Installing Badge Printer HID Fargo DTC 1250e

Installing Badge Printer HID Fargo DTC 1250e:

Registration uses the HID Fargo DTC 1250e badge printer for student and employee ID cards from the ID123 application.

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To add the printer:

  1. Go to Printers & Scanners.
  2. The badge printer will likely not be listed. You will need to add the printer using the "Add a new device manually" option:
  3. Select "Select a shared printer by name."Uploaded Image (Thumbnail)
  4. Add \\A109-A-04\DTC1250e Card Printer
  5. You will be asked if you trust this printer and to install a driver. Select install driver.
    1. You may be prompted to log in via Microsoft user access control prompt to do this.
  6. You can confirm this process worked by printing a test page.

For security purposes, registration users are manually added to the security permissions of the printer. Before adding a user make sure the user has permissions to access the badge printer. Check this via the security tab.

To check if the user has security permissions:

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  1. Go to printer properties.
  2. Select the security tab.
  3. Ensure the user is added to the Group or user names list.
  4. If the user is not listed, confirm with the lead registrar (currently DeeJay Petrillo) that the user needs to have access to this printer.
    1. After confirming with the lead registrar, you may add the user to the printer by clicking the Add button and entering their name in the "Enter the object names" box.

Troubleshooting:

HID Fargo DTC1250e:

  • ID Cards not printing in color:
    • Be sure to have the user change the color and print settings in ID123.
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