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XID 8300 Printer Driver
Unfortunately, it cannot be determined in advance whether an application sends the string in the correct
format or not. The simplest way to check this is to print a layout containing a valid encoding string. If the
string is printed, the application does not support the way how the driver intercepts the encoding string.
However, this has been tested thoroughly with many different applications and there are two rules-of-thumb
that you have to know:
Pixel graphic drawing applications usually render text "as pixels" and are therefore not capable of sending
the encoding string "as text" to the driver.
Special transformations for shading, blending, winding, squeezing, skewing, twisting, outlining and anything
else do process the text "as graphic" and are therefore not suggested for the encoding string.
The font, however, is not relevant for parsing, as long as if it is a standard Windows font.
So to summarize all of the above:
Important
- The encoding string must be on front page of the layout!
- The encoding string must be in plain standard format with no special effects in the layout!
6.4 Multi-printer encoding
By using multiple XID 9330 printers in a printer group (see 5.2.2.1, Creation of Printer Groups) the
throughput of produced cards per hour can significantly increased.
The printer driver offers full support for printing and encoding on multiple printers simultaneously.
Note that the correct port assignment for each printer using an encoder is required before printing and
encoding in a printer group.
6.5 Printing and encoding over network
Multiple workstations on the network can print on a PC that has one or more printers attached locally and
has shared the printers in Windows. Such a PC is called print server.
On the print server, it is mandatory that a user is logged on, otherwise the dispatcher will not be able to
process the jobs.
As the encoding string is embedded in the layout, the encoding string is transported inside the print job (or
spool job) over the network from the printing workstation to the print server.
The print server will properly process the job including the encoding, and distribute it to the corresponding
printers.