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User’s Guide for the Magna™ Class Printer
Exiting the Status Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-10
Starting or quitting diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-10
Starting or quitting advanced setup . . . . . . . . . . 3-10
Making cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-11
Removing cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-13
Responding to messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-14
Shutting down the system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-16
Chapter 4: Maintaining the printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-1
Using the printer cleaning card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-1
Using the duplex/overlay cleaning card . . . . . . . . 4-3
Using the magnetic stripe cleaning card . . . . . . . . 4-5
Cleaning the printhead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-6
Cleaning the supply tracker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-7
Cleaning the overlay heated roller . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-9
Replacing the printhead cartridge . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-11
Chapter 5: Advanced Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-1
Reinstalling the printer driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-1
Network printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-7
Requirements for local printer sharing . . . . . . . . . 5-7
Printer and PC setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-8
Setting up printing over the network . . . . . . . . . . 5-8
Installing the printer driver on the client PC . . . . . 5-9
Perform management tasks at the host PC . . . . 5-10
Using the printer from the client PC . . . . . . . . . . 5-12
Changing the type of print ribbon . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-13
Change the print ribbon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-13
Change the Print Ribbon Type setting . . . . . . . . 5-13
Change the card design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-14
Change the printhead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-16
Change printhead settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-16
Print sample cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-17
When to change what . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-17
Changing operational settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-18
Chapter 6: Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-1
If you think the printer is not working . . . . . . . . . . 6-1
Problems with card appearance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-2
Print station . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-3
Topcoat applied using the print ribbon . . . . . . . . 6-8
Optional overlay station . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-11
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