1. idcardch.exe Driver
2. readme.txt File Contents

readme.txt Driver File Contents (idcardch.exe)

ID Card CH

Version 1.6.1 11/97

1) Changed the "Brightness Control" to a Dye-Sub Intensity control
for better clairity.

2) A separate Resin Heat control for color images using a black resin panel.
Now supports monochrome resin printing with three different
ribbon types: Premium, Standard, and Metalic. These selections will
select different heat ranges required by the different ribbons for
optimum image transfer. The "heat" control provides a fine tuning of
the heat setting for improving image quality.

3) Four different dithering options are supported.  Best to try them out
and see what results they give.  These will only be used for the monochrome
resin ribbons or the monochrome side of YMC/K (Split Ribbon Mode), 
YMCKK or YMCKOK ribbons.

4) This release supports a new card format called Smart Chip.  
Selecting this will force an area to be clipped from the 
image corresponding to the area where the smart chip should
be located.  

Users may place entries into their WIN.INI files that define four 
values as shown below with their default values:

[Color ID Card CH]
Port=LPT1:
SmartRectTop=90
SmartRectBottom=270
SmartRectLeft=290
SmartRectRight=440

These units are in printer pixels (300 per inch) and referenced
from the top left of the card in a portrait orientation.  
If one wanted to have a keep out area for a signature area, 
they might use the following entries:
SmartRectTop=10
SmartRectBottom=900
SmartRectLeft=10
SmartRectRight=50

These values must be reasonable and smaller than the card or they will be thrown out.


5) Passthrough data for magnetic encoding. (Text based magnetic encoding
is also supported through most applications.)  This feature is only of
interest to people using programs or writing programs that can send
data to a printer using the Passthrough Escape sequence supported by 
Windows.   Data can be sent three ways with Passthrough Escape: 
	a) Using a ~1, ~2 or ~3 text string, 
	b) Sending the Esc 00 02 M text string, or 
	c) Sending the Esc 00 02 m binary data.
Please check with Technical Support if you need further information.

6) See the file Smart.txt to explain how smart card encoding can be accomplished or 
check with Technical Support if you have further questions.