Overview

PEERNET.DRV CX710 Card Printer Driver allows you to print directly to a VDS CX710, DNP CX710, or Kodak IDX350 ID card printer. The CX710 driver provides complete control over all aspects of card production and is compatible with any application that runs on the supported platforms

Features

Easy Installation
Just run the setup file and your installation is complete because PEERNET.DRV CX710 Card Printer comes as a self-installing executable file and auto-detects the attached ID Card printer.

Printer Pooling
The driver supports printer pooling on Windows 2003, Windows XP, Windows 2000, and Windows NT 4.0 platforms.  The driver does not support printer pooling on Windows 95/98/ME.

Universal Language Support
Enjoy hassle-free multilingualism. The PEERNET.DRV drivers are the only print drivers that offer this benefit. The majority of the print properties and the context-sensitive help automatically adapt to the host system’s language. No translation required.

Technical Specifications

The CX710 printer is controlled through the following document/printer property settings:

Paper Size
The paper size indicates to the driver the type of card stock loaded in the printer and also indicates whether the front of the card is face up or face down.

The allowable values are:

Blank FaceUp
HiCo FaceDown
HiCo FaceUp
LoCo FaceDown
LoCo FaceUp
JIS II FaceDown
JIS II FaceUp
IC FaceDown
IC FaceUp
HiCo + IC FaceDown
HiCo + IC FaceUp
LoCo + IC FaceDown
LoCo + IC FaceUp
JIS II + IC FaceDown
JIS II + IC FaceUp
IC NoProtect FaceDown
IC NoProtect FaceUp
HiCo + IC NoProtect FaceDown
HiCo + IC NoProtect FaceUp
LoCo + IC NoProtect FaceDown
LoCo + IC NoProtect FaceUp
JIS II + IC NoProtect FaceDown
JIS II + IC NoProtect FaceUp

IMPORTANT: The FaceDown and FaceUp specifications in the paper size options do not affect the loading of the card stock in the hopper.  Always load the card stock according to the printer’s manual or the instructions on the inside of the card hopper’s door.

To select the appropriate paper size, follow these rules:

• If the card stock has a magnetic stripe and you want to encode one or more of the magnetic stripes, select a paper size with HiCo, LoCo, or JIS II in its name to describe the type of magnetic stripe on the card.
• If the card stock has a Contact IC Chip or both a Contact IC Chip and a Contactless IC Chip, select a paper size with IC in its name.  Do not select a paper size with IC NoProtect in its name.
• If the card stock is a Contactless IC Chip card with no Contact IC Chip, select a paper size with IC NoProtect in its name.
• If the card stock contains no IC Chip or magnetic stripe, select one of the paper sizes with Blank in its name.

Media Type
The media type indicates to the driver the type of print color process to be performed on the front and back of the card.  The allowable values are:

CMYK
CMY
K
NONE
Front:NONE Back:CMYK
Front:NONE Back:CMY
Front:NONE Back:K
Front:CMYK Back:CMY
Front:CMYK Back:K
Front:CMY Back:CMYK
Front:CMY Back:K
Front:K Back:CMYK
Front:K Back:CMY

When CMYK, CMY, K or NONE is selected, color processing is applied to the front of the card.  When duplex printing is selected, color processing is applied to both the front and back of the card.

When one of the Front:<color> Back:<color> processing options is selected, the front and back colors are processed as selected.

If the card designed is double-sided with CMY color on the front and pure black (K) on the back, select "Front:CMY Back:K".  This option allows the driver to optimally use the printer’s ink ribbon by having it consume only one patch of CMYK ink ribbon for each card printed.

IMPORTANT: For printers with CMYK+Heat Seal ink ribbon, be sure to configure the printer through its control panel and to change the Ink Type to 1 from the factory default of 0.  If the ink ribbon is of type CMYK (no Heat Seal), be sure the printer is configured to have an Ink Type of 0 (the factory default).

When the Ink Type is set to 1 (indicating the current ink ribbon is CMYK+Heat Seal), the print driver will apply the heat seal as required to the front and back of the card during printing.

Duplex Printing
The duplex printing option indicates to the driver whether both sides of the card are to be printed and in which direction to rotate card images.  The allowable values are:

None
Flip along short edge
Flip along long edge

Selecting None, which is the default, turns off duplex printing.  In this mode, the print driver will print a card for each page printed.

Selecting "Flip along short edge" or "Flip along long edge" turns on duplex printing.  In this mode, the print driver will print a card for every two pages printed.

Selecting "Flip along short edge" and "Flip along long edge" rotates the card image in opposite directions. If card images are not rotated in the desired direction, just select the other option.

Paper Source
The paper source indicates to the driver whether the front of the card is rotated 180 degrees and the type of lamination to be applied to the front and back of the card.  The allowable values are:

• No Lamination
• Laminate Front Side
• Laminate Back Side
• Laminate Both Sides
• Rotate 180 – No Lamination
• Rotate 180 – Laminate Front Side
• Rotate 180 – Laminate Back Side
• Rotate 180 – Laminate Both Sides

This option is independent of the duplex printing option.  For example, a card can be printed on one sided but laminated on both sides.

If an image on the front of the card needs to be rotated 180 degrees, select the appropriate paper source with "rotate 180" in its name.

If there is no laminator unit connected to the printer and a paper source with "laminate" in its name is selected, lamination will not be performed.

Copies
The copies option determines the number of duplicate cards produced by the driver.  The maximum number of copies is 250.

Orientation
The orientation controls whether the paper is printed in portrait or landscape.

Magnetic Encoding
Magnetic track data is sent in the form of text strings from the application software to the print driver, along with all of the other printable objects in your card design.  For the print driver to differentiate between magnetic track data and the rest of the printable objects, the magnetic track data strings must be uniquely "tagged."  Specific characters must be added to the magnetic track data for the print driver to know which data to encode, which tracks to encode, when the track data stop and start, and so on.  If these characters are not added to the track data, the text intended for the magnetic track will probably appear as printed text on the card.  To avoid this, track information must be entered as follows.

When entering track data, the "~" character is entered first, followed by the number of the track (1,2, or 3) on which you want to encode the data.  The data to be encoded should then follow.

The first character of this data string must be the track- specific Start Sentinel (SS), and the last character must be the track-specific End Sentinel (ES).  The characters or data between the SS and ES can include all of the valid characters specific to each track.  The number of the characters, however, is limited by each track's maximum character capacity.

When segmenting track data, the appropriate Field Separator (FS) must be used.  

The following table shows the SS, ES, FS, and valid characters defined for each track.

The following example illustrates how track data should be entered for tracks 1, 2, and 3:

1) Sending Data to Track 1

 ~1%JULIE ANDERSON623-85-1253?

2) Sending Data to Track 2

 ~2;01234?

 ~2%01234?

3) Sending Data to Track 3

 ~3;012345?

 ~3%012345?

Note: If the application does not send the text in one print text operation or if the data is not valid, the text will appear on the card.  For example, in Microsoft Word each track data must be on a separate line and must start at the beginning of the line. 

Note 2: For Microsoft Word and other text processors, use "%" as the Start Sentinel for all tracks instead of ";" because using ";" will cause the line to be sent to the driver in parts instead of one complete line.  Make sure to use separate TextOut GDI operations for each track data sent to the driver.

Note 3: JIS II track data is sent as track 3 data.

IC Chip Personalization

IC Chip data is sent in the form of text strings from the application software to the print driver, along with all of the other printable objects in your card design.  For the print driver to differentiate between IC Chip data and the rest of the printable objects, the IC Chip data strings must be uniquely "tagged."  Specific characters must be added to the IC Chip data for the print driver to know which data is to be sent to the IC Chip Personalization extension DLL [Not Included].

When entering IC Chip data, the "~" character is entered first, followed by the number 4  for IC Contact IC Chip data or 5 for IC Contactless IC Chip data, followed by "%", followed by IC Chip data, and ending with "?".

The following example sends Employee# 1234 (a key into the employee database) as the IC Chip data to be used by the IC Contact Chip personalization extension DLL:

~4%1234?

The following example sends Employee# 1234 (a key into the employee database) as the IC Chip data to be used by the IC Contactless Chip personalization extension DLL:

~5%1234?

Resolution

300 dpi

What platforms does the PEERNET.DRV CX710 Card Printer driver support?

Microsoft® Operating Systems

Windows XP	Windows 2003
Home Edition	Server Web Edition
Professional	Server Standard Edition
Tablet PC	Server Enterprise Edition
Media Center	Server Small Business

Windows 2000	Windows NT
Professional	Workstation
Server	Server
Advanced Server	Terminal Server
Terminal Server	Window ME
Datacenter Server	Window 98 & 98 SE
	Window 95

Citrix® MetaFrame® on Windows

MetaFrame 1.8 - 4.0

MetaFrame XP

MetaFrame Access Suite