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2-10 Using the printer

User’s Guide for Select™ Platinum Series™ Printers

Making cards

This section describes several ways to make cards using the Select printer.

• Usually, cards are sent from a card creation application such as Datacard’s ID

Works™ which captures, organizes, and formats the information on the card. A

card creation application is special software that handles the types of information

used on cards. See “Use a card creation application” for the steps to follow.

• If you do not have a card creation application, you can use another PC application

to format the information to print on cards. If you are encoding magnetic stripe

data, be sure to use an application in which you can save the result and edit it

again, such as Windows WordPad™ or Word. See “Print from a PC application”

for the steps to follow.

With any application, test your card design to verify the results.

Use a card creation application

1 Follow the instructions for the card creation application to capture, format, and

save the data for the card.

2 In the card creation application, send cards to the printer (usually, use the Print

button).

The printer driver receives data for each card, prepares the card for printing, and

sends each card to the printer in the order received. The printer driver keeps

cards in a queue if the printer is busy. For a directly networked printer, the print

server manages jobs from any PCs that send jobs to the printer.

Developers can write card creation applications using the SmartDriver™ Software

Developer’s Kit. This kit can be found on the SmartDriver CD-ROM or

downloaded from www.datacard.com.

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Print from a PC application

1 In the application, choose the SmartDriver as the current printer.

The default name for the Select printer, when it is installed, is SmartDriver.

Your printer might have a different name than SmartDriver.

2 Choose the printer settings that correspond to the cards to print. See “Working

with Properties and other driver dialog boxes” on page 3-1 for more information.

Settings might include the following:

– Enable two-sided printing if you plan to print the front and back of the

card.The printer must have a duplex module to print on both sides of the card.

– Set the margins for the area to print on the card. A setting of Edge-to-Edge is

the same as a margin of 0.

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