How to Store Formsets on a USB Drive for Use with a Forms Card

Overview

Before you can store formsets on a USB drive for use with the Forms Card, you need the following to support the use of formsets with a forms card

Forms Composer
version
3.3.9
or greater

Flash Memory
or Hard Drive
– required for any formsets,fonts and files that will not get stored on the USB drive.

Forms Manager
version
3.3.9
or greater

Forms
and
Bar Code Card
installed on one of the following products: E46x, X46xe, X65xe, X73xe or X86xe
Series products.

Forms and Bar Code Card-equipped device with firmware level of .P413a
or higher

Supported USB thumb or flash drive
(SanDisk, Micron, CruzerMicro, Lexar Firefly, or Sony among others)

Direct USB port
located on the front of the machine

Lexmark SFP
(single function) or MFP
(multifunction printer) with a front-facing direct USB port.

Procedure: Storing formsets on a USB flash drive

NOTE:
This function is very similar to downloading formsets to a printer.

To do this:

Create form in Forms Composer
and Save it.

Insert
the USB
flash drive
into the computer where Forms Composer
resides.

Open Forms Manager
.

Choose Formsset
> Forms Card Export To
. Click here for illustration.

Select the formset (fdd) and/or subform (sdd). Click here for illustration

Choose the USB drive
letter
as the destination
for the forms. Click here for illustration.

Exit Forms Manager
.

Remove
the USB flash drive
from the Windows workstation.

Insert
the USB flash drive
in the printer’s
"Direct
" USB port
. (The printer will instantly catalog all activation conditions and formsets.)

Send
the print job
to the printer. (The printer will receive the job, activate the formset on the USB drive, perform the merge and route the resulting PDF appropriately.)

Remove
the USB flash drive
after job completion, and store the USB flash drive in a secure enviornment.

Still Need Help?

Contact
Lexmark Technical Support or your local Lexmark representative if you require additional technical support.
NOTE:
You will need to provide your printer model/machine type
and serial number
(SN
) when calling for support.

Please call from near the computer hosting the software in case the technician on the phone asks you to perform a task involving an application function.

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