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XPS Card Printer Installation and User Guide 154
How to Set the Print Area
The XPS Card Printer Driver can prevent printing and topcoat on specific areas of the card. By
default, the entire side of the card is printed. If your cards include a magnetic stripe, a smart
card chip, or other area, define the area to block printing.
For custom print areas, see How to Use Blocking Escapes. For standard areas, follow these steps:
1. Open Printing Preferences from the Start menu. See
Open Printing Preferences for the steps to follow.
2. Click the Print Area Tab.
3. For the side of the card with the non-printing area,
click the "Print and topcoat entire side of card except"
list and choose the area.
4. For the example shown, do not print the ISO 3-Track
Magnetic Stripe area on the back of the card. (Text
shown on the back is formatted with a mag stripe font
and will be encoded.)
5. Click Apply to save the setting, and then click Close.
6. Send the card to print.
The back of the completed card looks like this:
Notice the narrow white
area above and below
the magnetic stripe. The
non-printing area is
slightly larger than the
feature, in this case the
magnetic stripe.