Evolis New Pebble Manual de usuario
Table of contents
Chapter I – Setting Up Page 3
Introduction Page 3
1. Unpacking my printer Page 3
2. Description of the printer and its functions Page 4
3. Installing my printer Page 5
a. Installation of the interface and the supply cable Page 5
b. Installation of the ribbon Page 6
c. Loading the cards Page 7
Chapter II –Printing Page 9
1. Installing my printer driver Page 9
2. Configuring the printing settings Page 10
3. My first cards Page 12
Chapter III –Cleaning Page 15
1. Automatic printer cleaning Page 15
2. Cleaning of the print head Page 17
3. Maintening the cleaning roller Page 18
Chapter IV –Assistance Page 19
1. Printer Control Panel Page 19
2. Troubleshooting Page 20
3. Customer Assistance Page 23
Chapter V –Specifications Page 24
Chapter VI –Evolis Warranty Page 25
1. Extent of the warranty Page 25
2. After sales service in the warranty period Page 26
3. After sales service outside the warranty period Page 26
Chapter VII –Supplies Page 27
Appendix A –Magnetic Encoding Page 29
Appendix B –Smart Card Contact Station Page 33
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Introduction
We congratulate you on having made the New Pebble printer your choice !
The New Pebble printer is the ideal solution for all your printing of plastic cards in fields as
extensive and varied as identification, access control, management of visitors, members, etc.
This product, comes with a wide range of assistance services, from the Evolis company and its
partners, specially selected to help you in an efficient and professional manner.
1. Unpacking my printer
Verify whether the following parts have been supplied with your printer :
Power supply and power supply cable
Printer interface cable
User’s guide
Evolis CD Software
Cleaning Case
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1.
Chapter 1
IMPORTANT !
The printer must be placed on a level surface, in a dust free
environment. It is essential to be able to access the printer from all
sides for its installation.
Setting up
Description of the printer : Functions
Thermal print head For printing cards.
Ribbon Spindles For installing the ribbon in the printer.
Card Output Hopper Collects the cards ejected from the printer.
Control Panel Shows the printer activity.
Cleaning Roller Removes any dust before printing the card.
Card Feeder Holds the cards to be printed.
Identification label Gives the printer model and serial number.
Electrical connector For connecting the printer to the power supply.
Switch On/Off switch.
Parallel Port Enables data to be received and sent “from”and “to”the
computer.
USB Port (optional) Enables data to be received and sent “from”and “to”the
computer.
Cover lever Allows the printer cover to be opened and closed.
Printer control Panel
There is a Control Panel on the upper part of the printer.
Four warning lights are associated with symbols showing the activity during printing.
These lights show :
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2. Description of the printer and its functions
Switch on, No Push
data reception card button
Ribbon Cleaning
end signal
3. Installing my printer
a) Installation of the interface and supply cables:
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IMPORTANT !
To disconnect this product, pull the plug out of the socket, which
should remain easily accessible.
This product must be connected to an electrical installation correct-
ly protected and equipped with a protective earth.
Ensure that the printer
switch is in position 0
(switched off).
OR
1. Connect the supplied parallel
cable to your printer and fix
it by folding down the two
metal clips on the printer
onto the cable connector as
shown.
2. If you have a printer with a
USB port, connect the
supplied USB cable to your
printer as shown.
USB Port optional
3. Connect the other end of the
cable to the appropriate port
of your computer.
4. Connect the power cable to
the supply then plug in the
power cable connector to
the printer. Then connect the
end of the power cable to an
earthed mains power point.
b) Installation of the ribbon
WARNING
The ribbon must be correctly installed for the printer to function.
Only use Evolis printer ribbons. Evolis accepts no responsibility if the
printer is damaged following the use of an unapproved ribbon.
The ribbon is automatically positioned each time the cover is clo-
sed.
1. Open the printer cover by
pressing on the opening
lever, then pivoting it.
2. Remove the two ribbon
spindles that are in the
printer.
4. Replace the spindles with ribbon
in the printer as shown.
5. Close the printer cover.
3. Insert the two spindles in
the ribbon cores as
shown.
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c) Loading the cards
IMPORTANT !
Advice about selecting cards :
• Only use the types of card appearing in the Specifications page of
this manual
• Do not touch the printable surface of the cards ; the print quality
depends upon this
• Do not use damaged or folded cards or ones with an embossed
texture.
• Always store the blank cards in a clean, dust free location
Card thickness :
•The Evolis printer accepts cards from 0.25mm (10mil) to 1mm
(40mil) thick.
1. Push and maintain down
the lever as shown. Then
insert 100 cards max.
(0.76mm –30mil) in the
feeder.
2. Ensure that the stack of cards
is correctly aligned with the
edge of the feeder.
3. Move up or down the handle as
shown to adjust the card thick-
ness (the factory setting for card
thickness is 0.76mm –30mil).
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1. Installing my printer driver
Before using your New Pebble printer, you must install its printer driver.
Reminder : Evolis Pebble driver and printers operate under Windows 95/98/2000, Me, NT 4.0 and Xp.
Printer driver installation procedure
1. Start Windows, ensuring that no other Windows application is running.
2. Place the CD in the CD Rom drive of your computer. The program runs automatically.
3. Click on the option Pebble Printer driver installation from the menu. The installation of the
driver runs automatically.
However, if the installation program does not run automatically, proceed as follows :
1. Start Windows, ensuring that no other application is running.
2. Insert the Starter CD in the CD ROM drive
3. Click on Start in the Windows, select Settings then Printers.
4. Double-click on the Add Printer icon.
5. Click on Next until the list of makers is displayed.
6. Click on Have Disk then on Install from…
Select the drive letter corresponding to your CD ROM drive
Click on Browse.
7. In the tree diagram of the CD ROM drive, double-click on the Drivers directory
8. Double-click on the directory corresponding to your Windows environment.
9. Select the file “evolis.inf ”.
10. Click on OK. The name of the printer manager appears.
11. Continue the installation by following the instructions displayed on the screen.
Note that the installation of a printer driver under NT may be subject to authorisation by the
administrator as a function of "login system"
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2.
Chapter 2
NOTE !
The Evolis CD Software includes a utility which automates the installation
of the printer driver. This utility installs the driver that is suitable for your
configuration, in the Windows operating language.
Printing
2. Configuring the printing settings
Your printer has numerous setting functions in the print manager.
These printing settings are accessible :
•from Start in the Windows bar, Settings then Printers
1. Select Evolis Pebble
2. In File, in the bar of the Windows window menus, select Properties (for Windows
95/98/2000) or Default Document (for Windows NT 4.0).
•From your Windows software.
In File, from the menu bar of your application, select Print or Printing Configuration.
Note that the procedures vary according to the type of software used and the Operating System
(95/98 /2000 or NT)
Default Evolis Pebble printer
To select the New Pebble printer as the default, proceed as follows :
1. Click on Start, in the Windows bar, select Settings then Printers.
2. Click on the New Pebble Printer icon then point to File in the menu bar.
3. Select Set as Default and close the window.
Evolis Pebble Properties
Different dialog boxes allow you :
•to carry out adjustments such as orientation and print quality.
•to manage the different printing and use modes of the appropriate ribbons.
•to select the printer port.
•to activate the various printer control and maintenance functions.
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IMPORTANT !
Before using the printer, check that it is selected as the default
printer.
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