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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The Inhibit feature allows the user to define areas on the card surface which will not accept 
any transfer of print data. With the reverse image transfer technology used in this printer, the 
color (dye-sublimation, for colors or resin thermal transfer, for black resin) is transferred first 
onto a transfer film then that transfer film is used to fuse the coloring material onto the 
surface of the card.  

The inhibit material is transferred to the film after any dye-sublimation colors or resin thermal 
transfer ink are transferred to the film and before transferring the film to the card. (Note:  
Thus the inhibit material prevents the coloring material from being transferred to the card. 
Examples of where this feature may be used are signature panels, and magnetic stripe 
areas.) 

There are two ways to use the Inhibit Panel feature: 

•  Define inhibit areas using the Fargo Workbench. 
•  Define inhibit areas using the application software. 

The first way to utilize the Inhibit Panel feature is to use the Fargo Workbench Printer Utility 
to add rectangular inhibit areas. Each print job generated from the client computer will 
contain the instructions to place the corresponding inhibit area(s) on the card surface.  

Using the Fargo Workbench to define the inhibit area works regardless of whether the printer 
being used to print jobs is a shared instance from another computer (e.g., on a local area 
network) or an instance local to that computer.