Specifications

2 Datacard Smart Driver and ImageCard Printer and Magnetic Stripe Plug-ins
ID Works Basic Version 5 Online Reference Library
Assigning Printer Plug-ins
You specify associations between available printer plug-ins and
installed printers by using the Assign Printer Plug-in utility in the ID
Works Administrator application. See the online help topic “Assign
printer plug-ins” for step-by-step instructions.
If the printer driver was installed on the computer before the ID Works
software was installed, the assignment is made automatically. Printer
plug-ins must be assigned on each computer that prints cards with
your ID Works project.
Printing Multiple Copies of Cards
When a Production operator specifies that two or more copies of a
card be printed, the exact method of fulfilling the request depends on
the features included on the card.
If the card requires neither smart card encoding nor card completion
status (a Software Development Kit feature), the plug-in will send the
number of copies specified to the printer driver and will create a
single print job.
If the card has a smart card chip, the ID Works software will create
one print job for each copy of each card.
If the request includes card completion status, the plug-in will display
an error message and stop the print job. To print multiple copies of a
card with card completion status, submit multiple requests, each with
a card quantity of 1.
Designing an ID Works Project to
Encode Magnetic Stripes
Follow these steps to design an ID Works project that includes
magnetic stripe encoding:
1 On your Production Form, insert a field for each magnetic stripe
track you want to encode. To combine information from two or
more fields on a track, create a composite field. See the online
help topic “Add a composite field to a Production Form” for step-
by-step instructions.