DataCard Datacard SP35, Installation Manual

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SP Series Install e-Guide
Install the Smart Driver™ printer pool
1 Begin with Windows running and all printers installed.
2 Start the installation program by doing one of the following:
— Insert the Smart Driver™ CD-ROM. When the dialog box appears, click “Install the Printer”.
— Double-click the SD-2K-XP-n_n.exe file to extract downloaded driver files and start the installation program
(the n_n represents the version of the driver, such as 7_0).
3 On the dialog box, click “Install the Printer.”
4 Choose “Driver Printer Pool” from the list and click Next.
5 Respond to the Microsoft dialog box to complete installation:
— For Windows XP, click Continue Anyway on the Windows Logo testing message.
— For Windows 2000, click Yes on the Digital Signature Not Found message.
6 The installation program runs to install the printer pool.
Use a printer pool
Begin with the PC powered on and the driver and printer pool installed.
Tips for success
• To use the printer pool effectively, each card must be sent from the application as a separate job. Some
applications, such as Datacard® ID Works, send each card in a batch as a separate job, while others send the
batch as one job. Test the application you use to determine the best way to send multiple cards to the printer
pool.
• If you do not want one or more printers to print cards as part of the pool, power off that printer. The printer pool
will identify a printer as available even when the printer status is Suspended or Not Responding if the printer is
powered on. If you need to use a printer separately from the printer pool, install it on another PC or contact your
service provider for assistance.
• Some applications track card completion status, and this data is available for cards sent to the printer pool. The
application can query the printer pool and obtain status for all cards processed through the pool. Card
completion status does not indicate which printer actually printed the job.
• In the Printing Preferences dialog box for the printer pool, select SP35, SP55, or SP75 as the printer type.
• For magnetic stripe encoding, use the same coercivity and magnetic stripe format values for all printers and the
printer pool. (If you select “Use printer settings,” make sure the settings in the printers are the same; use the
Printer Diagnostics utility to view magnetic stripe values if needed.)
To use a printer pool:
1 In the application used to print cards, select the name assigned to the printer pool when it was installed.
2 Make sure that all printers you want to receive card data and print cards have the same type of supplies loaded
and the same settings.
— For example, to print color and encode magnetic stripe, load YMCKT ribbon in the printer and use high-
coercivity magnetic stripe cards. Each printer identifies the ribbon type as YMCKT, but the pool cannot
identify the Print Ribbon Type so you must set the Print Ribbon Type.
3 Make sure the printers are powered on and ready.
4 Select Print in the application. The application sends the cards to the printer pool, which randomly distributes
the card jobs among the available Datacard® printers. When all printers are busy, the printer pool keeps the
card jobs in a queue until the next printer is not busy. It will send the next card job as soon as any printer in the
pool is available. A printer is available if:
— The number of jobs active in the printer is less than the number of jobs supported for that printer type