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Ultra Electronics Ltd PRINTER INSTALLATION Welcome to Magicard Thank you for choosing the Magicard Enduro printer as your secure ID card printer. Before setting up your Enduro printer using the Ultra Driver CD–ROM, please follow the simple steps in this guide on installing your printer. This guide helps you make your printing experience more enjoyable and secure. Unpacking Please ensure you have all the items listed before you start installation. 1. Enduro Printer 2. Hopper and Stacker 3.
Ultra Electronics Ltd IMPORTANT Do not connect to USB yet. It is important to install the Ultra driver CDROM first, before connecting the USB cable between your PC and Enduro printer.
Ultra Electronics Ltd Hopper & Stacker HOPPER: Insert the hopper into the aperture at the back of the printer and click into place. Always fan the cards to ensure the cards are not sticking together before inserting into the hopper, and handle the cards carefully to keep the surfaces clean, as finger marks can affect the print quality. STACKER: Insert the stacker into the aperture in the front panel and click into place. The stacker can hold up to 30, 20 to 40mil (xxmm to xxmm) thick cards.
Ultra Electronics Ltd Install the dye film • Remove dye film packaging. • Place the loaded spool into the rear slots and the take-up spool into the front slots. • Close the printer. Plug power cable into the printer Select the adapter for your region and connect to power supply unit. Plug in and connect to printer which will automatically switch on. Display should show the model and “Soft button” options. IMPORTANT: Please do not connect the USB until the CDROM has been installed.
Ultra Electronics Ltd Load the Driver CD in to your PC 1. Load the driver CD ROM into the PC. Note : If the CD does not run automatically, click the start button, then click on “run”. Type “D:\autorun”, where D is the drive letter for your CD drive, then press the return key. 2. Now follow the on screen instructions to install the printer driver. 3. On completion of installation, connect your Enduro printer to the PC with the USB cable. Now your Enduro is ready to print.
Ultra Electronics Ltd USING YOUR ENDURO PRINTER Printer Parts 1. Lid opening latch 2. Thermal print head 3. Card cleaning roller 4. LCD display screen 5. Function buttons 6. Hand feed/cleaning card entry 7. 30 card capacity stacker 8. 100 card capacity hopper 9. USB port 10.
Ultra Electronics Ltd Front Display Panel The Enduro front panel has a text display and 2 push buttons. These buttons act as ‘soft’ buttons – i.e. their function varies depending on the text displayed in the square brackets ( [_ _ _ _ ] ) immediately above each button. Text Display Soft Button Soft Button Hand Feed and Cleaning Card Slot The menu options for the soft buttons are explained in the following pages ……… Off button Switches the printer OFF.
Ultra Electronics Ltd Menu options Press the ‘Menu’ button …… The first menu option will be displayed. Press the ‘Next’ button to step through each option in the menu… The following menu options will be displayed: 1 of 6 – Clean rollers 2 of 6 – Test card 3 of 6 – Info …. 4 of 6 – Hand Feed ...
Ultra Electronics Ltd Cleaning the rollers IMPORTANT: To prevent the cards slipping on the rollers during printing, we recommend that you clean your printer using a cleaning card each time you replace the dye-film. For detailed instructions on how to clean your printer please turn to pages xx to xx Select [Ok] on this option to if you wish to verify the operation of the printer. Test card You will be asked to confirm that you wish to print a test card.
Ultra Electronics Ltd Dye-Film Options • MA300YMCKO dye-film is the appropriate choice for colour printing with both Enduro and Enduro Duo printers. • MA250YMCKOK dye-film, for the Enduro Duo models only, is more economic when printing in colour on the front side and black on the rear. • MA1000K & MA600KO dye-film – where cost is critical, monochrome printing is a fraction of the cost of colour printing.
Ultra Electronics Ltd CARDS Card Material Not all white plastic cards are the same. For best image quality always use high quality grade PVC cards. Pure PVC card stock or laminated PVC/polyester cards are available. The latter are more durable and better suited to heavy use and heat lamination when required. For access control and smart card applications, your Dealer should provide the appropriate type for “direct to card” printing.
Ultra Electronics Ltd Other Card Types. Self-Adhesive Cards. We recommend only self adhesive cards supplied by Ultra Electronics via your Magicard dealership. There are many different types of self-adhesive cards. Thorough investigation and testing has shown that poorer quality or incorrect card types will cause problems in the printer. These problems range from poor image quality, failure to feed from the card hopper and dye-film being cut through to cards getting jammed in the roller mechanism.
Ultra Electronics Ltd SECTION 5 SINGLE / DOUBLE-SIDED UPGRADE. The Magicard Enduro printer can be purchased in single (Enduro) or double-sided (Enduro Duo) format. If you choose the Enduro model you can purchase an upgrade from Magicard. This will change the Enduro to and Enduro Duo in the convenience of your office allowing you to print double-sided. No tools are required for this upgrade. Simply drop the dye film upgrade into the machine. 1. Purchase the upgrade kit from Magicard Sales. 2.
Ultra Electronics Ltd SECTION 7 SECTION 7.1 CLEANING THE PRINTER. CLEANING IS IMPORTANT The most important thing you can do to ensure card print quality and the ongoing reliable operation of your printer is to perform regular cleaning cycles to remove dust and debris from the print rollers. Plastic cards attract dust. Dust then gets ‘printed’ into the card surface causing unsightly blemishes and possible damage to the print head.
Ultra Electronics Ltd SECTION 7.3 CLEANING THE PRINTER ROLLERS Step 1: Using the Cleaning Card. We recommend that you clean your printer using a cleaning card after every 300 prints or each time you replace the dyefilm. You should do this more often if you print only a few cards a day. 1. Open the lid and remove the dye film, leave the lid open. 2. Take a new cleaning card from its packet and insert it into the front card feed slot. 3. Press the left button once to display the cleaning mode. 4.
Ultra Electronics Ltd SECTION 7.4 REPLACING THE CLEANING ROLLER Step 2 Fitting a new Cleaning Roller. There is a cleaning cassette inside the printer which holds a cleaning roller. We recommend that this roller is replaced after every 1000 prints, or sooner if it looks dirty. You re-use the cassette, and you replace the roller within it. 1. Open the printer lid and remove the used dye film. Pull out the used cleaning spool. 1 2. Remove the central roller bar 3.
Ultra Electronics Ltd SECTION 7.5 CLEANING THE PRINT HEAD. Step 3 Cleaning the Print Head. The print head should be cleaned if any lines or discolorations are seen on printed cards. It is also a good idea to clean the print head when you replace the ribbon. 1. Use the special print head cleaning pen from your Magicard printer cleaning kit. See Section 6.1 ‘Cleaning Supplies’. 2. Open the printer and draw the pen several times across the complete length of the print head.
Ultra Electronics Ltd SECTION 8 MAGICARD ENDURO DRIVER. Endura and Enduro Duo use the new “UltraDriver”. This driver is for use on the following operating systems only: Windows 2000 & Windows XP Windows 2003 server. Windows Vista. Please Note: Windows 3.11, 95, 98, ME, and NT are not supported. SECTION 8.1 INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS FOR WINDOWS 2000 / XP / 2003 SERVER. Ensure the printer is powered off. Load the driver CD ROM into the PC you have connected to the printer.
Ultra Electronics Ltd Ensure the printer is switched on and “Ready” is shown on the Enduro printer display. Connect the printer. Windows 2000 / XP / 2003 Server view Windows Vista NOTE If the computer you are configuring for a USB connection to the Magicard printer has at some time run another manufacturer’s printer (e.g. Eltron C-Series printer), a Windows file necessary for the Magicard installation could be missing.
Ultra Electronics Ltd SECTION 8.2 UN-INSTALLING THE DRIVER FOR WINDOWS 2000 / XP / 2003 SERVER. Ensure the printer is disconnected.
Ultra Electronics Ltd SECTION 8.3 . UN-INSTALLING THE DRIVER FOR WINDOWS VISTA. Ensure the printer is disconnected. i or j Choose the Windows Logo button followed by “Control Panel” Category view Category View choose “Uninstall a program......” Classic view Classic View choose “Program and Features......
Ultra Electronics Ltd SECTION 8.4 DRIVER DESCRIPTION USING WINDOWS 2000 / XP / 2003 SERVER To access the printer settings On the PC, go to “Start” >> “Printers and Faxes” Right mouse click on the Magicard Enduro printer and select the “Printing Preferences…” option. Right Click SECTION 8.
Ultra Electronics Ltd The Printer tab Shows which model of printer you are using by displaying a picture and the model name. The “Printer” tab will display a diagram showing you which card dimensions are compatible with your printer. Additional options are page size control, number of copies of a document being printed, printer status and the driver version. Windows 2000 / XP / 2003 Server view Windows Vista Duplex Printing Use the Duplex Options for selecting single or double sided printing.
Ultra Electronics Ltd Printing Options. Within Printing Options there are two types of card format that can be selected, either Edge to Edge or White border, with Edge to Edge the printer will print a card design over the full surface of the card, whereas White Border will leave a small white border around all four edges of the card, select the option which is most desirable.
Ultra Electronics Ltd Colour Format There is a small picture of two parrots, this shows the effects the selected colour format will have on the printed images’; if the picture of the parrots is in colour you have your printer setup to print full colour images, if the parrots are black and white then your printer is setup to print in monochrome only.
Ultra Electronics Ltd Black Resin Options Halftoning (Monochrome Only) If printing with Monochrome dye-film ribbon, you first must select the Monochrome (K Only) option in the Card Front/Card Back tab; this enables these Halftoning options. There are two Halftoning options available – they determine how the printer driver translates colour images into black and white.
Ultra Electronics Ltd HoloKote™ When enabled, an anti-copying watermark is printed across the entire card surface in a 4 x 6 grid (24 evenly spaced icons that are 158 x 149 pixels in size). This watermark becomes visible when the card is viewed at an angle. The patented HoloKote™ anti-forgery card protection eliminates the threat from fake IDs and is standard on all Enduro & Enduro Duo models. There is no additional cost involved in printing HoloKote cards.
Ultra Electronics Ltd Security Options There are four integral HoloKote™ designs embedded into the Driver. They are chosen from the “Security Options” Menu within the “Card Front and Card Back Tab”. SecureShield™. This option should only be enabled if you use a laminator in conjunction with your regular printer, if you do not use a laminator then you should leave this option disabled.
Ultra Electronics Ltd Overcoat Options By default the printer will print the transparent protective overcoat layer over the entire surface area of the card. The Overcoat Options window provides advanced controls for customising the size and position of the area covered, and to insert ‘holes’ (of no overcoat) into that overcoat area. Overcoat Area Selection When enabled, the User Defined option gives access to the overcoat area definition window; click on the ‘Define’ Button to access these options.
Ultra Electronics Ltd Advanced Tab The Advanced Tab allows the customization of some of the advanced technical settings related to colour correctness and image positioning on the printed card. Colour Control The Colour Correction options provide software ‘Gamma Curves’ to correct for different characteristics of thermal printheads and dye-films. Three choices are available - None, Gamma 1, and Gamma 2.
Ultra Electronics Ltd Print Head Power These options provide control over the degree of printhead ‘heating’ power applied to the cards and dye-film ribbon during the printing process. Yellow, Magenta, Cyan (YMC). An increase or decrease in the YMC Power will result in an increase or decrease in the colour density – images will be darkened or lightened. Black Resin. An increase or decrease in the Black Resin Power will result in an increase or decrease in the ‘boldness’ of black text and barcodes. Overcoat.
Ultra Electronics Ltd Image Position The Image Position options enable the user to make small adjustments to the position of the printed image on the plastic cards - this can be useful for eliminating unwanted white borders. All adjustments are with reference to the card viewed in landscape. Up/Down Slider moved upwards: the image will move upwards on the card. Slider moved downwards: the image will move downwards. The adjustment is calibrated to: 12 steps = 1mm (approx).
Ultra Electronics Ltd The Save & Restore Tab The Save & Restore Tab is used to save your driver settings to a file, restore the settings from a file, or restore the settings to the original defaults.
