User guide

SD/CD Series Card Printers OpenCard Data Format Guide 7
Legacy Option for Card Layouts from SP/CP
Series Printers
If your organization currently sends data tagged with OpenCard commands to an SP/CP Series
card printer or embosser, you can use the same data stream to produce cards using the Legacy
Option features shown in this guide. With the Legacy Option, you export the legacy card layouts
originally created for a SP/CP Series card printer, and then import those card layouts and their
graphics and fonts to the SD/CD Series card printer.
The Legacy Option supports OpenCard production data formatting containing text and magnetic
stripe data items, as well as card layout selection.
Using the Legacy Option with OpenCard, legacy card layouts maintain their original capabilities:
• Front-side monochrome black printing of text, bar codes, and graphics on a single-sided,
landscape-oriented card.
• Import up to four black-and-white image files to the printer. The printer does not provide the
ability to download a different logo or graphic for each card.
• ISO magnetic stripe tracks 1, 2 and 3
• Printer-resident fonts, font-families and bar codes
To use the Legacy Option to produce cards on the SD/CD Series card printers, you must use
text sizes and font typefaces that are available on the Legacy Series printers. These typefaces
are within font families for Courier, Sans, and Serif, and are installed on SD/CD Series card
printers.
Bar code font typefaces are also bundled with the Legacy Series printers. They include the
following:
A note about printing The Legacy Option supports monochrome printing on one
side of the card. On color printers, if you use a full-color ribbon in the printer when
you send OpenCard data, the printer uses only the K panel in the ribbon. The color
panels will not be used.
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Code39 • UPCA • EAN13
• Code128 • EAN8