User guide

SD/CD Series Card Printers OpenCard Data Format Guide 3
Intended Audience
This manual is intended primarily for personnel who create and manage files for card formats
and data streams, referred to in this guide as card format designers.
Card format designer’s prior knowledge:
• Have a general idea of the appearance and content of the card formats they are defining.
• Understand the type of data to be printed on the cards (text, bar codes, logos).
• Be familiar with printer ribbons and ribbon panels (such as YMCKT ribbon panels).
• Be familiar with the source of the data to be printed on cards.
• Know how to use a command line, browser application, and how to work over a network.
Card format designer’s job responsibilities using OpenCard:
• Work with the Datacard Printer Manager browser menus to view and manage posted card
format files, images, fonts, and font families.
• Card format designers who use the Legacy Option create card layouts for printing on
Datacard SP55, SP60, CP60, and FP65 model printers and export these card layouts using
Telnet. These designers use Printer Manager to import card layouts, fonts, and images to the
SD/CD Series card printers.
• Card format designers who use the SD/CD Series card printers create card formats in Scalable
Vector Graphics (SVG) markup language and use Printer Manager to import card formats,
fonts, and images to the SD/CD Series card printers.