Zebra Technologies P640i User Manual

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P640i Card Printer User Guide
980541-001 Rev. A
Depending on the application used to create the card 
layout, elements of the design may be identified in 
different ways to the printer driver. This printer driver 
recognizes, and rasterizes, five types of elements: text, 
lines and pixels, area fills, monochrome bitmaps, and 
color bit maps:
Text is text which is sent explicitly as such to the 
printer driver.
Lines and pixels are lines and dots (pixels) sent as 
such to the printer driver.
Area fills are color-filled geometric shapes.
Monochrome bitmaps are 1-bit bitmaps (every 
pixel either black or white).
Color bitmaps are full color uncompressed pixel 
maps.
The above elements may not always be sent to the 
driver as expected. For example, a bar code may be 
sent as text, a series of area fills, or a monochrome 
bitmap. Results will vary by application used to create 
the card design. Another variable, again controlled by 
the card layout application, is  the precedence 
(stacking order) of the various element types in the 
event that one or more of them overlap.
Any of the above five elements may be selected for 
black extraction when the ribbon is set up to apply 
YMC (color) and K (black) to the same surface of the 
card. In this condition, the driver generates an 
extracted K image by looking for “true-black” 
features in the selected element types, that is, 
instances where all three YMC values are at the 
maximum (full intensity). Each such true-black 
instance generates a corresponding cluster of black 
pixels in the extracted image, which will be printed 
with the K (black) panel either on top of the YMC 
image, or replacing it entirely – your choice.
Reference 
Technical Note 3
, Magnetic Encoder 
Reference 
Technical Note 7
, ID/Log 
Printing Preferences
Magnetic Encoding
Printing Preferences
ID/Log