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5.3.  LUT / Password 

5.3.1. Lookup Table Configuration 

 
Inside the Lookup Table Configuration the user has the possibility of using his own LUT tables. 
LUT tables contain the color control values, which can be used instead of the internal printer LUT. 
 
The Lookup Table contains the values to control the print density for every color separately. It can 
be useful to get the same color impression if the customer needs to print on several materials with 
backgrounds in different shades of white. 
 

Remember:

 Using LUTs other than the printer’s internal ones requires deep knowledge in color 

management and is recommended for special cases only!! 
 

 

 

 

 

5.3.2. Password 

 
The password option is designed for use in high security environments only. The user can set a 
password to the printer to make sure only certified operators are able to use this protected printer. 
 

Remember:

 This function is disabled by default and can only be enabled by contacting Digital 

Identification Solutions! 
 

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Summary of Contents for Prima 3 XID570ie

Page 1: ...Reverse transfer ID card printer Printer Driver Manual Prima 3 P R O F E S S I O N A L S E R I E S Secure ID card printers...

Page 2: ...Windows XP Professional as well as under new Windows Vista operating system This driver was designed for the best performance and stability Additionally all the necessary features referring to differe...

Page 3: ...8 3 5 4 Track Formats 38 3 5 5 Card Output 39 3 5 6 Material Usage 39 3 5 7 Sample of magnetic stripe Encoding 40 4 Advanced Intelligent Printer Management AIPM 41 4 1 Introduction 41 4 2 Dispatcher 4...

Page 4: ...oding 67 6 5 Printing and encoding over network 68 6 6 Multiple encodings on one card 68 6 7 Precoding 69 6 8 Encoding String 70 6 8 1 Encoding string examples 73 7 Troubleshooting and known limitatio...

Page 5: ...d to loss of revenue or profit lost or damaged data or other commercial or economic loss even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages or they are foreseeable or for claims by a thir...

Page 6: ...rogram Setup XID5xx 5 5 exe from your driver CD ROM Follow the instructions See the following screen shots The installation itself contains two separate steps in one installation procedure First the p...

Page 7: ...ice will result in a non working printer An administrator password can be set during initial installation This password grants access to the Administration Center Note It is possible to leave this fie...

Page 8: ...Note It is recommended to use the proposed default path Please verify the path shown and click Next Click Install to continue Click Continue Anyway to continue the installation Prima 3 Driver Manual 8...

Page 9: ...Click Continue Anyway to continue the installation Click Continue Anyway to continue the installation Now the files will be installed Prima 3 Driver Manual 9...

Page 10: ...t may be necessary as shown below Please wait until the driver installation is completed then click Finish The selected printer should appear here see arrow Under Start Programs XID5xx Printer you sho...

Page 11: ...st page as follows After your test page has been printed successfully click OK After the installation has been completed connect the printer to the PC and power on The Hardware Wizard appears and show...

Page 12: ...and click Next Choose Install the software automatically and click Next Note The hardware name XID 5xxie U2 may differ depending on the firmware and the ID of the printer The Hardware Wizard appears...

Page 13: ...ardware wizard will install the needed files automatically Click Finish to close the Hardware Wizard Congratulations You have successfully finished the printer driver installation Prima 3 Driver Manua...

Page 14: ...s and name the printer Afterwards other users can select this printer within the network environment Note The screenshot may differ depending on system configurations The required printer port will be...

Page 15: ...The Color Management settings should only be used by experienced users Prima 3 Driver Manual 15...

Page 16: ...Note The screenshot may differ depending on system configuration On the About tab you will find the version of the installed printer driver Prima 3 Driver Manual 16...

Page 17: ...common to print strings barcodes etc with Carbon K black for achieving a better and sharper impression The print order per full color site with an YMCK ribbon appears as following Yellow Magenta Cyan...

Page 18: ...n This option will be used to setup the page orientation between Portrait and Landscape 3 2 2 Set up for Control of Printing Encoding This option sets up the control of Print and Encode Encode only or...

Page 19: ...se note that the magstripe function is for visualization AND activation 3 2 3 Set up for Layout Orientation The Setup for Layout Orientation is the central point of orientation definition of cards and...

Page 20: ...age of the color ribbon for side A Front side and side B Back side Rotation Swap The rotation button will rotate the full card 180 while the swap button will exchange the front and back of the layout...

Page 21: ...ts to be printed on K plane By enabling Text you are able to specify if all text or only black text should be printed on the K plane Sample The upper text box was printed with K and the lower box with...

Page 22: ...d on the K plane 3 3 5 K Plane options 3 3 5 1 Definition of special colors for printing on K plane If you use special colors to match existing ones on your layout they will be printed on K plane Afte...

Page 23: ...color which will not be used in the rest of the layout Pure colors like Magenta will never appear in digital photos so it is safe to use them without introducing side effects By clicking OK the color...

Page 24: ...n of areas for printing on K plane In combination with the special colors see chapter 3 3 5 you can define inclusion areas After clicking on the area button the following dialog window appears Prima 3...

Page 25: ...move or resize by clicking on the area itself or choose it from the list You can move the area pixel by pixel using the cursor keys To Delete an existing area Select the area you want to delete or cho...

Page 26: ...Preview of defined sample K Panel areas Measurement changes The following sample shows a change of units e g from Pixel to Inch Prima 3 Driver Manual 26...

Page 27: ...Tip Keeping values after disabling gives you the flexibility to design the areas before you enable this setting Prima 3 Driver Manual 27...

Page 28: ...s designed to define areas which will be prevented from printing e g signature fields The YMCK PO looks like shown Yellow Magenta Cyan Carbon K Peel Off PO Note A special ribbon type is required to us...

Page 29: ...king the checkbox Warning Use of full PO area results in non visible printout In each case you need to define smaller areas e g signature fields After clicking on the PO area button the following wind...

Page 30: ...area you want to move or resize by clicking on the area itself or choose it from the list You can move the area pixel by pixel using the cursor keys To Delete an existing area Select the area you wan...

Page 31: ...Preview of defined sample K Panel areas Tip Keeping values after disabling gives you the flexibility to design the areas before you enable this setting Prima 3 Driver Manual 31...

Page 32: ...ally two retransfer patches will be used for color and UV print to achieve the best durabiltiy against bleaching effects In opposite to the print colors UV belongs to the addtional colors and therefor...

Page 33: ...on 3 Color mode 256 Grayscale For security reasons the bitmap can be stored locally as well on the network Refer to the sample below 3 4 2 2 Option UV Area Offset If area s were defined all content wi...

Page 34: ...stored for future use if disabled 3 4 2 3 Option UV from second page If an application is capable to print multipage documents e g MS Word then the activated option UV from second page will force eve...

Page 35: ...3 4 3 Security Area The corner position of the printer s unique identifier can be defined here Prima 3 Driver Manual 35...

Page 36: ...he values this influences the complete layout K plane Offset The changing of the values for K plane only influences the offset of the K plane 3 5 2 K Dithering The new K dithering feature allows to ad...

Page 37: ...ng When encoding and printing batch jobs without the built in Advanced Chip Encoding Framework the option Wait for card exit must be checked 3 5 4 Track Formats The track formats are shown for informa...

Page 38: ...e the card orientation when leaving the printer This option should be used only if an external lamination unit is attached to the printer 3 5 6 Material Usage The Material Usage area shows the expecte...

Page 39: ...number 1 2 or 3 on which you intend to encode the data The data to be encoded should then follow The first character of this data string must be the track s specific SS Start Sentinel and the last cha...

Page 40: ...ears in the program group under the XID5xx Printer folder or starts automatically when launching a print job Up to 7 printers XID590i model only can be connected to one PC The Dispatcher performs the...

Page 41: ...Cards in Tray All values will be updated dynamically Note The values shown are an approximation 4 2 3 Print Jobs All jobs handled by the dispatcher are shown in the File List area Every time an applic...

Page 42: ...g procedure is needed an info line at the bottom shows the related info message 4 2 4 Tools The tools from the pull down menu are designed to control following items Clear Spooler If there is a reason...

Page 43: ...error recovery Suspense e g job can wait Restart e g after an error occurred Move to top prioritization Depending on the actual status of the print job particular functions may not be available In ad...

Page 44: ...directory no modification of the driver is needed All administrative functions like Printer Settings Options and LUT Password are now shifted into the Administration Center The following Plug In DLLs...

Page 45: ...vailable if temperature is not Off 5 1 3 Ink settings Ribbon Type YMCK YMCK PO YMCKK Note The auto detection function will always show the currently mounted type of color ribbon Resin Black 3 Thin Sta...

Page 46: ...file From Printer Settings will be read from printer s memory To Printer Settings will be downloaded and stored to the printers memory Test Print Starts a test print Card Material Predefined settings...

Page 47: ...enable saving the latest spool file for support purposes in case of problems This spool file will be stored in the Windows system printer directory by default Show messages Enabled by default The user...

Page 48: ...virtual driver shown in the Windows printer folder without sending jobs individually In addition a single printer can be defined as a virtual printer for routing the jobs to specific printer The foll...

Page 49: ...rofiles and Printer Grouping the user needs to enter a new group name and the ID of the printer which will belong to this group In the following window the user can enter the following settings Note P...

Page 50: ...The following two samples show how to enter the information Sample A As a result of this definition the printer appears in the list 1 3 2 4 Prima 3 Driver Manual 50...

Page 51: ...ding overlapping IDs as shown in the sample two groups named PrinterXID 2 to 4 with the IDs 2 3 and 4 was added XID ARF s Printer Farm with the IDs 1 7 was added After successfully adding a virtual pr...

Page 52: ...Printer Groups the following steps have to be done 1 Highlight a group by clicking the right mouse button and 2 Click button Delete Group Remember Deleting a printer group from within the Administrati...

Page 53: ...inter settings out of the Dispatcher for the highlighted printer name as shown below 5 2 3 2 Exporting of Printer Driver Profiles By clicking on the Export button a save dialog will be opened as shown...

Page 54: ...rting of Printer Driver Profiles If the customer needs to import the printer profiles he can do this by clicking on the Import button The Windows open dialog will be opened as shown below Prima 3 Driv...

Page 55: ...he customer needs to print on several materials with backgrounds in different shades of white Remember Using LUTs other than the printer s internal ones requires deep knowledge in color management and...

Page 56: ...it can be changed here To do so retype the old password and type the new password twice to confirm Click on OK to store the changes If the new passwords do not match or the old password is wrong an e...

Page 57: ...aded and executed by the driver This software is fed with all the necessary information which is needed to perform the encoding on the chip Since there is a large combination of different chips and cu...

Page 58: ...lugins window as shown below Plugin Manager after clean installation As the requirements on the chip type and encoder hardware differ users can install the plugins they need for their encoding require...

Page 59: ...manufacturers explicitly restrict the communication to one device at a time only so the encoding process for further devices must be delayed until the encoding for one device is finished The plugin mu...

Page 60: ...er and one specific printer Since each encoder is also attached physically to the computer USB COM or any other possible port a link of a printer ID and the port where the encoder hardware is attached...

Page 61: ...inter ID in the printer list the encoder s port name in the port list and then pressing the arrow up button to create the link This procedure must be repeated for each encoder connected to a printer T...

Page 62: ...card is an employee card that should contain the employee number which must be written to sector 0 using the same key as the guest card and the first and last name of the employee along with his birth...

Page 63: ...n does not need to provide support for format templates at all The lack of support may also be desired by the security requirements of the application According to the example another plugin could als...

Page 64: ...test dialog and show the corresponding functions that are necessary to configure the encoder hardware and to test the encoding of the card The extent of the user interface depends on each plugin i e t...

Page 65: ...string on the layout it will not print it on the card but use it for encoding Therefore the encoding string must be sent as text by the application The switch for the driver to find the encoding strin...

Page 66: ...nt page of the layout The encoding string must be in plain standard format with no special effects in the layout 6 4 Multi printer encoding By using multiple XID 590i printers in a printer group see 5...

Page 67: ...free printers with the option Redistribute print job on the Options page of Administration Center This guarantees that all cards in the batch will be produced without user interaction assuming that en...

Page 68: ...st step is called Precoding In this step the card will only be loaded to the encoder and the printer will be locked for the second step and data from the chip is processed No printing is done at this...

Page 69: ...ing the string John Doe Wood the attribute must look like pi field1 John Doe Wood The encoding string always starts and ends with the curly brackets containing the encoding information for one encodin...

Page 70: ...l encoding string cannot replace user data at all Usually applications belonging to the latter category will not be used at all for card production with variable data per record because they cannot ev...

Page 71: ...is undefined and dependent on the application pre optional precode step This indicates that this is a precode step in which the card will only be loaded but not yet printed This attribute must be pre...

Page 72: ...Contact and the format template Payment then encodes with the plugin Mifare and the format template All Access then prints 3 Precoding Job 1 pi Contact ft Guest pre pid 16457 encoding data Job 2 pi Co...

Page 73: ...rance of encoding strings This example shows how an encoding string does appear in the application window and does not appear on the printed card Encoding string in the layout Printed card Prima 3 Dri...

Page 74: ...ause or re print jobs In case the error persists mostly due to a hardware error please write down the error message and contact the company from which you purchased the printer Known limitations Copy...

Page 75: ...d how to find the correct settings in six intuitive steps For first time users take the card template that was used for designing the layout Place it in front of you to be able to look at it and to tu...

Page 76: ...ign is a one or two sided layout i e if the layout has only a front side or a front and back side One sided layout Select Front side of card Back side of card or Two sided layout Select Front side of...

Page 77: ...Step 2 Landscape or portrait Check if the design is a landscape or a portrait design Landscape Select or Portrait Select Prima 3 Driver Manual 77...

Page 78: ...ank it is important to select the features so the driver knows in which order and the sides must be printed Magnetic stripe card Select or Contact chip card Select Note If the card has both encoding f...

Page 79: ...n not upside down The following illustration shows a vertical flip axis i e the card is flipped along its short side edge Vertical flip axis Select or Horizontal flip axis Select Rule of thumb If you...

Page 80: ...ic stripe The stripe can either be on the top or the bottom of the layout Contact chip The chip can either be on the left or the right side of the layout Important The rotation button will rotate the...

Page 81: ...c stripe or the chip are shown at the wrong side of the layout Magnetic stripe The stripe can either be on the front or the back side of the layout Contact chip The chip can either be on the front or...

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