FARGO electronic DTC500 - Manual (Page 83)

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DTC500 Series Card Printer/Encoders User Guide (Rev. 5.0) 83
Resolving the Communication Errors (continued)
Step Procedure
5 Determine the nature of the problem with printing from the application.
a. Print a self-test from the Printer to ensure that the Printer (itself) is
functioning properly. See the Printing the Self-test in Section 8, page 254.
b. Print the Windows test page that is located in the General tab of the driver.
c. Use WordPad (a Windows 95/ 98/ ME/ NT/ 2000/XP word processing
program in the Accessories Program Group) via Start > Programs >
Accessories > WordPad. Follow this procedure:

Open the program and type:
“
This is a Test.
”
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Select File > Page Setup and click on the Printer button.
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Ensure that the DTC500 Series Card Printer is selected and click OK.
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Change all the margin settings to zero (0) and click OK.
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Select File > Print on the Menu Bar.
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Go to File on Menu Bar and select Print.
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