Canon MP PVC Card Tray - 2 Cards

These instructions are for the Canon MP PVC Card Tray, which holds 2 cards and fits the Canon Pixma TS700, TS8200, TS8300, and TS9500 series printers. Printing on a different tray or on Teslin? Find your setup in Printing Instructions.

Step 1: Set ID Maker to open the printable in a browser tab

On the Print page in ID Maker, before you generate, turn on the setting named Open printable in new window instead of downloading it.

The printable then opens in a new browser tab instead of going to your Downloads folder, and you print from that tab.

See Using Printables for the rest of the options on that page, including the one for printing just a single card.

Step 2: Print from the browser

These steps are for Chrome and Edge. Safari is slightly different, see below.

1. Generate the printable. It opens in a new tab.
2. Open the browser menu (the three dots at the top right) and choose Print. The keyboard shortcut is Ctrl+P on Windows, Cmd+P on Mac.
3. Choose your printer, for example Canon TS702a.

4. Click Print using system dialog... at the bottom of the print panel.

   This step is easy to miss and it is the one that matters. The browser's own print panel cannot reach the Canon card tray settings. Set everything below in the system dialog, not in the browser panel.

5. Make sure that any Scaling settings are set to 100%. Failure to do this will cause your ID Cards to print too small, too large, or in the wrong location.
6. Select Paper Size: 120 x 120mm or Multi Purpose Tray (whichever option you have available).
7. Go to Media & Quality and select these 2 options: Feed from: CD-DVD Tray, and Media Type: Disc.
8. Put 2 cards in the PVC Card Tray, even if you are only printing one. Leave the tray out of the printer for now.
9. Click Print.
10. The printer runs for a few moments and pulls in the paper output tray. Wait for its screen to ask for the tray.
11. Insert the tray, pushing it as far as it goes without force. See Canon TS Printers - Where to Insert Tray.
12. Press OK on the printer's screen to start printing.

Printing from Safari

Safari has no Print using system dialog option, because File > Print already opens the system dialog. Skip step 4 and pick up at step 5.

After printing

If you printed with a bleed, turn the tray upside down to drop the cards onto your desk, then wipe the tray with a paper towel or cloth. Ink left on the tray ends up on your hands and on your next set of cards.

Where to insert the tray

On Canon TS printers (TS7xx, TS8xxx, TS9xxx) the tray goes between the paper output tray and the section above it. Push the paper output tray all the way into the printer so it sits flush with the upper section. That forms the slot the card tray slides into.

Quick answers

I don't see 120 x 120mm or Multi Purpose Tray in the paper size list.

You are probably still in the browser's print panel rather than the system dialog, or the printer selected in step 3 is not the Canon. Go back to step 4.

The printer never asked for the tray, it just printed.

The card tray settings did not take, so the job went through as an ordinary paper print. Work back through steps 4 to 7 and make sure Feed from and Media Type are set in the system dialog.

My cards printed slightly off position.

Check that scaling was set to 100% in the system dialog first, since that is the usual cause. If the alignment is still off, ID Maker can nudge the printable itself. See Making Fine Adjustments to a Printable.

Why do I have to put 2 cards in the tray when I'm only printing one?

The printable covers both slots unless you checked Do you want to include just one card? in ID Maker. An empty slot means the printer sprays ink straight onto the tray, and that ink ends up on your hands and on your next set of cards. Even with the one-card option checked, keep a second card in the empty slot. It is simply ignored.

Can I print more than 2 cards at once?

Yes. Send them all to the printer in one job. It prints them in order and asks you to re-insert the tray after each one finishes. See Explaining Placeholders.

How do I print the front and the back of a card?

Generate a separate printable for each side, one for the front and one for the back. Print all the fronts, take the cards out of the tray, flip them over, put them back in the same positions, then print the backs. See How To Print.

Printing from Adobe Acrobat Reader instead

If you would rather work from a downloaded PDF, leave Open printable in new window off, open the downloaded file in Adobe Acrobat Reader, choose File > Print, and use the same settings from step 5 onward.

The videos below show how to set up the print settings in Acrobat Reader.

Mac

Windows

Notes

On macOS 10.14 and higher, printing from Preview can fail. Acrobat Reader works where Preview does not.

On Windows, the default Windows PDF app gives you no way to set scaling. Use a browser or Acrobat Reader instead.

Still need help?

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