224 Zebra ZXP Series 3 Card Printer Service Manual P1061317-002
E: Smart Card Options
Contactless Smart Cards
Rather than using a contact pad, Contactless Smart Cards use various short-range radio
technologies to “connect” to the printer. The printer moves the card to an antenna location
on the card path, and the encoding or decoding occurs.
All other printer operations remain the same.
Media Loading Orientation for Contactless Smart Cards
For Contactless Smart Cards, orientation is not a consideration.
Printing on Contactless Smart Cards
When designing material to be printed on Contactless Smart Cards, be sure the printing will
not be on the smart chip area; i.e., the printing on either side of the card must not be on top of
or underneath the smart chip area.
By looking at an un-printed card very carefully, it is possible to the chip location (as in the
figure on the left below). If you print in that area, results will be unsatisfactory (in the figure on
the right, the “star” should have been a single solid color).
For printing in the single-card feed mode, the card Hopper is removed; and the card is inserted
into the single-card feed slot.