FARGO electronic HDPii Manuel D’Utilisation

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HDPii High Definition Card Printer/Encoder User Guide (Rev. 1.1) 

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Some applications can utilize the inhibit panel by using text objects containing a “~i” within 
the print job itself. The “~i” is followed by the file path and file name of a bitmap file, which is 
merged when the print job is rendered. 

•  Rendering is the process which changes the application output to instructions that the 

printer understands. 

•  This string will be removed from the print and the bitmap will be used to define the area 

where the transfer is to be inhibited. 

•  Incompatible Applications (which do not print text as objects):  Some Windows 

applications create print jobs, but do not generate text objects within the print job output.    

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  These types of application are not compatible with the inhibit panel and will not 

generate the correct print output.  If an application saves its files as a single 
bitmap the text will not be sent to the printer to be handled correctly.   

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  In this case the “~i" string may appear printed on the card instead of being 

substituted with the inhibit bitmap.  

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  Examples of applications (which are incompatible with inhibit printing) are 

Notepad and Microsoft Paint.  Microsoft Paint can be used for the creation of 
the INHIBIT BMP. 

•  Compatible Applications (which utilize text objects compatible with the Inhibit 

Panel):  Windows applications which generate text objects to Windows GDI are 
compatible with inhibit panel operation. (Note:  Compatible applications will allow you to 
edit text strings after the file has been saved.  Examples of compatible applications are 
Corel Draw, Microsoft Word, and Microsoft WordPad.)