PRINTING A SAMPLE CARD. Zebra P420, Eltron Card Printer

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RINTING A SAMPLE CARD

Printing with the P420 Printer requires the Windows Printer Driver, your card design/issuing Windows software or printer command level programming through the printer interface.

The P420 Card Printer can be used with any Windows 95/98/ME/XP/Win 2000,

Windows NT 4.0 software application program, using the drivers provided on CD with the printer.

This section contains information on the printing of a dual-sided card in color (using the 6-Panel color ribbon YMCKOK) and the Windows Printer Driver.

BEFORE installing updated printer driver versions, always delete the existing printer driver version from your computer.

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To install the P420 Printer Driver automatically on all

Operating systems, use the install wizard.

The wizard will:

- Automatically launch when the driver CD is inserted.

- Check to see which operating system you are using

- Delete previous versions of the driver and clean up any necessary Reistry entries.

- You must select “Remove” from he install options to remove any previous driver versions.

- Shut down of PC if necessary.

- Install the new driver files and Registry entries to their correct locations.

- Shutdown of PC is not required, but it is advised.

The install Wizard will walk you through the appropriate steps.

Do not power the printer with USB attached.

The driver will prompt you for USB installation

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Set Printer Driver Options:

To open the P420 Printer screen, right mouse click on your driver icon and select

Properties.

Change the options as follows:

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On the Device Settings tab the magnetic encoder feature is automatically enabled. If you need to change ettings for a Magnetic Encoder, select Encoder settings button.

2• On the General tab select card orientation:

Landscape or portrait - Select “Landscape”.

(in NT, this is located under Document Defaults when you right mouse click from your driver icon. In Windows 2000 and XP, it is located under Print preferences.)

3• In the Ribbon section, the ribbon type is automatically detected and enabled for you.

3a• You can click on “ribbon Info” and see how many panels are left.

4• In the same tab, go to Black Panel area and select Text Only. This option allows the text printing using the Black Resin Panel from the Color Ribbon.

5• Close the Zebra P420 Printer screen.

Now that you have loaded media and set up the printer driver, the P420 Printer is ready to print.

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Printing a sample card:

Follow the steps to print your first card

- Go to the Microsoft Word Software.

- If the printer was not selected as the default printer, go to the File menu and Select

Printer and choose Zebra P420 Card Printer in the printer names list. Then Close the print dialog box.

- Come back to File menu and choose Page Setup.

- Select Paper Size tab and in Paper Size choose Card. Then select the orientation:

"landscape".

- Go to Margins tab, put the Top, Bottom, Left and Right margins with O values.

- Press OK to close Page Setup window.

- The card appears on the screen.

- Design a card with 2 sides as follow:

Front Side

Back Side

- Once you are ready to print, go to File and point Print

- The printer will feed in a card and start printing ( the data download time will vary depending on the complexity of the card design and the processing speed of your computer).

- Once the printing job is achieved the card is ejected from the printer.