The following keywords in an encoding string are
reserved
by the driver and processed in a special
way.
Keyword Option
Format
Description
pi mandatory Text
p
lug
i
n name
This name must match with the one shown in the
Installed
Plugins
list in Plugin Manager.
ft optional
Text
f
ormat
t
emplate name
This name must match with one of the format templates
shown in the
Format Templates
list in Plugin Manager for
the plugin selected above (keyword "
pi
").
so optional
Number
s
equence
o
rder
This specifies the sequence order and should only be used
when using multiple encoding strings on one card. The
numbers can be chosen freely.
The encodings will be processed in ascending order.
If two so-numbers are equal, the processing order of the
two is undefined and dependent on the application!
pre optional
-
pre
code 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 present
in the precode step and
must be omitted
in the second (encode) step. It has no
value!
In addition, the printer will be locked for the precode-id
(see below).
pid optional
Number
p
recode
id
The number must uniquely identify the precode step and
must be the same on the second (encode) step.
This attribute is mandatory in an environment where
precoding is done and
must be present in both steps
.
The application needs to take care that each card to be
printed and encoded gets a unique precode ID that is used
for both steps.
The printer is locked in the first step for this precode ID
and only a second job with the same ID can unlock the
printer. Therefore it is required that other cards have
different IDs.
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