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Ultra Electronics Card Systems Quick Start Guide
MAGICARD 300 Color Printer
MAGICARD 300
MAGICARD 300plus
MAGICARD Sprinter
(inc. Mag Encoding options)
Quick Start Guide
Printer/Software Setup
Iss. 03 Dec 97
3461-22-02
Stock No. M9003-728
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Quick Start Guide Ultra Electronics Card Systems Setting up your MAGICARD Color Printer takes just three easy steps: 1. Unpack and install the printer A Preparing a Location for the Printer B Removing the Printer from the Box C Checking the Package Contents D Install the Dye Film E Load the Plastic Cards F Connect the Printer to a Power Supply G Test the Printer Operation H Install the Parallel Interface Cable and Ultra Secure Key 2. Load the supplied WINDOWS Driver software. Ix Install the WIN
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Quick Start Guide Ultra Electronics Card Systems Preparing a Location for the Printer A • A clean, level surface. • Adequate space for: - opening the Card Collection Door - opening the Top Cover - cable access at the rear. - allowance for air circulation. • An adequately ventilated room. Location Requirements for your printer: Page 4 MAGICARD Color Printer
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Ultra Electronics Card Systems Quick Start Guide • An adequate power supply. • Ambient temperature +10 to +30 deg C. • Relative Humidity 20/70% RH. • Protection from direct sunlight and Card Collection Door Top Cover chemicals. • Protection from abrupt temperature changes. MAGICARD Color Printer Page 5
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Quick Start Guide Ultra Electronics Card Systems Removing the Printer B B from the Box 2 1 Place on a smooth, level table and remove the polyethylene container. Carefully open the box and remove any accessories. 3 Open the front door and remove the metal shipping clip from the chassis. Page 6 MAGICARD Color Printer
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Ultra Electronics Card Systems Quick Start Guide Checking the Package Contents C C Locate each item as listed below: 2 1 The MagiCard Color Printer The Card Cassette 3 4 A Roll of Dye Film and a Take-up Core (Only supplied as standard with certain Models) A Power Cord with Molded Plug for your Country MAGICARD Color Printer Page 7
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Quick Start Guide Ultra Electronics Card Systems 5 6 Envelope containing 5 Cleaning Cards and 1 Thermal Printhead Cleaning Pen. Envelope containing this Quick Start Guide and the PrintMAGIC WINDOWS Driver 3.5" floppy disk. Page 8 MAGICARD Color Printer
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Ultra Electronics Card Systems Quick Start Guide Install the Dye Film D 1 2 Open the Printer Cover by lifting the "Dzus" fastener ring and turning a quarter turn anti-clockwise. Remove the Dye Film carrier. Open the Dye Film package. Fit the dye film on the lower boss, observing the correct orientation of the dye film. 3 Fit the empty take-up core on the upper boss, observing the correct orientation of the notches on the Take-up Core. Replace the Film Carrier MAGICARD Color Printer Page 9
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Quick Start Guide Ultra Electronics Card Systems 5 4 Turn the 'Dzus' Fastener 1/4 turn Manually turn the Spur Gear until the clockwise to lock in place. Lay the ring slots on the core engage with the lugs. flat against the panel 6 Pull about 6" of dye film off the roll of dye film, observing that it should be coming off the top of the roll, as per the label illustrations. Page 10 MAGICARD Color Printer
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Ultra Electronics Card Systems Quick Start Guide 8 7 Fasten the end of the dye film onto the Avoid touching the tip of the thermal Take-up Core with a small piece of printhead with your hands. adhesive tape, and wind on a couple of Feed the leading edge of the dye film turns. Avoid creasing of the dye film and over the tip of the Thermal Printhead and position it centrally on the core. beneath the two guide bars, where fitted. (Refer to the diagram on the side). MAGICARD Color Printer Page 11
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Quick Start Guide Ultra Electronics Card Systems Load the Plastic Cards E 2 1 Flex a stack of plastic cards, to make sure they are not 'stuck' together. Avoid touching the surfaces to be printed. Drop the cards flat down into the plastic Cassette, side to be printed uppermost, 3a mag stripe to the left and facing down (if used). 3b Remove the 'tacky' roller before each batch of 100 cards, by putting your fingers beneath it and "snapping" out the left hand end of the roller. Remove surface dust b
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Ultra Electronics Card Systems Quick Start Guide 5 5 4 Close the Printer Cover and secure the front latch. Install the Cassette into the Printer. 6 Close the Printer Door MAGICARD Color Printer Page 13
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Quick Start Guide Ultra Electronics Card Systems Connect the Printer to a Power Supply F 2 1 Locate the Mains Voltage Selector Locate the ON/OFF Switch and check Switch on the rear panel and check that it that it is in the OFF position. is correct for your country - select 115V or 230V. 4 3 Switch ON. The indicators should all flash and the motors run briefly. Finally, the POWER ON and ON LINE will remain Plug in the Power Cord. Plug the other ON. end into a Power Supply socket. Page 14 MAGICAR
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Ultra Electronics Card Systems Quick Start Guide Test the Printer Operation G Print an Internally-Generated Test Card to make sure your printer is working correctly: 1 2 It will take a few seconds before printing commences. When finished, a Test Card will be ejected from the aperture in the Front Panel. At the rear of the printer, locate the TEST Push-button. This is located in the rear 3 panel, just above the Centronics parallel interface connector. In early models, it may be located through a
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Quick Start Guide Ultra Electronics Card Systems the internal software version is printed on the test card. Page 16 MAGICARD Color Printer
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Ultra Electronics Card Systems Quick Start Guide Install the parallel Interface Cable and Ultra Secure Key H 1 2 Plug a good quality, screened Centronics Interface cable into this socket and secure the wire latches. Plug the other end into the Printer connector of your PC (LPT1 or LPT2) Switch the printer OFF. Locate the Parallel Interface connector on the rear panel. 3 Note the position for the Ultra Secure Key at the rear of the Magicard Printer. MAGICARD Color Printer Page 17
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Quick Start Guide Ultra Electronics Card Systems Install the WINDOWS Driver Ix Procedure to be followed if your PC uses WINDOWS 3.1 or 3.11.: • Start WINDOWS and in the MAIN group, select and open the Control Panel window: • Select and open the PRINTERS icon: Page 18 MAGICARD Color Printer
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Ultra Electronics Card Systems Quick Start Guide • Select the ADD>> button, the List of Printers will appear. In the List of Printers, select Install Unlisted or Updated Printer: Select the Install..... button. • A dialog box appears, instructing you to Insert unlisted, updated or vendor-provided printer driver disk in: Drive A:\ MAGICARD Color Printer Page 19
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Quick Start Guide Ultra Electronics Card Systems • Insert the PrintMAGIC WINDOWS Driver Disk into the floppy disk drive A. Select the OK button: • Another dialog window appears, listing the PrintMagic MAGICARD Printer Driver. Select the PrintMagic Printer. Select the OK button: Page 20 MAGICARD Color Printer
