RESTRICTED USE ONLY Fargo Electronics, Inc.HDPii High Definition Card Printer/Encoder User Guide (Rev. 1.1) 11-15Background Information - Windows Printing SystemRendering is the conversion of the print job data from the application software into thevarious color “panels” that the printer can understand.• The rendering component of the Windows printing system looks for the inhibit bitmap filewithin the “~i” command to combine its information into the data that goes to the printer.• To describe where the inhibit bitmap file must be placed the user needs to understand theenvironment of the printer instance to which they are printing.• The environment of the printer instance determines on which workstation the print job isrendered. Where the inhibit bitmap file needs to be placed depends upon whatworkstation the job is rendered.Inhibit Bitmap - Local Printer Instances FunctionsIf the printer instance is local to the workstation where the print job is created (e.g., theprinter instance is not shared from another workstation on a local area network) rendering ofthe print job occurs on the given local workstation.Thus the file specified within the “~i” command in a print job being printed on a local printerinstance must reside on the local workstation.Inhibit Bitmap - Network (Shared) Printer Instances FunctionsIf the printer is a shared instance (e.g., shared from another workstation attached to a localarea network) the print job is rendered on the server workstation from which it is sharedunder Microsoft Windows 2000, XP and 2003.• Thus the file location specified within the command is relative to the server workstation onWindows 2000, XP and 2003; for example, it must exist in that location on the serverworkstation.• Under Microsoft Windows Vista, the rendering of the print job may be performed (a) oneither the client (that is printing to that instance) or (b) on the server workstation which issharing that instance depending upon the setting chosen within the printer instance.• Thus the file location specified within the command depends upon your settings within thatinstance for printing under Windows Vista.
