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PRIMA DRIVER MANUAL

Welcome to the new high performance printer driver for the IDX380 printer. This manual will help you to install, set up and handle the driver to get the best results for your prints.

The driver runs on all 32 bit Windows platforms and was successfully tested under Windows 98 ME, Windows 2000 and the new Windows XP professional.

The driver was designed for best performance and stability. Additional, all the needed features referring to the different used card materials, colour ribbons etc., are included.

All setting parameters can be controlled by the printer driver settings from the PC.

Table of contents

TECHNICAL SUPPORT ..................................................................................................................3

LEGAL AND COPYRIGHT INFORMATION..............................................................................3

PRINTER INSTALLATION ............................................................................................................3

REPARATION OF

WINDOWS ME INSTALLATION ..................................................................................................3

WINDOWS 2000 PROFESSIONAL AND XP PROFESSIONAL INSTALLATION ................4

PC .........................................................................................................................3

RIVER SET-UP FOR SINGLE PRINTER

RIVER SET-UP FOR SEVERAL PRINTERS

PRINTER POOLING ......................................................................................................................10

IDX380 P

Retransfer ...................................................................................................................................36

Bend Remedy ..............................................................................................................................36

Card Size ....................................................................................................................................37

Buzzer .........................................................................................................................................37

Color Ink ....................................................................................................................................37

Special Ink ..................................................................................................................................37

MG..............................................................................................................................................37

Power Saving..............................................................................................................................37

Managing and operations ..........................................................................................................38

XTERNAL DEVICES

RINTER PASSWORD

DVANCED

ROPERTIES

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TROUBLE SHOOTING

PGRADING YOUR PRINTER DRIVER FROM A PREVIOUS VERSION

NOWN BUGS AND LIMITATIONS

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Technical Support

For technical assistance, please contact your printer vendor.

Legal and Copyright Information

This product is provided on an “as is” basis, without any other warranties, or conditions, express or implied, including but not limited to warranties of merchantable quality, merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose, or those arising by law, statute, usage of trade or course of dealing. The entire risk as to the results and performance of the Software is assumed by you. Neither we nor our dealers or suppliers shall have any liability to you or any other person or entity for any indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages whatsoever, including but not limited to loss of revenue or profit, lost or damaged data or other commercial or economic loss, even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages or they are foreseeable; or for claims by a third party. Our maximum aggregate liability to you, and that of our dealers and suppliers, shall not exceed the amount paid by you for the Product. Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of liability for consequential or incidental damages so the above limitation may not apply to you. Copyright © 1996-2003 ImageWare Systems, Inc. All rights reserved.

Printer Installation

Preparation of PC

1. Follow the installation instructions of the printer manual

2. Turn off the PC and the printers. Remove the power cable from all hardware and the connection cables between PC and printer

3. Install the SCSI card in your PC as described by the manufacturer´s manual

4. After the card is installed, turn on the PC

5. After rebooting the machine, Windows should detect a new hardware device. Follow now the installation wizard or install the needed driver to your machine manually. After the installation is finished, reboot the machine.

6. Run the ASPI check program (ASPICHK.EXE) on your machine to make sure, that the ASPI layer is up to date. If this check fails, run the ASPI32.EXE program for updating the ASPI layer. Reboot your machine again.

7. Inside the Hardware Manager check the existing SCSI Card, that the card has been installed properly without errors and conflicts in your system.

8. Turn off your machine.

Windows Me Installation

1. Open the Windows "Add New Hardware" control panel, and install the SCSI adapter driver by following the instructions on your screen.

2. Run ASPICHECK program. If check fails, follow the steps under "Preparation of PC" (see above).

3. Make sure your printer is properly connected and powered on, then restart your computer.

4. Open the Windows System control panel, and select the Device Manager tab. Make sure your SCSI printer appears under “Other Devices.”

5. Open the Printers folder from the Windows Start menu. Choose "Add Printer".

6. Follow the instructions in the Add Printer wizard to install your new SCSI device as a local printer. When prompted, click the "Have Disk" button and enter the location of the INF file (found on the Printer Driver CD). When prompted for a printer port, select "FILE".

Complete the installation, restart your computer.

8. Change the port from "FILE" to "GACP1"

and print a test page.

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Windows 2000 Professional and XP Professional Installation

1. Log onto Windows as an administrator.

2. Open the Windows SCSI Adapters control panel, and install the SCSI adapter driver by following the instructions on your screen.

3. Make sure your printer is properly connected and powered on, then reboot your computer.

4. Open the Windows SCSI Adapters control panel again, and expand the device list. Make sure your SCSI printer appears.

5. Run ASPICHECK program. If the check failes, follow the steps "Preparation of PC" (see above).

6. Open the Printers folder from the Windows Start menu. Choose Add Printer.

Follow the instructions in the Add Printer wizard to install your new SCSI device as a local

printer with a FILE port. When prompted, click the "Have Disk" button and enter the location of the INF file (found on the Printer Driver CD). time! (See the following screen shots)

Click on "

" to continue.

Do not print a test page at this

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Click on "Next" to continue.

Choose "FILE" as port and click on "Next" to continue.

Click on "Have Disk" to choose the location of the driver and then on "Next".

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Please choose from the manufacturers list "DII" and the related printer "DII IDX380".

Click on "Next" to continue.

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At this time don´t print a test page and click on "

Click on "Finish" to complete the installation.

t" to continue.

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Click on "

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Follow the instructions on the screen.

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Please wait until the driver installation is completed.

The selected printer should appear here (see arrow):

8. After the installation has been completed, right-click on the new printer in the Printers folder, and choose Properties from the popup menu.

9. In the Properties dialog box, click the Ports tab and change the printer port from "FILE" to "GACP1".

10.

Print a test page.

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Driver set-up for single printer

a) Click under \ Start \ Settings \ Printer \ Add new printer b) Follow the instructions on screen c) Choose "

Connection to File

“ d) Choose the location of the driver e) Choose the "DII IDX380" driver f) Rename it to e.g.: DII IDX380 #1 g) Under \ Printer \ Properties look for connection. Change from "FILE“ to "GACP1“ h) Under

\ Printer \ Devices

: enable the printer Id

Driver set-up for several printers

a) Click under

\ Start \ Settings \ Printer \ Add new printer

b) Follow up the instructions c) Choose "

Connection to File

“ d) Choose the location of the driver e) Choose the "DII IDX380" driver f) Rename it to e.g.: "

DII IDX380 ALL"

g) Under \ Printer \ Properties look for connection. Change from „FILE“ to „GACP1“ h) Under \ Printer \ Devices : enable both printer Ids

Printer Pooling

A new Port Monitor is installed during the print driver setup. It permits job pooling and network printing to SCSI devices by virtualizing the bi-directional SCSI communication as a normal printer port. The printer driver supports the addition and deletion of multiple GACP ports (GACP1, GACP2, etc.) through the Properties > Ports page. You can access this by going to Start > Printers, right-clicking the printer icon and selecting Properties from the popup menu.

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Advanced Printer Configuration

If the printer is used in a network environment and should be shared with other users then click on "Shared as:" and give the printer a name. So other users then can select this printer within the network environment.

The printer requires to be assigned to an GACPx port.

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Don´t change the following default settings unless you are an advanced user.

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Don´t change the following default settings unless you are an advanced user.

Here you can see the version of the installed printer driver.

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