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XID 8300 Printer Driver
Since almost every application handles variable data in a different way, it is far beyond the scope of this
document to give instructions on how to do this. It is recommended to look up the corresponding section of
the application's handbook on how to set up a text field with a string that can hold both, fixed and variable
data.
There are three types of applications that:
- recognize placeholders and replace them inside the fixed text encoding string
- require a temporary field and a script to build the full encoding string
- cannot replace user data at all
Usually applications belonging to the latter category will not be used at all for card production with variable
data per record because they cannot even print variable data.
Important
- Sophisticated Plug-ins can provide a user interface to visually build and test a syntactically
correct encoding string that reflects the fields from the selected format template!
- Applications should provide a way to replace data inside a text field per-record.