Card Initialization - Isgus Perfect 2040 Operating Manual

Card Initialization

Your ISGUS time cards are bar-coded with consecutive numbers, from 0 to 999,999.
It is through this bar-code that the time recorder identifies which time card it is
printing on and how to calculate the time worked for that card.
If you have several PERFECT's in your workplace, you must ensure that employee's
do not use their time cards with more than one time recorder. Obviously, the data
base of one PERFECT 2040 will not include any information from punches made on
another PERFECT 2040. Consequently, if a time card is used on more than one
clock, the totals will be all wrong and the printing on the time card will be mixed-up.
To prevent this, the "Initialize Cards" function allows the user to assign a distinct
series of consecutive card numbers to each PERFECT time recorder.
In the default setting this function is disabled, allowing any time card to be accepted
by the time recorder. When you program card initialization, only card numbers within
the series of numbers that you program, will be accepted by that time recorder.
Hint
If card initialization is programmed after the time recorder has
already been used, all cards previously in the time recorder's
memory will still be retained even though they may be outside of
the initialized time card number range.
Therefore we recommend to enable the function "Initialize cards"
immediately at the first starting. Before this no punching with a
time card should be carried out.
If you wish to delete those existing cards, you must use the
"Card Close Out" function.
Factory default setting:
Proceeding
4-68 Getting Started
® function deactivated
Chapter 4
= Activate the function
Or:
Switch to the next parameter
with "S".