DataCard SD360 User Manual

XPS Card Printer Driver User’s Guide 103
Print Blocking Escapes
The Card Printer Driver provides several methods to prevent printing and topcoat on specific
areas of the card. Refer to “Non-Printing Areas” in your printer’s Installation and Administrator’s
Guide and “Print Area Tab” on page 81 for more information.
By default, the entire surface of the card is available for printing and topcoating. But when cards
have a magnetic stripe, a smart card chip, or another non-printable area, such as a signature
panel or hologram, you must define those areas so that the printer does not print or apply
topcoat to them.
Use escapes to block non-standard areas, or to define more than one blocking area per side of a
card. Escapes are specific sequences of characters that mark data with a special purpose. The
Card Printer Driver recognizes the following types of print blocking and topcoat escapes:
 Print Block
 Topcoat Add
 Topcoat Remove
About Non-Printing Areas
 If the card has more than one non-printing area on a side (for example, a magnetic stripe and
a signature panel), you must define all non-printing areas using print blocking escapes. An
escape applies to the side of the card where it appears in the card design.
 Non-printing areas defined using print blocking escapes always override the driver Printing
Preferences settings.
 Each print blocking area defined by an escape is a rectangular shape.
 You can specify more than one area of the same type in the escape string by placing a
semicolon (;) character between each set of values.
 The CR805 retransfer printer uses the print block escape to block printing over the
smart card chip on the front of the card and to specify where to apply the
inhibitor on the card back to prevent printing on the magnetic stripe and
signature panel. Refer to “Print Bocking in a Retransfer Printer” on page 107 for
complete information.
The printer does not use the topcoat add and topcoat remove escapes.
 If you use YMCK or YMCK-K ribbon (ribbons without a topcoat panel), the topcoat
escapes are ignored. Print blocking escapes function normally.

DataCard SD360 Specifications

General

Card size	85.6 x 53.98 mm
Card types	Magnetic stripe (ISO 7811), PVC
Card feeder	Yes
Print technology	Dye-sublimation
Maximum resolution	300 x 300 DPI
Print speed (color)	200 card/h
Print speed (monochrome)	830 card/h
Duplex print speed (color)	155 card/h
Display	LCD
Lamination	No
Certification	cULus, FCC, I.C, CE, Ctick, VCCI, RoHS, WEEE, ENERGY STAR, CCC
Product color	Black, Blue
Internal memory	128 MB
Built-in barcodes	1D, 2D
Cable lock slot type	Kensington
Total input capacity	100 sheets
Compatible operating systems	Windows Server 2003/Server 2008
Windows operating systems supported	Windows 7 Home Premium, Windows 7 Home Premium x64, Windows 7 Professional, Windows 7 Professional x64, Windows 7 Starter, Windows 7 Starter x64, Windows 7 Ultimate, Windows 7 Ultimate x64, Windows Vista Business, Windows Vista Business x64, Windows Vista Home Basic, Windows Vista Home Basic x64, Windows Vista Home Premium, Windows Vista Home Premium x64, Windows Vista Ultimate, Windows Vista Ultimate x64, Windows XP Home, Windows XP Home x64, Windows XP Professional, Windows XP Professional x64
Storage temperature (T-T)	-15 - 60 °C
Operating temperature (T-T)	15 - 35 °C
Storage relative humidity (H-H)	10 - 90 %
Operating relative humidity (H-H)	20 - 80 %
AC input voltage	100 - 240 V
AC input frequency	50 - 60 Hz
Interface	USB & Ethernet

Weight and Dimensions

Weight	5400 g
Dimensions (WxDxH)	175 x 539 x 224 mm