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Installation and Uninstallation

 

CLM-20 CardMark

 

 

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Nidec Copal Corporation 

1.  Installation and Uninstallation 

CardMark is the sample application developed based on the SDK of CLM-20. This application is 
developed  to  evaluate  each  function  and  performance  of  CLM-20  such  as  card  transports,  test 
marking and single unit movement. The applicable OS is Windows 7. 
 
Attention:  This application is subject to change without any notice due to improvements or any 
 

other reasons. 

 

The functions or performance may not be satisfied due to PC conditions, 

 

software environment or any other reasons. 

 
Disclaimer:   

Nidec Copal shall not be held responsible for any claims, losses or expenses suffered, directly 
or indirectly, by Users or any third party related to the Software or the use of Software 
regardless of whether any possibility of such claims, losses or expenses were made known to 
Nidec Copal beforehand and Users agree to hold Nidec Copal harmless against any such 
claims, losses or expenses. 
 
THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND WHETHER 
EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF 
MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, RELIABILITY OF 
OPERATION AND NONINFRINGEMENT OF THIRD PARTY RIGHTS. 

 

1.1.  Installation 

Installation is required to use the CardMark.    You also need to install the laser marker SDK and 
the  card  control  SDK  separately.    For  the  procedure  to  install  those  SDK,  refer  to  those 
specifications. 
Run 

“setup.exe”  in 

“App¥CardMark¥Release_????”

  of  the  disk,  then  the  following  screen  will 

appear.    Click 

“Install”. 

Note: ???? of the filename represents version of the setup. 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Summary of Contents for COPAL CLM-20

Page 1: ...opal Corporation History of Changes Version Date Description 1 0 16 May 2013 Released initial version with contents separated from the maintenance manual 1 1 16 May 2015 Reviewed 1 2 15 Jun 2016 Added Sequential numbering Changed the face image ...

Page 2: ...2 2 4 Edit item 12 2 5 Total Control 13 2 6 Manual Control 13 2 7 Other 13 3 Automatic Marking 14 3 1 Select Marking File 14 3 2 Specify number of Marking 14 3 3 Start Marking 14 4 Add Edit Delete 15 4 1 Common 15 4 2 Add Text 16 4 3 Add Bar Code 17 4 4 Import File button 18 4 5 Edit Delete 19 4 6 Sequential Numbering 20 5 Example for Ordinary Marking 21 5 1 Example 21 5 2 Creating the data 22 5 3...

Page 3: ...rectly by Users or any third party related to the Software or the use of Software regardless of whether any possibility of such claims losses or expenses were made known to Nidec Copal beforehand and Users agree to hold Nidec Copal harmless against any such claims losses or expenses THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO IMPLI...

Page 4: ...Installation and Uninstallation CLM 20 CardMark Page 4 of 27 Nidec Copal Corporation Click Next according to the descriptions on the screen ...

Page 5: ...g screen appears the installation has been successfully completed 1 2 Verifying Installation Check if the drivers and CardMark software are correctly installed 1 Turn the power of CLM 20 on and connect it to your PC Turn the sub power switch on check if the orange lamp changes from blinking to lighting ...

Page 6: ...es not recognize the CLM 20 the screen may be like the following The cause can be wrong connection between your PC and the CLM 20 or failure in the driver installation Check the connection again and try installation of driver again Also refer to the chapter 4 Installation Failure on both 32 bit and 64 bit OS of the CLM 20 Press Status Check Check if green green green and yellow colors light from l...

Page 7: ...be slightly different If the problem is not solved though you restart the Card Mark and restart the CLM 20 you should check if wrong version of CardMark has been installed Uninstall the CardMark and then install the correct version of CardMark The serial number of laser equipment is displayed as 0 Colors are other than green green green yellow Background is white ...

Page 8: ...l Corporation 1 3 Uninstallation If you install 64 bit version of CardMark into the 32 bit OS or vice versa by mistake you need to uninstall the software and install the correction version 1 3 1 Windows 7 1 Open Control Panel 2 Select Programs 3 Select Uninstall a program ...

Page 9: ...Installation and Uninstallation CLM 20 CardMark Page 9 of 27 Nidec Copal Corporation 4 Select double click CLM20 5 Press Yes ...

Page 10: ...Installation and Uninstallation CLM 20 CardMark Page 10 of 27 Nidec Copal Corporation 1 3 2 Windows XP 1 Open Control Panel 2 Select Add or Remove Programs 3 Select CLM20 and press Remove ...

Page 11: ...11 of 27 Nidec Copal Corporation 2 Screen Images CardMark enables feeding of Card and marking using the application created by SDK It is used for evaluation and adjustment 2 1 Startup Run CardMark exe Following dialogue will be displayed ...

Page 12: ...t of power supply Guide beam illumination center Guide beam illumination Marking range Laser status Check and display Laser status Displayed in code hexadecimal Marking Time out period s Specify marking speed Normal speed displayed as speed normal At high speed displayed as speed fast Power On Yellow Off Gray Emergency On Red Off Green LD fault On Red Off Green Interlock On Red Off Green Add Circl...

Page 13: ...et MLI CLI marking Clear Back File designation MLI CLI Setting To reverse card To insert card To eject card Reset CLM 20 Obtain Information Display Information Shift card position for optional lens Manual Marking Start button Make sure that the card is correctly set before starting marking CLM 20 IRD CLM 20 CAM Forward card to camera unit Send card to reject stacker Display image of the card in ca...

Page 14: ...t side If continue to mark on the back side select image by clicking Button to select marking image for back side Select file from folder File Extension is lcpl 3 2 Specify number of Marking Specify number of marking by altering the number as shown below 3 3 Start Marking Clicking Automatic Marking Start button will let you start the Marking it is common between manual insert and hopper connection...

Page 15: ...ter a value between 7 and 100 μm Input value Converted to dpi 84 300 64 400 51 500 42 600 36 700 32 800 Selecting finer resolution will increase the marking time as well as increasing energy per unit area therefore resulting in a darker density Adjust density by power 4 1 4 Speed Enter a value between 2 and 100 4 1 5 Pulse Times of marking for pixel Enter a value between 1 and 10 times 4 1 6 Pass ...

Page 16: ...utton following Window will appear on the screen Specify font Specify font style Click OK after specifying parameters will fix the selected parameters Specify character string Specify character size letter height Specify coordinate Specify whether fill is on or off Specify alignment Specify rotation angle ...

Page 17: ...e By clicking Add Bar Code Widow shown below will appear Code examples QR Code Data Matrix FPD417 Specify Data Specify Bar Code type Specify Coordinate Specify Coordinate Specify rotation angle in a unit of 90 degrees Click OK after specifying parameters will fix the selected parameters ...

Page 18: ...the original image data Example if the image is 750 pixels x 1000 pixels 30mm width and 40mm height could be among the combinations of width and height With a wrong combination resulting image could be like followings Specify coordinate Maintain Width as basis alter Height to keep the ratio the same as the original image Maintain Height as basis alter Width to keep the ratio the same as the origin...

Page 19: ... Nidec Copal Corporation 4 5 Edit Delete Click arrow and select item you wish to edit or delete Selecting item you wish to delete and clicking Delete will cause item to be deleted Please note that you cannot undo delete Text Code Rectangle Circle ...

Page 20: ...racters and barcodes designate the following sections Attention Number is counted up after the marking operation is done It is counted up even when the marking ended in error Please do not forget to save the file each time you temporary stop marking operation using this function After read the file please make sure a number is correct In the use of Auto marking function an updated default value is...

Page 21: ...ata to be created here are as follows 1 Text CLM 20 Font size 4 mm 2 Oval width 9 mm height 4 mm 3 Rectangle width 9 mm height 4 mm 4 Code QR code CLM 20 width 13 mm height 13 mm 5 Image BMP file width 14 mm height 20 mm The marking image is follows Coordinate is as follows The reference coordinate coordinate of the upper left corner of the data of each data is shown in the below table Unit mm No ...

Page 22: ...al Corporation 5 2 Creating the data From here we actually create the data Check the box Card Area to display the frame of card 5 2 1 Adding a text Text CLM 20 font size 4 mm Click Add Text to display the dialogue shown on the right Set parameters as shown on the right ...

Page 23: ...related to the font Click OK to close the dialogue and display the setting result For this example configure as shown 5 2 2 Adding circle oval Oval width 9 mm height 4 mm Click Add Circle to display the dialogue shown below Set parameters as shown below and click OK to close the dialogue and display the setting result ...

Page 24: ...isplay the dialogue shown on the right Set parameters as shown on the right and click OK to close the dialogue and display the setting result 5 2 4 Adding code Code QR code CLM 20 width 13 mm height 13 mm Click Add Code to display the dialogue shown on the right Set parameters as shown on the right and click OK to close the dialogue and display the setting result ...

Page 25: ...lect an image file and click Open to close the dialogue and display the dialogue shown on the right Set the parameters as shown on the right For example modify the Width value and then click to make automatic configuration by calculating the height value with maintaining the aspect ratio Set parameters as shown on the right and click OK to close the dialogue and display the setting result ...

Page 26: ... name of image file will be memorized with the absolute path Therefore the image cannot be loaded when the corresponding folder is modified after saving the image file In that case open the marking data file lcpl as text file search its contents and modify the path information 5 4 Marking Now make the marking on the front side of card Click Front File to display the following dialogue and specify ...

Page 27: ...0 CardMark Page 27 of 27 Nidec Copal Corporation Set the number of cards and click Card Marking Insert the card after the shutter at the entrance of equipment opens The equipment will take in the card make the marking on it and eject it ...

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