Print card

All kinds of Windows applications have document printing capabilities (such as Microsoft Office suite MS-Word, MS-Access, MS-Excel, MS-PowerPoint, and the DASCOM self-designed card editing software CardEditor).

To understand the card layout and its format and print configuration, you are advised to refer to the following example.

Software Card Editor is used to support DASCOM card printers. Users can quickly generate and edit content that needs to be printed.

(1) Double clicks “Card Editor” icon to start, click “create” icon as following picture.

There’re 5 buttons:

Click above buttons separately can control different function:

Button 1: New, user can create a new card.

Button 2: Template, user can choose a suitable card template, then edit and modify it.

Button 3: Open, user can open the card file which filename extension is CE.

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Button 4: Wizard, user can add black ground, images, barcode and text when creating a new card.

Button 5: Quit, click this button to quit CARDEDITOR.

(2) After click “new” button, user can choose the card type he/she wants. Select “CR80” in “card type” and select “Landscape” or “Portrait” in the “card direction”. Then click “OK”.

(3) The card file objects two types: “basic editing” and “advanced tools”. The “basic editing”

includes lines, rectangle, circles, text, one dimensional code QR code and images. The

“advanced tools” includes clip art, print counting, date, database image, image collection and signature collection. Each object has some properties, such as location, borders, color, fill, rotation and so on. The user can add these objects to the card area refer to their requirements.

And the position of these objects can be adjusted by selecting and dragging with mouse. Click

“Delete” can delete the objects.

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Click “Template” on the right side of the user interface, then user can see many default templates as follow:

The detailed instruction can be found as below picture:

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(4) Double clicks the model you want to edit, when you finish click the “print” on the “file” menu.

(5) You can print the card directly.

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(6) If you want to modify the driver settings, such as card direction, single side or double-sided printing, card modification or processing, you can click "advanced option" to change the driver.

As for popup print Settings, and then click "ok" to save Settings. Then click "print".

The main selections are “card”, ”graphic setting”, ”graphic setting(reverse side)” and

“maintenance”.

“Card” Tabs

• The printing side

User can choose front/ reverse side to print. Printer can print the image on the card reverse side and can also split the different color of the ribbon.

• Card direction:

Portrait or landscape

• Print quantity

• Rotation

Rotate 180° printing on the front/reverse side.

• Ribbon tabs

User can choose the card type manually and also check the printer ribbon type automatically.

• Card thickness

Choose thick: available for card with thickness of 0.76cm, 0.88cm and 1.00cm.

Choose thin: available for card with thickness of 0.48cm.

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“Graphic Setting” Tabs

• Color setting

User can get the proper color via settings. User can also adjust the color brightness, contrast and chroma.

• Settings of Black ribbon using

User can print black via print K color or YMC secondary colors and K color. As well as, user can choose monochrome printing, color printing, set the black valid area and the black invalid area.

“Black ribbon settings”

• Monochrome printing or color printing

Choose the card which is monochrome printing or color printing.

• The printing method of black data.

Set black color via using K color to print or using YMC secondary colors and K color to print.

• The valid area of black printing

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Set up the valid area of K color printing, the area is from the top left corner (0Pixel,0Pixel)to the lower right corner(2112Pixel,1324Pixel) on the card. Use width and height to set the length and width of the invalid printing area.

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“Graphic setting (the reverse side)” Tabs

• Color setting

User can get the proper color via settings. User can also adjust the color brightness, contrast and chroma.

• Settings of Black ribbon using

User can print black via print K color or YMC secondary colors and K color. As well as, user can choose monochrome printing, color printing, set the black valid area and the black invalid area.

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“Maintaining” Tabs

• Printing test

Print the test content.

• Printer information

User can check the printer DPI, the maximum printing area and minimum printing area.

• Printer parameter setting

User can read the detailed printer parameter.

• Showing the printer status monitor

Decide whether the monitor pops up during printing.

• Color management

Processing optimization of Color can make the color more consistent with the color displayed by the software.

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“Printer parameter settings”

• User mode

User can read the printer information, options state and various of configuration information. The printer information parameters and options state parameters only support readable. Configuration information support can read and write (reference 3.2 user mode)

• Service mode

The password is “123456”.If you want to modify it, you can follow the below steps:

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In service mode, user can modify the print position, print density, system settings, print head, option state and configuration. Please don’t random change them, it may lead to poor printing effect.

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