User guide

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Chapter 1: Welcome to Card
Printer Solutions
This manual describes the XPS Card Printer and
how to use it to meet your organization's needs for
a card printer system.
It provides site managers, integrators, and others responsible for an ID system
with information to plan and set up a successful card program and to continue
delivery of quality printed cards.
The card printer is a compact printer that applies personalization to plastic cards.
Personalization includes printing, encoding magnetic stripe data, and reading or
programming smart cards.
A desktop card printer is a self-contained unit that receives data from a PC (or
other computer), personalizes the card using the data, and ejects the card.
Desktop card printers have one or two cards in them at a time, and are designed
to issue cards where the user is, called on-demand or instant issuance.
Fast Facts
• The printer is designed to issue cards either one at a time or in batches — up
to 100 (0.030-in) cards at a time.
• A busy issuance site might issue up to 10,000 cards a month. During busy
times, the site might use more than one printer to keep up with demand.
New Printer Family
The printer is part of a new family of printers that use new technology to expand
their capabilities. Several notable features of the printer family are:
• A Windows driver which uses XPS print technology for professional, color-
managed printing
• A printer-resident Web Server, named Printer Manager, which provides
status information, access to printer settings, and troubleshooting tools
• A printer command language, called DPCL, which manages all aspects of
printer operation