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XID 8300 Printer Driver
To reset all assignments for the current Plug-in, click on the "Clear" button.
To reset the assignment of a single printer, either select the dash "-" from the port list and assign it to a
printer ID by clicking on the "arrow-up" button, or assign an already assigned port to another printer ID.
Note: Ports cannot be assigned to two printers at once!
The names of the ports differ from Plug-in to Plug-in, especially with USB encoders, as USB ports do not
have common names.
6.2.3 Format Templates
Some applications require different encodings, depending on the layout of the card, but use one chip type.
Plug-ins can be developed to support multiple encoding styles, definitions, formats, and all in combination.
In order to understand what "Format Templates" do, let's have a look at the following example.
Important
Keep in mind that there are several ways to achieve this, depending on the Plug-in and the
requirement specification!!!
This is only an example demonstrating how a sophisticated Plug-in *could* handle the case. This
does not work with all Plug-ins and it requires the Plug-in to contain support for Format Templates!
Assume we have two cards with different layouts:
The first one is a guest card that should contain only a sequential serial number, which must be written to
sector 0 using the key "1234", has 10 digits and should be filled with leading zeroes. We call it the
"SeqSerNumber".
The second card is an employee card that should contain the employee number, which must be written to
sector 0 using the same key as the guest card, and the first and last name of the employee, along with his
birth date, which must be written to sector 1 using a highly secure key. The field names (and lengths) are
"EmployeeNo" (10) and "Firstname" (20), "Lastname" (20), "BDate" (YY-MM-DD).
Using the same chip cards for both layouts allows using the same Plug-in, just with different "definitions" on
what and how to encode.