HID FARGO HDP8500 User Guide - Manual (Page 108)

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HDP8500 Industrial Card Printer/Encoder User Guide L001617 rev 1.1
Using the K Panel Resin tab
Use this tab to adjust the Card Size, the Direction the Card Travels through the Printer, the Print
All Black with K Panel (options) and the Defined Areas. Use this tab to control where the resin
black (K) Panel of a full-color Ribbon is printed. (Note: When Disable Printing under the Device
Options tab is selected, this tab will be active while all functions will be grayed out.)
If printing with a Ribbon type that does not have a K Panel, such as the YMC Ribbon type,
all K Panel Resin options will be grayed out. Resin black text is desirable due to its sharp,
saturated color and resin black barcodes are required to ensure readability when scanned
by an infrared barcode reader. (Note: The Printer Driver will automatically print all TrueType
black text and TrueType barcodes only with the resin black (K) Panel of the Print Ribbon by
default.)
If printing black text or barcodes that are not TrueType fonts or black graphics, select one of
the three options listed under Print All Black with K Panel (see the next page). (Note: The
Printer Driver will print areas of the image where it finds black coloring with the Print
Ribbon's resin black (K) Panel as specified by each of the following options.)