CR80 card printer
Magicard Enduro / Pronto / 300 / 600 — PVC card printing setup
Set up Magicard Enduro / Pronto / 300 / 600 card printers for full-card (CR80) PVC printing with Print Perfect Ai — single side or double side, full-panel or half-panel ribbon.
Printer setup › Magicard Enduro / Pronto / 300 / 600
Printers: Magicard Enduro, Enduro+, Enduro3E, Pronto, 300, 600
1. Install the printer driver
Download the driver for your exact model and Windows version from the maker’s website: Magicard support ↗. After installing, print a Windows test page once to make sure the printer works.
2. Windows Printing preferences
- Switch the printer on. Open Windows → Printers & scanners (Devices and Printers) → right-click your printer → Printing preferences.
- The values below are a starting point for a double-side printer with a half-panel colour ribbon (colour on the photo side, black on the back). With a full-panel ribbon choose that ribbon and colour on both sides.
- Set these options in Magicard — Printer:
Magicard — Printer - Card orientation
- Landscape
- Card size
- CR80 card
- Duplex printing
- as your printer allows
- Set these options in Magicard — Card front:
Magicard — Card front - Color format
- Color / resin black (YMCK)
- Print overcoat
- ticked
- Black options → Black text uses K-Resin
- ticked
- Black options → Mono bitmaps use K-Resin
- ticked
- Black options → Black polygons use K-Resin
- ticked
- Set these options in Magicard — Card back:
Magicard — Card back - Color format
- Monochrome (K only)
For a double-side printer with a half-panel ribbon.
- Set these options in Magicard — Image:
Magicard — Image - Color correction
- Color management (built-in to driver)
- Resin quality
- High quality
- Printhead power → Options
- colour 60 · black resin 70 · overcoat 50 if the print is light
- Click Apply / OK so Windows remembers the settings. Repeat them if Windows creates a second copy of the printer on another USB port.
3. Settings in Print Perfect Ai
- Set these options in Print Perfect Ai → App Settings → Printer & output:
Print Perfect Ai → App Settings → Printer & output - Select Printer Type
- Single Side or Double Side
- Select Printer Brand
- Magicard
- Select Printer Name
- your card printer
- Half Panel Ribbon
- tick for half-panel ribbon / pre-printed cards
- Double Side sends front and back as one job — no card flipping. Back side upside down? Tick “Rotate back side 180°”.
- The card always fills the whole card page of the driver, so there is no white edge.
- In the software click Print test card. If the print sits a little off the card, correct it with X Offset / Y Offset (mm) and print again — the values are saved.
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