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APPENDIX B
Smart Card Options
This section contains information on the additional operations of a P330i or P330m Printer
equipped with one or more of the available Smart Card options. See the Foreword for the
available Smart Card options.
Smart Cards can have a built-in microcomputer and/or memory to store fingerprints, voice
recognition patterns, medical records, and other such data. All other printer operations remain
the same as the standard models.
Encoding and Reading Smart Cards
Encoding data onto Smart Cards and reading the data previously encoded on them is totally
under control of the application software; no operator action is required.
If you experience any problems with encoding or reading data, refer to the users manual or
other documentation for the application software.
Contact Smart Cards
Contact Smart Cards have a pad of contacts on the surface of the card that connect to the
circuitry embedded into the card.
Data to be encoded onto the Smart Card, and data read from the Smart Card, can interface via
a connector on the printer’s rear panel (“Contact Station”), or encoding/decoding can be
performed by logic on the printer’s Main PCBA (“Contact Encoder”).
The printer responds to commands that position the card at the contact location, where the
printer connects to the contacts on the Smart Card. All other printer operations remain the
same as the standard models.
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