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IDP card printer accepts no liability for any possible errors herein, nor for any accidental
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Trademarks
SMART-50 is a trademark and IDP is a registered trademark of IDP card printer . Windows is
registered trademarks of Microsoft Corp. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are
marks of their respective holders. SMART-50 Design is a trademark of IDP.
Return Materials Authorization
In order to make a warranty claim you must contact an IDP Reseller. You will be responsible
for packaging the printer for shipment and the costs of shipping and insurance of the printer
from the point of use of the printer to the IDP Reseller. The IDP Reseller will bear the costs of
shipping and insuring the printer from the repair location to the address from which the printer
was shipped.
Before returning any equipment for in-warranty or out-of warranty repair, contact an IDP
Reseller or an IDP Service Center for a Return Materials Authorization (RMA) number.
Repack the equipment in the original packing material and mark the RMA number clearly on
the outside of the box. For more information about RMA or IDP warranty statements, refer to
the Warranty booklet on the quick install guide.
For the user’s convenience, SMART-30 status can be seen through LED and the printer can be
controlled by a button. It takes a power via the 24V adaptor provided with the printer. Using USB
and Network port, it is communicated with the user’s PC
The following shows the outside functional features found on the printer.
ྚ Power switch
ྛ 24V power connector
ྜ Network port
In case there is no
network option, it is
closed.
ྜྷ USB port
1.1.2SMART-50 outside feature.
For the user’s convenience, SMART-50 status can be seen through LCD with LED and the printer
can be controlled by two LED buttons. It takes a power via the 24V adaptor provided with the
printer. Using USB and Network port, it is communicated with the user’s PC
The following shows the outside functional features found on the printer.
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ྙ Top cover open button
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Pic.3 SMART-50 front features
ྚ External contactless
Smartcard encoding
position
ྛ Fan
ྜ Input hopper
ྜྷ LED buttons
ྞ LCD show the process
ྟ Power switch
ྠ 24V power connector
ྡ Network port
In case there is no
network option, it is
closed.
ྡྷ USB port
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There are five models in SMART-50 card printer series such as SMART-50S, SMART-50D, SMART50L.
SMART-50S (Pic.5) is the standard card printer. It can be printed in single side with the encoding. This
manual is prepared based on SMART-50S.
SMART-50D (Pic.6) have a flipper which can enable to print in both side. SMART-50D can print the both
side of the card with the encoding.
SMART-50L (Pic.7) produces long-life cards for ID and access control with customizable security features
and ability to print smart cards. To cater to expanding requirement in card security , SMART-50L’s
DLW(Direct to Laminating in a Wink) technology provides the most stable & fast laminating solutions.
Pic.5 SMART-50SPic.6 SMART-50D
Pic.7 SMART-50L
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1.2 Printer inside features
1.2.1SMART-30 inside feature.
In SMART-30 printer, the ribbon is installed by a ribbon cartridge which can be used
semipermanently. The following shows the inside functional features found on your SMART-30
printer.
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Pic.8 SMART-30 Inside features
ྙ Output hopper(Stacker)
Collect the printed card and/or encoded cards.
ྚ Input hopper
Load the cards for printing.
ྛ Card thickness control lever
Adjust the cards thickness.
ྜ Ribbon cartridge
Install the ribbon and the disposable cleaning roller.
ྜྷ Thermal Print Head
This enables the cards to be printed.
(Caution
with fingers or a sharp metal object to avoid degrading print quality or damaging printer head
permanently.)
!: This is very hot after printing. Do not contact the surface of the Thermal Print Head
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1.2.2SMART-50 inside feature.
In SMART-50 printer, the ribbon is installed by a ribbon cartridge which can be used
semipermanently. The following shows the inside functional features found on your SMART-50
printer.
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Pic.9 SMART-50 Inside features
ྚ Output hopper(Stacker)
Collect the printed card and/or encoded cards.
ྚ Input hopper
Load the cards for printing.
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ྙ Output hopper
ྚ Input hopper
ྛ Card thickness
control lever
ྜ Ribbon cartridge
ྜྷ Thermal Print Head
ྞ External contactless
encoder
ྛ Card thickness control lever
Adjust the cards thickness.
ྜ Ribbon cartridge
Install the ribbon and the disposable cleaning roller.
ྜྷ Thermal Print Head
This enables the cards to be printed.
(Caution
with fingers or a sharp metal object to avoid degrading print quality or damaging printer head
permanently.)
ྞ External contactless encoder
Contactless smartcard encoder.
!: This is very hot after printing. Do not contact the surface of the Thermal Print Head
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1.3 Ribbon cartridge features
ྙ Ribbon cartridge
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ྚ Take up parts
ྛ Supply parts
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Pic.10 Ribbon cartridge features
ྙ Ribbon cartridge
-. Install a ribbon and a disposable cleaning roller provided with the ribbon.
-. In the case of SMART-30 R model, a ribbon is not used, and a disposable cleaning
roller is only installed and used.
-. This semi-permanent ribbon cartridge is a component of the printer. Printer does not operate
if it is broken or damaged. In this case, please contact printer reseller.
ྚ ྛ Take up & Supply parts
-. Ribbon is wrapped to the supply parts as the Pic. 10. It should be installed as the Pic.10.
ྜ Disposable cleaning roller
-. It removes dust on the surface of card to improve print quality before the card is printed.
It should be changed together with the ribbon.
-. After installing the disposable cleaning roller to the ribbon cartridge, peel off the protective
film.
-. It is provided with the ribbon.
-. In the case of SMART-30 R model, you have to purchase the disposable cleaning roller
from the reseller.
ྜ Disposable cleaning
roller
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1.4 LCD panel display & button operation
SMART-50 printer can show the real-time process status to user. SMART-30’s status is displayed in windows tray.
NoLCD Display
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2
3
Ver X.XX…
Initialize…
INIT Error xx
<Replay Replay>
Smart
Auto Ribbon Set
LEDButton
LeftRightLeftRight
OnOnInitializingInitializing with the indication of SMART-50 firmware version
BlinkingBlinkingRepeatRepeatError during initializing
OnOnAutomatic ribbon setting
StateDescription
Showing error no. in case of failure of normal initializing while
SMART-50 is initialized. (Refer to page13). Press any keys for reinitializing process.
It optimizes the ribbon position setting automatically in case of the
replacement of color ribbon(YMCKO or YMCKOK).
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5
6
7
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9
10
11
Auto Ribbon Set
Fail!!!!
Auto Ribbon Set
Color=xxx(xxx)
SMART
System Ready
Wait.. 1”C
Temperature=xxx
Smart
Unlock Please..
Smart
Verify your PC
Ribbon Balance
Type / Remains
SMART
Printing!
BlinkingBlinking
BlinkingBlinking
Installed
OnOn
BlinkingBlinking
OnOnPrinter is locked
OnOnPC is not authenticated
OnOnCard out
OnOnPrintingUnder printing.
ribbon
information
Soft power
ON/OFF
Fail to optimize the
ribbon setting
Fail to optimize the
ribbon setting and
display the ribbon’s color
value
Standby
Printer’s operating
temperature is under
1
Display the ribbon type
and remains
Display these messages when the auto ribbon setting is failed and
it shows the ribbon detecting level.
Printer is ready for printing and you can check the installed ribbon
information by pressing the left button. Printer turns off by pressing
the right button. Printer turns on by pressing the right button when it
turns off.
Shown it when printer’s operating temperature falls down under
1. Normal operating temperature is 15~35.
Physical key option is active using the CardPrinterSetup utility and
it shows the locked state. Unable to print.
Authentication option is active using the CardPrinterSetup utility.
When use the printer with an unauthenticated PC, it is shown.
Printer is not working.
Display the installed ribbon’s type and the remains. It can be shown
by pressing the left LED button on the system ready mode.
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NoLCD Display
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13
14
15
SMART
Mag R/W
Spool Error!
<-Any Key Push->
Print Error xx
<Replay Cancel>
Top Cover Open
<-Card Moving ->
LEDButton
LeftRightLeftRight
OnOn
BlinkingBlinking
BlinkingBlinkingRepeat
BlinkingBlinking
Cancel &
Initialize
Move a
card to the
back side
Cancel &
Initialize
Cancel &
Initialize
Moveacard
to the front
side
StateDescription
Reading or writing the
Magnetic stripe
Printingdataisnot
transmitted properly
Error in printing or
moving a card
Top cover open
Magnetic encoder is reading or writing the magnetic stripe
information.
Shown it when error occurs in a printing data transmission. Press
any keys to delete the spooled data and to return the ready state.
Error in the printing or the transmission. Retry by pressing the left
button or cancel the command by pressing the right button.
Top cover is open. The card in the printer can be moved by
pressing the left or right LED button. If press both buttons at the
same time, the print head will be up and down. (Flipper will be flip
over if it is installed)
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21
22
Check Please..
Ribbon Not Found
Check Please..
Check Please..
TPH Not Found
Print Error xx
Top Cover Open
Card Out Error
<Replay Cancel>
Board Test Mode
Ribbon Zero
SMART
Download...
Wait
BlinkingBlinking
BlinkingBlinking
BlinkingBlinking
BlinkingBlinking
BlinkingBlinkingRepeat
OnOnFirmware downloading
Ribbon
redetecting
Ribbon
redetecting
Ribbon
redetecting
Ribbon
redetecting
Cancel &
Initialize
There is no ribbon in the
printer or fail to detect
The installed ribbon has
run out
Thermal Print head is not
installed
Fail to move the card out
(Check the card in the
printer)
Fail to move the card out
(Check the card in the
printer)
Test mode state
Table1 Status display
Fail to detect the ribbon. Check the ribbon installed state. If there
is no ribbon, install the ribbon. If there is a ribbon, pull out it and
install again. Press the left or right button to redetect the ribbon.
It is displayed when the installed ribbon is all used up. Replace
with new ribbon. Press the left or right button to redetect the
ribbon.
Thermal Print Head is not installed or there is a misconnection of
the cable. Open the top cover to check the print head installed
state or turn off the printer and check the cable connecting state.
The card in the printer will be come out when the initialization o r
top cover close. If it is not come out, this message will be
displayed. Remove the card and close the top cover.
After an error occurs in printing, the error card is not come out
even though "Replay" or "Cancel" button is pressed.
The printer is downloading the firmware. Do not turn off the power
until it is rebooting. It takes about 20 seconds.
Test mode which can test the sensors or motors of the printer.
User can set the LED status.
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Description of printer error code
Error codeDescription
0Card in error
1Card move center error
2Card out error
3Card move magnetic error
4Card move contact encoder error
5Card move contactless encoder error
6Card move error from the printer to the flipper
7Card move error form the flipper to the printer
8Print head up error
9Print head down error
10IC Contactor up
11IC Contactor down
12Flipper top error
13Flipper bottom error
14Error in printing
15Magnetic stripe read/write error
16Ribbon search error
17Ribbon move error
18No print head installed
19Print head overheating
20No ribbon
21Printing data error
22Card back out error
23Magnetic data erasing error
24Printer password is not correct
25Magnetic stripe track 1 read error
26Magnetic stripe track 2 read error
27Magnetic stripe track 3 read error
28Printer locked state
29Printer spool full state
30No defined
31No defined
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Description of laminator error code
Error codeDescription
0Laminator head up error
2Laminator head down error
4Laminator card in error
6Laminator card move error
8Laminator card front out error
9Laminator card rear out error
10Flipper error
13Error while laminating
15Laminator initializing error
16Laminator film zero error
17Laminator film search error
31No laminating film
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2. Printer installation
2.1. Fitting the ribbon
Before printing, prepare the related items such as a card, a ribbon and a cleaning roller. In this
section we invite you to know the proper method of installing the ribbon and the cleaning roller
into the printer. In the case of SMRT RW model, the ribbon is no needed so skip 2.1.4 and
2.1.5 process.
2.1.1. Turn off the printer
2.1.2. Open the printer top cover by
pressingthetopcoveropen
button.
Pic.11 Top Cover open
Pic.12 Take out the ribbon cartridge
2.1.3. Take out the ribbon cartridge.
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Pic.13 Loading the ribbon 1
Install a
bon into the ribbon
2.1.4.
rib
cartridge as left Pic. 13.
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Pic.14 Loading the ribbon 2
Pic.15 Installing the cleaning roller
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2.1.5. Insert the supply side of the ribbon
to no.1 hole and press the opposite
(no.2). Insert the take-up side of the
ribbon same method to no.3 and
no.4. After inserting, tighten the
ribbon.
(Caution! If the ribbon is not tightened, a
rolling up error might be happened.)
2.1.6. Install the disposable cleaning
roller to the ribbon cartridge.
Pic.16 Peeling the protective wrapper
2.1.7. Peel the protective wrapper from
the cleaning roller.
After removing the protective wrapper, the
cleaning roller should be kept clean from
fingerprints, dust and foreign substances to
avoid contamination because it is adhesive.
(Caution! Do not use without peeling off the
protective wrapper because the cleaning
roller cannot perform its function.)
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Pic.17 Installing the ribbon cartridge
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2.1.8. Install the ribbon cartridge into the
printer after installing the ribbon
withacleaningrollertothe
cartridge.
2.1.9. Close the top cove
(If it is not closed properly, check the installation
state of the ribbon cartridge.)
Pic.18 Close Top Cover
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2.2. Loading the cards
This section shows how to load the plastic cards.
Pic.19 Adjusting the card thickness lever
2.2.1. Open the input hoppercover.
2.2.2. Adjust the card thickness with the
card thickness control lever.
(Caution! If the adjustment is not correct, it will
make some error. Use the type of cards in the
specification of this manual. Always keep the
card surface clean state.)
2.2.4. To separate cards from each other,
push a stack of c ards back and
forth to an angle about 45 degrees
vertically.
(Staticchargemakescardsstuckwith
significant adhesive force. These cards must be
physically separated from each other before
inserted into the feeder. If not separated,
feeding or printing problems may occur.)
Pic.20 Preparing the card 1
Pic.21 Preparing the card 2
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Pic.22 Loading the cards 1
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2.2.5. Stand the stack of cards vertically
after separating.
2.2.6. Load the cards on the input hoppe
properlyandclosethehoppe
cover.
Pic.23 Loading the cards 2
Pic.24 Loading the cards 3
2.2.7. When insert each one card, insert
the card to the end as the Pic. 24
and 25.
Pic.25 Loading the cards 4
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2.3. The withdrawal of printed cards.
Printed cards are passed out to the stacker of rear bottom side of SMART printer. SMART-30’s stacker
can be divided as following image.
Pic.26 SMART-30 Stacker
SMART-50’s stacker sticks out of the device so you can withdraw the printed
cards easily.
Pic.27 SMART-50 Stacker
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2.4. Driver installation (Windows XP, 2000, 2003)
STEP 1:
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2.4.1. Insert the installation CD provided
with the printer.
2.4.2. Choose the language and click
“Driver Install”.
Pic.28 Install XP printer driver 1
2.4.3.
If the printer is connected to the PC
and turned on, turn off the power o
the printer.
Click “Next”. The existing installed
printer driver will be removed.
Pic.29 Install XP printer driver 2
Pic.30 Install XP printer driver 3
If the printer driver is already installed, it will
be removed automatically but it may take
times.
Choose the language as shown on the Pic.29
and 27.
Pic.31 Install XP print driver 4
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Pic.32 Install XP print driver 5
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STEP 2:
Click“Next”toreadythe
installation of the printer driver.
2.4.5. If there is a pop-up window for the
softwareinstallation,click
“Continue Anyway”.
Pic.33 Install XP print driver 6
Pic.34 Install XP printer driver 7
2.4.6. STEP 3:
Click “Next” to use USB port.
Click “TCP/IP Network port” to use
the printer as network printer and
choose the printer as shown on the
Pic.34.
(If there is no information on the window fo
the network printer list, it means that the
printer is not connected to the network. Check
“2.5 Network Printer” section.)
Pic.35 Install XP printer driver 8
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Pic.36 Install XP printer driver 9
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2.4.7. Please connect a power supplyto
the printer.
(For the network printer, refer to “2.5 Network
Printer” section.)
Pic.37 Install XP printer driver 10
2.4.8.
onnect USB cable provided
with the printer to PC and the
printer.
(For the network printer, refer to “2.5 Network
Printer” section.)