User`s guide
Table Of Contents
- Title page
- Contents
- Chapter 1: Overview
- Chapter 2: Getting started
- General requirements
- Selecting the site
- Electrical requirements
- Physical requirements
- Environmental requirements
- Unpacking the printer
- Who to call for assistance
- Connecting the printer
- Loading cards
- Loading the print ribbon
- Powering on the system
- Installing the printer driver
- Setup tips
- Making and evaluating test cards
- Printer test card
- Chapter 3: Using the printer
- Chapter 4: Maintaining the printer
- Chapter 5: Advanced Information
- Chapter 6: Troubleshooting
- App. A: Safety and compliance
- App. B: Supplies and cards
- App. C: PC settings
- App. D: Magnetic stripe encoding
- Index

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User’s Guide for Express™ and Select™ Printers
Contents
Chapter 1: Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-1
About this manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-2
Audience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-2
About the Express or Select printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-2
Printer models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-2
Printer features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-4
PC and software specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-8
Chapter 2: Getting started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-1
General requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-1
Selecting the site . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-2
Electrical requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-2
Physical requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-2
Environmental requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-3
Unpacking the printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-3
Who to call for assistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-4
Connecting the printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-4
Loading cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-6
Loading the print ribbon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-7
Powering on the system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-10
Installing the printer driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-11
Installing the Windows 95/98 printer driver . . . . . . . . . . 2-11
Installing the printer driver on Windows NT . . . . . . . . . . 2-12
Setup tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-14
Making and evaluating test cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-15
Printer test card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-16
Chapter 3: Using the printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-1
Working with printer settings and data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-1
Settings and data for Windows NT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-1
Settings and data for Windows 98 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-4
Using the Status Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-5
Opening and using the Status dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-6
Viewing Status Monitor information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-7
Making cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-8
Removing cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-9
Responding to messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-10
Shutting down the system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-11
Chapter 4: Maintaining the printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-1
Using the printer cleaning card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-1
Using the duplex cleaning card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-2
Using the magnetic stripe cleaning card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-4
Cleaning the printer rollers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-5
Cleaning the printhead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-7
Replacing the printhead cartridge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-7