tool Bar:... - Page 62 1) Modify Field Please start from Menu Bar: Field Modify Field. A dialogue box will pop up, and you can press [New] to add a new field or press [Delete] to delete a field. Also, you can directly right-click the button of the mouse on the field you would like to modify and you will have the following options: Descent Sort, Ascent Sort, Delete Field, Cut, Copy, Paste, and Primary Key setting.
- Page 63 Delete Record: When you select [Delete Record], the whole line, which is indicated by the arrow, will be deleted. -63-...
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Page 64: Settings For Images Preview
6.4 Settings for Images Preview 1. First, you need to save all the images files, which you need in the same folder (The user can browse the folder path or directly input the path of the folder in the blank of [File Folder] shown as A in the following illustration). Type all the file names sequentially into a certain field of the database (shown as B in the following illustration).