IDP Smart 51 - Installation Guide & User Manual

Thank you for purchasing the Smart 51 ID Card Printer from Vision IDZ.

Installation Guide

If you purchased the 'Smart 51 Starter Pack' then you will have received the following items:

• IDP Smart 51S or 51D card printer, depending on which package you purchased
• Colour Ribbon (YMCKO)
• 2 packs of white PVC cards
• CardPresso (XXS Edition) card design software (USB Drive licence)
• Cleaning Card

Get up and running in minutes by following these 3 easy steps ....

1) Watch this video to install the ribbon and cards into the printer.

NOTE, do not connect the printer to the PC yet. Proceed to Step 2 before connecting the printer to the PC

2) Download and install the Smart 51 Printer driver.

Download and install the Smart 51 printer driver from the IDP Download Page.

The last step of the installation will ask you to connect the printer to the PC.

Go ahead and connect the printer to the PC now, using the USB cable (supplied).

3) Install CardPresso card design/printing software.

a) Download and install the latest release of CardPresso from the CardPresso download page : https://www.cardpresso.com/downloads-cp

b) When you launch CardPresso application for the first time, it will ask you to activate the licence by inserting your activation code. Activate your CardPresso user licence by inserting your activation code (found on the CardPresso activation card which is in the green CardPresso box) when prompted (or insert the USB drive if thats what you have instead of activation code). See 'Activating CardPresso' for more information.

c) Create your card design template - you can refer to our "Cardpresso Getting started video"

If required, download the Smart 51 User Manual from IDP Download page , look for 'SMART-51 User Manual'