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User’s Guide for Magna™ Platinum™ Series Printers
Contents
Section 1: Operating the Printer
Chapter 1: Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-1
About this manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-2
Audience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-2
About the Magna printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-2
Printer models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3
Printer features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-6
Who to call for assistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-11
Chapter 2: Using the printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-1
Tips for success . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-2
Loading cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-3
Loading the print ribbon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-5
Loading the overlay or topcoat material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-7
Removing the supply cartridge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-7
Loading supply in the cartridge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-8
Replacing the supply cartridge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-10
Verifying the debower position . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-11
Powering on the printer and PC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-13
Ready button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-14
Status light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-14
Making cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-15
Operating tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-18
Removing cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-18
Responding to messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-19
Shutting down the printer and PC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-21
Chapter 3: Using the printer driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-1
Working with Properties and other driver dialog boxes . 3-2
Tips for Properties, Printing Preferences, and
Default Document Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-2
Properties for Windows Me & 98 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-3
Properties & Printing Preferences for
Windows 2000 & XP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-4
Properties and Default Document Properties for
Windows NT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-7
Using the Printer Toolbox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-10
Opening and using the Printer Toolbox . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-12
Viewing Printer Toolbox information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-13
Chapter 4: Maintaining the printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-1
Running a cleaning cycle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-2
Using the printer cleaning card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-2
Replacing the cleaning roller sleeve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-3
Using the magnetic stripe cleaning card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-5
Cleaning the printer rollers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-6
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