How To Use Print Blocking Escapes; About Printing Areas - Polaroid 539957-020 Rev. A User Manual

How to Use Print Blocking Escapes

TheXPS Card Printer Driver provides two methods to prevent printing and
topcoat on specific areas of the card. See
more information.
By default, the entire side of the card is printed. If your cards include a magnetic
stripe, a smart card chip, or other area, do not print or apply topcoat to the area.
You might have other areas, such as a signature panel or hologram, to prevent
printing and topcoat.
For magnetic stripe and smart card areas, see
custom areas which you define, use this topic.
The XPS Card Printer Driver recognizes escape statements to define print areas.
Escape statements are specific sequences of characters that mark data with a
special purpose. Areas defined using escapes override driver settings, unless no
area is defined. The driver provides the following types of escape statements:
• Block print
• Add topcoat
• Remove topcoat

About Printing Areas

Using driver settings, you can define one non-printing area per side of the card. If
the card has more than one area on a side, define both non-printing areas using
escapes. An escape statement applies to the side of the card where in appears in
the document.
The syntax or structure of each escape statement is ~XX%n1n2n3n4?
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"Printing and Non-Printing Areas"
"How to Set the Print
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Area". For
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