Product Info
Table Of Contents
- SP_Info_Central.book
- SP Series Info Central
- What do you want to do?
- Answer questions you have about using the printer
- Learn how to use this online information
- Learn more about tasks, such as installation, setup, or maintenance
- Solve problems with printing
- Access an online version of the Printer Guide
- Open help for the Printer Toolbox and Messages
- Open help for Properties or Printing Preferences
- Safety and compliance (FCC)
- Acknowledgments
- SP Series Info Central
- SP_Install_e-guide.book
- Installation
- Before you install
- Install the printer
- Installing the driver
- Upgrading the driver
- Reinstalling the driver
- Troubleshooting Installation Problems
- PC port settings
- Connecting more than one printer or more than one PC
- On the CD-ROM
- Installation
- SP_Setup_e-guide.book
- Setting up for your card design
- How do I create a card design?
- What is a card design?
- When should I perform setup tasks?
- What do I use to set up the printer?
- Why are there several interfaces to set up the printer?
- Card design checklist
- Working with Properties and Printing Preferences
- Changing the type of print ribbon
- Set up for monochrome (K) printing
- Color settings
- Changing settings in the printer
- Magnetic Stripe Setup
- Smart card setup
- Setting up for your card design
- SP_Production_e-guide.book
- SP_Supplies_e-guide.book
- SP_Troubleshooting_e-guide.book
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SP Series Info Central
– If you have the Printer Toolbox open, you can click the Properties button on the Status page to open
the Properties dialog box. The General, Details, Color Management, and Sharing tabs are not
displayed when you open Properties from the Printer Toolbox.
5 Select the tab with the information to view or change.
– General: Shows the printer name and contains the Print Test Page button (sends a Windows test
page)
– Details: Shows the port to which the printer is connected, and includes the Port Settings button for
setting up a directly networked printer
– Color Management: Allows you to load a color profile (the printer does not include a color profile)
– Sharing: Allows you set up the printer for sharing over a network
– Card: Allows you to set the orientation, rotation, print blocking, print margin, and number of copies
– Graphics: Shows the print ribbon type and allows you to set ribbon initialization (For K ribbons, you
can choose the type of dithering to use. See Set up for monochrome (K) printing for details.)
– Printer Info: Shows the printer type and the resettable card count. Includes the Open Printer
Toolbox button and the About Driver button.
– Mag Stripe: Shows whether a magnetic stripe option is included in the printer. If the printer includes
a magnetic stripe module, you can set the Coercivity and Encoding Format. You can also enable
Magnetic Stripe Escape Compatibility. (See Magnetic Stripe Setup for details.)
– Smart Card: Shows whether a smart card option is included in the printer. There are no settings.
(See Smart card setup for details.)
– To view help for settings, click on the What's This help button and then click the setting.
6 If you make changes, click Apply to save the settings. When you are done, click OK to close the dialog
box. If you do not want to make changes, click Cancel to close the Properties dialog box.
Properties & Printing Preferences for Windows 2000 & XP
The Properties dialog box includes the following: