Zebra P420 - Manual

v i Important general information Mechanical hazard, such as one associated with moving parts, capable of resulting in equipmentdamage or personal injury. Electrical hazard, such as an exposed voltage point, capable of causing electrical shock and personalinjury. An area where electrostatic discharg...

4 3 2 1 vii Table of Contents PRINTING A SAMPLE CARD ............................................ 19 A- Install Driver on windows 95/98 ...................................... 20 B- Install Driver on windows NT4 .0 .......................................... 21 C- Set Printer Driver Options .............

Your P420 printer ships in a carton and protective anti-static bag. Keep all packing material in case you need to move or re-ship the printer. While unpacking, inspect the carton to ensure that no damage occured during shipping. Please ensure that you have a clean and nearly dust free environment fo...

Your P420 printer has an LCD Display, two LED's and two Panel Buttons. 3 The 16 character LCD Display is used for : • Showing the printer's current status • Providing operator and service messages (Chapter 5) The two LED's are used for : • Green: Power LED • Amber: Alert LED (with beeper) This Alert...

4 The following will guide you through the installation of your P420 printer. CAUTION : Limit AC power supplied to the P420 Printer to 110 - 230 V AC, 60 - 50 Hz for an associated 680 mA - 310 mA. Limit excess current draw to 16 amps or less, using an associated cir- cuit breaker or other such devic...

5 ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ O PERATION The following shows the features found on your P420 Printer: 2.1 Printer Features PLEASE NOTE : Any blue items inside the printer can be operated by the user. STANDARD FEATURES 1. Print Head 2. Print Head Unlock lever 3. Manual Holde...

6 The P420 Printer requires approved ribbons (See Appendix C). The Resin Ther mal Transfer and Dye Sublimation ribbons are specifically designed for your P420 Printer. For optimum perfor- mance and printer life (Print Head), always use approved ribbons. 1. Remove ribbon from packaging. 2. With print...

To help you load, print, and collect cards, the P420 has the following items: 1. Open Card Feeder Cover by putting your fingers on both sides and rotating the cover in a clockwise direction to the open position. 2. Install cards into Feeder* as shown. 3. Close Card Feeder Cover. 2.3 Loading Cards OP...

B - INSTALL CARD CLEANING CARTRIDGE 1. Remove Card Cleaning Cartridge from packaging. 3. Make sure the arrow on top of the assembly is facing toward the rear of the printer. Hook assembly into slot on printer and rotate down. Ensure the assembly locks in place. 2. Open Printer cover and remove the y...

The P420 Printer is equipped with a Rejected Card Box. When an encoding can not be completed, the card is ejected into the Rejected card box. The P420 Printer counts the number of cards which go into the Rejected Card Box. After 20 cards the printer stops, the Amber LED Flashes and a LCD Message is ...

14 A Manual Feed Slot is available on the side of the Card Feeder cover for feeding single cards. Cleaning Cards are fed manually through this slot. The Feeder must be empty for manual card feeding to work properly. For one-at-a-time printing, feed cards through slot on side of Feeder. Do not feed m...

15 With ribbon and cards loaded, your P420 printer is ready to print. To check the operation of the printer you should print a test card. 1. Press the Menu Button until the LCD screen shows "SELF TEST" 3. A test card will print after a few seconds. LCD display will show printing status. Test...

16 The printer is equipped with a LCD Display and two key buttons which gives access to printer menus. When the Menu button to enter the Menu Mode. The top line display shows menu information. The second line of display clarifies the function of the two [NEXT] and [SELECT] key buttons relative to th...

The Printer Wizard will copy the necessary files to the PC for you and the P420 printer driver installation will be completed. 20 This installation uses floppy drive 'A' or from CD Rom as the installation drive with the printer used as stand alone. ° Start your computer and then Windows. ° Insert yo...

Once the printer driver has been successfully installed, you will need to configure it for your printer. This driver provides control of several printer features when printing from Windows applications. These features are accessed through the P420 Plastic Card Printer Properties . To access these pr...

23 ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ C LEANING P R O T E C T Y O U R FA C T O RY WARRANTY ! The recommended maintenance procedures must be performed to maintain your factory warranty. Other than the recommended cleaning procedures described in this manual, allow only Zebra authorised...

24 Your P420 Printer includes a simple cleaning system using the Pre-Saturated Cleaning Cards provided. The regular use of these cards will clean and maintain important parts of your printer: including the Print Head, and Transport Rollers. WHEN TO CLEAN When LCD screen reports message. HOW TO CLEAN...

25 1. Raise Print Head and remove the Ribbon. 2. Clean Print Head by moving alcohol- moistened swab tip side-to-side across Print Head elements. Only use moderate force. (To reorder swabs see Appendix C). Never use a sharp object to scrape deposits from the print head. Permanent damage will result. ...

26 Your P420 Printer also has a Card Cleaning Cartridge. This item cleans the cards entering the printer. To ensure print quality, the cleaning roller requires periodic replacements. WHEN TO MAINTAIN When LCD screen reports message. Run a printer cleaning first . (see 4.1 Cleaning System for more in...

27 * See Appendix C for replacement Cleaning Rollers. SLOT Although the CLEAN PRINTER message is displayed until maintenance has been performed, the printer will continue to operate. 5. Carefully peel off wrapper from new Cleaning Roller while in Cartridge. 6. Replace Cartridge into printer. Make su...

T ROUBLESHOOTING This section offers solutions to potential problems you may experience with your P420 printer. The table below lists the screen messages that will be displayed on the printer's LCD, both during normal operation and to alert operator of any error conditions. There is also some additi...

32 5.2 Print Quality Issues TROUBLESHOOTING Solution A1.Check that cards are stored in a dust free environment A2.Use a different supply of cards.B1.Perform a Cleaning of the printer (see Cleaning section). B2.Replace Cleaning Roller (see Cleaning section). This section will help you resolve print q...

35 T ECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS General Colour Printing • High speed printing, over 102 cards/hour edge to edge in full color (YMCKOK) throughput • Small footprint • Windows Drivers for 95/98 and NT 4.0 (option) • One year printer warranty • One year print head warranty • Color dye sublimation or monoc...

38 Options • Centronics Cable • RS-232C serial port • USB port • Smart Card Contact Station (0.76mm cards only) • Magnetic Encoder (0.76mm cards only) • Cleaning supplies • Service Manual *Use only Zebra-approved card and ribbon media. Using non-approved card or ribbon media can void your warranty. ...

39 A PPENDIX A Operation and maintenance requirements for the P420 Printer with the optional magnetic card stripe encoder. (See Chapter 2 for location). The magnetic encoder can be set for either high or low coercivity. Magnetic Card Stripe Encoder ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○...

40 APPENDIX A ONLY USE cards that comply with ISO 7810 & 7811 standards for magnetic stripe cards. The magnetic stripe must be flush to the surface of the card to work properly. Never use taped-on magnetic stripes. The magnetic encoder is a factory installed item with the read/write head positio...

ISO STANDARD ENCODING * Bit per inch † Except the '?' character ‡ Including Start, Stop and LRC characters. Also note that these 3 characters are automatically managed by the magnetic encoder according to the ISO Standard Norms. NOTE: Refer to the Card Printer Programmer's Manual for complete progra...

42 A PPENDIX B This section contains information on the additional operations of the P420 Printers with Smart Card Contact Stations. (See Chapter 2 for location.) Smart Cards can have a built-in microcomputer and a battery. Card Memory can store fingerprints, voice recognition patterns, medical reco...

43 Position the cards with the Smart Card Chip at the top of the card and towards the printer. When a command to the parallel printer interface sends a card to the Smart Card Contact Station, the printer connects the Smart Card Contact Station to the female DB-9 connector on the rear of the printer....

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45 The following plain white plastic cards are available for use in the P420 printers: CARDS Many other card types are also available; ask your dealer for more information. APPENDIX C Notes : † 10mil = 0.254mm; 30mil = 0.762mm ‡ 10 mil cards are recommended for single side printing and monochrome on...

46 Accessories available for P420 Printers appear below. Always refer to the part number when placing an order. ACCESSORIES APPENDIX C 300320-001 206851-001 105909-112 Centronics Parallel Cable (36 pins) Additional Card Output Hopper Replacement Print Head Kit Printer Supplies Part Number Descriptio...

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