CIM PRO COMBI 1000 - 1.6 EMBOSSING UNIT; 1.7 INFILLER

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OPERATOR’S MANUAL PRO SERIES
1 GENERAL DESCRIPTION
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1.6 EMBOSSING UNIT
The embossing unit (1) consists of a rotating drum on
which various punches corresponding to a single
character are placed.
The punches are pressed over and under the card to
print the characters. It is possible to print indented
characters (when the counter punch is flat) or
embossed (when the counter-punch is concave).
The standard drums can print 60, 90 and 105 characters
These include all alphanumeric characters (OCR-A,
OCR-B and 7B fonts), punctuation and special
characters; some additional characters for asiatic
oriental languages are included.
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1.7 INFILLER
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The infiller is the device which inks the indent characters
(OCRB1, OCRA1, MASTERCARD etc.).
This device contains a coloured ribbon which is placed
between the punch and dye during the Indent cycle and
inks the Indent character. There are 2 different versions
of the Infiller:
The Mobile Top Infiller: If the machine is equipped with
2 series of characters, one for embossing and the other
for Indenting.
The Mobile Top Infiller is used for Indent characters on
the Front of the card such as the font OCRB 1.
The Mobile Bottom Infiller: If the machine is equipped
with 2 series of characters, one for embossing and the
other for punching. The Mobile Bottom Infiller: is used
for Indent characters on the Back of the card such as
the font OCRA1, Master Card.