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980006-001 Rev. A Zebra P630i & P640i Card Printer Service Manual 279
APPENDIX F
Printer Pooling
Setting Up the Printers Individually
• For illustration, we will establish a pool of three printers •
Step 1. Install and setup the three printers. The printers can have any names of your
choosing: here we will name them Zebra P640i 1, Zebra P640i 2, Zebra P640i 3,
and we will assume they are attached to ports ATLUSB001, ATLUSB002,
ATLUSB003, respectively.
Step 2. Before proceeding to pool the printers, test them individually, and be sure they are
configured similarly. Specifically, check the following:
• Ribbon panel configuration (ribbon type, and what prints on which side of
the card)
• Mag encoding configuration
• Black extraction configuration (if applicable)
Note • In the P640i, many of the configuration variables are stored in the printer itself,
unlike the typical printer as defined by Microsoft. All pooled P640i printers must be set
up similarly.