H8

User Manual

Version: 2.1
Date: January, 2012
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Chapter 1 Instruction for Use

1.1 Recommended Operation Steps

Step 1. Install the attendance machine and power it on.

Step 2. Insert a USB disk or an SD card into the attendance

machine. Display the main interface and choose Report to
download a setting report to the USB disk or SD card.
Insert the USB disk or SD card into your PC. Open the
shift arrangement table to set desired shifts, time for
automated status switches, and alarms. Open the
schedule setting report to enter employee information (ID,
name, and department) and shifts.

Note: Fingerprints, passwords, and privileges must be

enrolled on the attendance machine.

Step 3. Insert a USB disk or an SD card into the attendance

machine. Display the main interface and choose Report to
upload the setting report.

Step 4. Display the main interface and choose Usr Mgt. to enroll
employee fingerprints and passwords (for proper
registration).

Step 5. Verify that the fingerprints and passwords enrolled are

available.

Step 6. Make sure the time on the attendance machine is accurate

before you start attendance recording.

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Step 7. At the end of each month, choose Report to download a

standard report using a USB disk or an SD card. Save the
report and collect relevant statistical information on your
PC.

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1.2 Finger Placement

Recommended fingers: The index finger, middle finger or the
ring finger; the thumb and little finger are not recommended
(because they are usually clumsy on the fingerprint collection
screen).
1) Proper finger placement:

The finger is flat to the surface and

centered in fingered guide.

2) Improper finger placement:

Not flat to the surface Off-center

Slanting Off-center

Please enroll and verify your fingerprint by using the proper finger placement mode to
avoid degradation of verification performance due to improper operations.～

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1.3 Main Interface

The main interface is as shown below:
Date

Time

Attendance state

Attendance state: Display current attendance status. You can

change the attendance status and display the status in relation to
the status key on the screen by pressing Status key.
Date and Time: Display current date and time. You can change
the date and time by choosing Clock > Date/Time.

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1.4 Attendance Verification Mode

On the initial interface, employees can record their attendance
through fingerprint and password verification. Attendance records
will be stored on the attendance machine upon successful
verification.

Fingerprint verification
(1) 1: N fingerprint matching
In the 1:N fingerprint matching mode, the device compares the
current fingerprint collected through the fingerprint collector with
all the fingerprints stored in the device.
Step 1: Press your finger on the fingerprint collector in a proper
way.
Step 2: When the system generates a voice announcement
“Thank you!” the verification is complete.

When the system generates a voice announcement “Press FP

again!” go back to step 1 and repeat everything over again.

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(2) 1:1 fingerprint matching (ID + fingerprint)

In the 1:1 fingerprint matching mode, the terminal compares

current fingerprint collected through the fingerprint collector with
that in relation to the user ID entered through keyboard. Adopt this
mode only when it is difficult to recognize the fingerprint.
Step 1: Enter a user ID through keyboard on the initial interface.

Step 2: Press your finger on the fingerprint collector in a proper

way.
Step 3: When the system generates a voice announcement
“Thank you!” the verification is complete.

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When the system generates a voice announcement “Press FP

again!” place the same finger on the fingerprint collector again.

Employee can try another 2 times by default. The repeated times can be set
in 4.1 System Setting option. If it fails after 2 times, return Step 1 for second
operation.

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Password verification
Step 1: Enter a user ID through keyboard on the initial interface
and press M/OK..
Step 2: If you enter an ID that is not enrolled into the system, the
system will generate a voice announcement “Wrong ID” and return
to the initial interface.

Step 3: Enter a password on the PWD interface.

Step 4: When the system displays the prompt “Thank you!” the
verification is complete.

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When the system displays the prompt “Incorrect password”,

re-enter a password.

Employee can try another 2 times by default. The repeated times can be set
in 4.1 System Setting option. If it fails after 2 times, return Step 1 for second
operation.

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1.5 Main Menu

Press M/OK on the initial interface to access the main menu, as
shown below:

Add user: This menu item allows you to add the information of
new users, including their work IDs, name,
fingerprints, passwords and rights.
User Mgt.: This menu item allows you to browse user
information, including their work IDs, names,
fingerprints, passwords and rights; add, edit or
delete the basic information of users; query user
records.
System: This menu item allows you to set system-related
parameters, including the basic parameters and
voice, fingerprint and attendance parameters, to
enable the terminal to meet user requirements to the
greatest extent in terms of functions and display.

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Report: Download card reports and attendance reports to a

USB disk. Reports stored on the USB disk can be
viewed on your PC.

Data Mgt.: Delete attendance data and all employee data.

Restore the attendance machine to factory settings
and initiate a firmware update.
Datastore: Through an SD card or a USB disk, import user
information and attendance data from the
attendance machine to related software or other
fingerprint recognition devices.
Record: This menu item allows you to easily query the
attendance records saved on the device.
Sys. Info.: This menu item allows you to check the storage
status as well as version information of the device.

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Chapter 2 Add a User

Enroll the fingerprints and passwords of the employees to the

popular color-screen FRT.

Press M/OK or 1 to display the Add user interface as shown

below:

ID: indicates the attendance ID of an employee.

FP: indicates the enrolled fingerprint of an employee. Each
employee is allowed to enroll 10 fingerprints at most.
Employees with fingerprints enrolled can use their
fingerprints for attendance recording.

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PWD: indicates the enrolled password of an employee. A
password may consist of one to eight characters.
Employees with passwords enrolled can use their
passwords for attendance recording.
Purview: indicates the rights assigned for users to execute menu
items. Ordinary users are only allowed to mark their
attendance by using their enrolled fingerprints or passwords.
Administrators are allowed to execute all menu items in
addition to marking their attendance like ordinary users.

 Tip: The menu items are accessible to all users in the

absence of an administrator. After an administrator is set, to
access menu items, a user needs to verify his/her identity as
an administrator.
2.1 Enter a User ID
1) The user ID is an ID assigned by the popular color-screen FRT by
default.

2) Press to delete the user ID assigned by the system by default. You

can enter user ID by using the keypad. To delete a character, press .

 Tip: The spare user ID 8888 is not recommended.

2.2 Input name
Use T9 input to input employee’s name. Please see appendix T9 input.

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2.3 Enroll a Fingerprint

Press M/.OK or ▲/▼ to select “enroll fingerprint”, then press OK to start
fingerprint.

Press finger according to device’s prompt. Press the finger three times in the
proper way.
If one fingerprint is enrolled successfully, press OK to continue another finger,
then press menu and ESC to return the last interface.

2.4 Enroll password

Press ▲/▼ to select “enroll password” and press M/OK to enroll
password.

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Input password (1 8) according to device’s prompt, and press M/OK to

verify it. Then press M/OK save it or press ESC to exit without saving it.
After saving, display will be on the device, which means the password
has been set.

2.5 Select department

Press ▲/▼ to select department and press M/OK to verify it.

 Note: You can set departments for SSR-capable attendance

machines only. Perform department management before you set a
department for employees. For details, see section 4.3
“Department Settings”.

2.6 Privilege Settings

Administrators: An administrator is granted rights to operate all
menus in addition to the fingerprint- and password-based
attendance recording.

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Ordinary users: An ordinary user is only allowed to record
attendance through fingerprint and password verification and
query attendance records.
Press ▲/▼ to move the cursor to the Privileges entry box, and
then press OK to display the privilege setting interface. Press /
to select privileges, and then press OK to confirm your selection.

Save and Exit User Enrollment

After making sure the enrollment information is correct, save it in
the following two ways:

1) Press OK (M/<-) or ▲/▼ to move the cursor to the OK ( )

button and then press M/OK to display a prompt “Saving
succeeded! Are you sure you want to continue input?”. Press
M/OK to continue or press ESC to exit.

2) Press ESC or ▲/▼ to move the cursor to the ESC button,

and then press M/OK. The system displays a prompt “The
data has been changed. Are you sure you want to save?”.
Press M/OK to save the data and go back to the previous
menu. Or press ESC to go back to the previous menu without
saving the data.

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Chapter 3 User Management

The basic information stored on the popular color-screen FRT

includes the user ID, name, fingerprint, password and
management privileges. Generally the user information stored on
the popular color-screen FRT needs to be modified in the wake of
the personnel changes in a company. To facilitate modification of
user information, our popular color-screen FRT allows users to
add, delete, query and modify user information conveniently.
Press M/OK on the initial interface to access the main menu as
shown below:

Press / to select User Mgt. or press 2 to display the User Mgt. interface.

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☺ Note: 1) “#” as shown in the figure above means the user

is an administrator, and “*” means the user has
already enrolled a password.
3.1 Search a User
To facilitate administrators to locate a user quickly from a large
number of enrolled users, the popular color-screen FRT enables
administrators to search a user by his/her “User ID”.
On the User Mgt. interface, press 1 to display the Search User
interface as shown below:

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Enter the user ID of the employee to be searched, and press
M/OK to start search. The system automatically locates the blur
cursor to the target employee upon successful search. If there is
no such an employee, the system will prompt “No enrollment
data!”.

3.2 Query a Record

Apart from querying the employee enrollment information
(including fingerprints and passwords), an administrator can also
query the attendance records of all employees in current month.
On the User Mgt.interface, press 2 to display the Record
interface as shown below. On the Record interface, you can view
the attendance records of the target employee in current month.

Press ▲/▼ to scroll the attendance record row by row.

Press / to scroll the attendance record page by page.
Press M/OK to query detailed information of an employee:

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To return to the User Mgt. interface, press ESC.

3.3 Edit a User

To modify the existing user information stored on the popular
color-screen FRT, for example, enrolling a new fingerprint or
password to replace the previous fingerprint or password, you can
use the Add user function.
Press ▲/▼ on the User Mgt. interface or use the search function
to locate the employee to be edited, and press M/OK to display
the Add user interface where the enrolled information is
displayed.

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The User ID cannot be modified, and the other operations are
similar to those performed to add a user. To enroll a new
fingerprint, press Enroll FP; to enroll a password or modify an
existing password, press Enroll PWD; you can also modify user
privileges.
Save edited information/Exit the Add user interface:
1) Press ▲/▼ to move the cursor to the M/OK button and press it to save
the edited information and return to the User Mgt. interface.

2) Press ESC or press ▲/▼ to move the cursor to the ESC button and
then press M/OK to display a prompt “The data has changed. Are you
sure to save it?”. Press M/OK to save the data and return to the
previous menu, or press ESC to return to the previous menu without
saving the data.

3.4 Delete a User

The option “Delete user” is in either of the following cases to
delete all information of an employee from the popular
color-screen FRT:
1) The fingerprint or password of this employee is no longer required.
2) This employee has resigned.

Press ▲/▼ on the User Mgt. interface or use the search function
to locate the employee to be edited, and press 0. The system will
display the following prompt:

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Press M/OK to delete all information of this employee or ESC to

return to the User Mgt. interface without deleting.

☺ Note: Deleting a user will not result in the deletion of the

user’s attendance records which can be downloaded to
related software for query.
3.5 Add a User
The Add user option is used to facilitate administrators to add
users. For details, see 2 Add a User.

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Chapter 4 System Setting

Press M/OK on the initial interface to access the main menu:

Choose System from the main menu and press OK to display the
System interface.

System: Set system parameters and attendance parameters to

best meet user requirements in terms of functionality, display, and
attendance.
Attendance Rule: Set employee attendance rules, including the
rules on timesheet exceptions such as late arrival and early
departure.

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Department set: Browse department information. Add, edit, or
delete department IDs or names.
Shift setting: Query and edit 24 shifts supported by the
attendance machine by default.
Data/Time: Set the correct date and time of the attendance
machine in order to ensure the accuracy of attendance time.
Workcode: Add, edit, and delete work codes.
SMS: Add, edit, view, and delete SMS messages.
DLST: Set the start and end time of the daylight saving time
(DLST).
Auto Switch: Automatically change the attendance status at a
specified time. Current attendance status is displayed on the initial
interface.
Bell: Set a scheduled ring time and duration.

4.1 System Setting

Set system parameters to meet user requirements to the greatest
extent in terms of functions and display.

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Threshold (1:1): This option is used to set the extent of matching
between an input ID/fingerprint and that stored in templates in the
ID and fingerprint identification mode.
Threshold (1: N): This option is used to set the extent of matching
between an input ID/fingerprint and all those stored in templates.
The recommended thresholds are as follows:
Match threshold
FRR FAR 1:N 1:1
High Low 45 25
Medium Medium 35 15
Low High 25 10
Date Format: This option is used to set the time format
displayed on the initial interface of the popular
color-screen FRT.
Select a desired date format by pressing . The
popular color-screen FRT supports 10 date
formats: YY-MM-DD, YY/MM/DD, YY.MM.DD,
MM-DD-YY, MM/DD/YY, MM.DD.YY, DD-MM-YY,
DD/MM/YY, DD.MM.YY and YYYYMMDD.
Key Voice: Set whether to generate a beep sound in
response to every keystroke by pressing .
Select Y to enable the beep sound, and select N
to mute.
Sensitivity: Set the fingerprint collection sensitivity. It is
recommended to use the default value Medium.
When dryness results in slow reactions of the
fingerprint collector, you may set this option to

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High to enhance the fingerprint collector's
sensitivity. When high humidity results in illegible
fingerprint images, you may set this option to Low.

Voice prompts: Set whether to generate a voice prompt in

response to every operation by pressing .
Volume: This option is used to adjust the volume of sound.
Select a desired volume by pressing .
Retry Period: If a user’s attendance record already exists and
the user signs in again within the specified period
(unit: minute), his/her second attendance record
will not be stored. (Value scope: 0–60. 0: Save all
the records passing the verification.)
Log Alert: When the available space is insufficient to store
the specified number of attendance records, the
popular color-screen FRT will automatically
display a warning message. (Value scope: 1─99.
0: No warning message is displayed when the free
space is zero.)

Operation Description
Move the cursor to the desired option by pressing ▲/▼. Enter a
desired value in the entry box by using the keypad. Press in
the scroll box to switch to the desired value. After finishing the
setting, press M/OK to save your settings and return to the
previous interface. Press ESC to cancel your settings and return
to the previous interface.

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4.2 Attendance Rules

Count Late: Check-in beyond this time range is deemed a late

arrival. Default: 5 minutes.
Count Leave: Check-out before this time range is deemed an
early departure. Default: 5 minutes.
Press ▲/▼ to move the cursor to a desired option. Enter a desired
value in the entry box using the numeric keypad. Press ◄/► in
the scroll box to switch to the desired value. After finishing the
setting, press OK to save your settings and go back to the
previous interface. Press ESC to cancel your settings and go back
to the previous interface.

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4.3 Department Settings

Establish an organizational architecture.
Choose system from the main menu, choose Department Set,
and then press OK to display the Department set interface.

Press ◄/► to navigate through pages when the list of

departments exceeds one page.

1. Add a department

Press 3 on the numeric keypad to display the Add

department interface:

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No.: The attendance machine automatically assigns work IDs
for employees that start from 1 and increase sequentially.
Dept.: Enter the department name using the T9 input method.
(For detailed operations, see Appendix T9 Input Method.)

2. Edit a department

Press ▲/▼ to choose the desired department from the list

and then press OK to display Edit department interface.

As shown in the preceding figure, press ▲/▼ to choose

corresponding department attributes to edit department
numbers and department names.

3. Delete a department

Press ▲/▼ to choose the desired department from the list

and then press 0 on the numeric keypad. The system
displays a prompt “Delete the Dept.?”

Press M/OK to delete. Press ESC to exit.

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 Note: Only certain types of SSR-capable attendance

machines allow you to set the departments.

4.4 Shift Settings

Choose Shift setting from the main menu and press OK to
display the Att. Time interface:

The attendance machine offers 24 available shifts by default.

Through the shift setting function, you can set shifts for employees.
Press ▲/▼ to choose a shift from the list, and press ► to display
the Att. Time interface:
Morning start and end time: Set the on-duty and off-duty time at
current shift in the morning.
Afternoon start and end time: Set the on-duty and off-duty time
at current shift in the afternoon.
Overtime start and end time: Set the on-duty and off-duty time at
current shift of overtime work.
Press ▲/▼ to choose corresponding shift attributes. Enter the
time using the numeric keypad.

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 Note: Only certain types of SSR-capable attendance

machines allow you to set the shifts.

4.5 Date & Time

The date and time of the popular color-screen FRT must be set
accurately to ensure the accuracy of attendance time.
Operation

Press ▲/▼ to switch among several entry boxes. Enter the

desired value by using the keypad. If you enter a time value in the
wrong format, the system will display a prompt “Wrong time!” and
you need to re-enter a correct value. After finishing the settings,
you can press M/OK to save your settings and return to the
previous interface, or press ESC to cancel your settings and
return to the previous interface.

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4.6 Work code

Salary is based on attendance. There are many work types for
employees. An employee may have different work type in different time
period. Different work types have different pays. Therefore, in order to
distinguish different attendance states when user is dealing with attendance
data, the device has provided a parameter to mark which attendance record
belongs to which work type.

Operation:

Press ◄/► to navigate through pages when the list of shifts

exceeds one page.
1 add work code
On the Add WorkCode interface, press 3 on the numeric
keypad to display the Add department interface:

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No.: Enter number using the numeric keypad. (1-8 digits)

Dept.: Enter the department name using the T9 input method.
(For detailed operations, see Appendix T9 Input Method.)

1. Edit a work code

Press ▲/▼ to choose the desired work code from the list and
then press OK to display the Edit WorkCode interface.

The number cannot be modified. You can modify the work

code names only.

2. Delete a work code

Press ▲/▼ to choose the desired work code from the list and
then press 0 on the numeric keypad. The system displays a
prompt “Delete this workcode?”

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Press M/OK to delete. Press ESC to exit.

3. Use a work code

Display the work code selection interface upon successful

verification on the initial interface.
You can enter a work code directly or press ▲/▼ to choose one
from the list, and then press M/OK to save your settings and go
back to the main interface.

 Note: Only certain types of attendance machines support the

work code function.

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4.7 SMS Setting

SMS messages are similar to bulletins and notices. Operators can
edit SMS messages beforehand and set them to show up on the
screen within a specified time. SMS messages are divided into
public and personal messages. If SMS messages are set to
Public, will show up on the upper right of the initial interface
and you can press OK (by default) to view the SMS messages. If
SMS messages are set to Personal, employees who received the
SMS messages can view the SMS messages after they
successfully check in.
Operation description

1. Add an SMS message

On the SMS Setting interface, press 3 on the numeric keypad

to enter the Add a SMS interface.

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Start: indicates the time that an SMS message becomes valid.

Valid: indicates that the SMS message shows up within the
valid duration only.
Type: Personal: indicates that the SMS message is for
assigned persons only.
Public: indicates that the SMS message is for everyone.
Reserved: indicates that the reserved SMS message is
neither set to Personal nor Public.
Operation description
When the cursor hovers over the text box, press the shortcut key
to enable the T9 input method and then enter the message
content. You can press ▲/▼ to switch among the entry boxes of
different options and press ◄/► to choose a desired value or
enter one using the keypad.

1) If Personal is chosen, press Assign to assign an SMS

message to desired employees.

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Press ▲/▼ to locate a desired employee row by row.

Press OK to choose the employee to whom the SMS
message is assigned.
Press ESC to go back to the Add a SMS interface, and then
click OK to save and exit.

☺ Note: An SMS message can be assigned to several

employees, but an employee can be assigned one message only.

2. Edit an SMS message

On the SMS Setting interface, press ▲/▼ to choose an SMS

message and press OK to edit it.
The operations of SMS message editing are the same as
those of SMS message adding.

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3. Delete an SMS message

On the SMS Setting interface, press ▲/▼ to choose an SMS

message and then press 0 to delete it and all information
relating to the SMS message.

4. View an SMS message

1) View public SMS messages

When is shown on the initial interface, press M/OK

to view the currently-valid public messages.

2) View personal SMS messages

After a user is successfully verified, the user’s personal

messages will show up on the screen.

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SMS messages only show up for 30 seconds, during

which you can close current display interface so as to
enter the Verification interface.

 Note: Only certain types of attendance machines support the

SMS function.

4.8 Daylight Saving Time (DLST) Setting

The Daylight Saving Time is a widely used system of adjusting the
official local time forward to save energy. The uniform time
adopted during the implementation of this system is known as the
DLST. Typically clocks are adjusted forward one hour in the
summer to make people early to bed and early to rise so as to
make full use of illumination resources and save electricity. Clocks
are adjusted backward in autumn. The specific DLST regulations
vary with countries.

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To meet the DLST requirement, the FRT supports the DLST
function to adjust forward one hour at ×× (Hour): ×× (Minute) ××
(Day) ×× (Month) and backward one hour at ×× (Hour): ×× (Minute)
×× (Day) ×× (Month).
Operation description

1) Set the DLST option to ON.

2) Enter the start and end time of DLST.

For example, adjust the clock forward one hour at 08: 00 on

April 1, and backward one hour at 08: 00 on October 1. (As
shown in the above figure)

3) Press M/OK to save your settings, or press ESC to exit

without saving your settings.

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 Note: 1. The end time of DLST cannot be set to next year.
More specifically, the end time must be later than the
start time in the same year.

2. Only certain types of attendance machines support

the DLST function.

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4.9 Timing State Switching Setting

State switching: The attendance machine in use records different
attendance statuses within different periods. There are four state
keys on the keypad for all machine models to set the current
attendance state. The attendance state is switched manually. You
need to press one of the keys to enable the corresponding state.
To reduce manual operations, a timing state switching option is
added to the machine menu.
Definition of timing state switching
When it comes the set times, the attendance machine will
automatically switch its attendance state. The current attendance
state is shown on the initial interface. The machine supports at
most 24 timing state switches.
Operation description
The attendance machine provides two timing state setting
methods: 1) setting on the automatic state switching editing
interface of the attendance machine; or 2) setting through reports
on the PC and uploading the settings to the machine (see Chapter
5 “Report Management”) .The following describes how to switch
the timing state on the attendance machine.

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Press ▲/▼ to choose a switch name and press OK to enter the

Edit Auto Switch interface.

Press ▲/▼ to switch among the entry boxes. Enter the switch
time using the numeric keypad and the switch name using the T9
input method. Press ◄/► to choose a state. After the setting is
complete, press M/OK to save and go back to the previous
interface. Press ESC to cancel the setting and go back to the
previous interface.

 Note: Only certain types of attendance machines support the

timing state switching function.

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4.10 Bell Settings

Lots of companies need to ring their bells to signal the start and
end of work shifts, and they usually manually ring their bells or use
electric bells. To lower costs and facilitate management, HIT
integrates the time bell function into the FRT. You can set the
alarm time and duration for ringing the bell based on your
requirements, so that the attendance machine will automatically
play the selected ring tone, and stop playing the ring tone after the
set duration.
Operation Description:
Two methods are provided for bell settings, including setting on
the Bell Edit 1 interface and setting in a report on a PC. (See
Chapter 5 “Report Management”) The following describes how to
set an alarm tone on the attendance machine.

Press ▲/▼ to view the bell settings row by row.

Press ◄/► to view the bell settings page by page.
Press M/OK to choose a desired bell and display the Bell Edit 1
interface.

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Time: Set a time point of one day or several days from Sunday to
Saturday when the attendance machine automatically plays a bell
ring tone.
Music: Set a bell ring tone.
Volume: Set the volume of the ring tone.
Times: Set the alarm times.
State: Set whether to enable the bell.
Press ▲/▼ to switch among different entry boxes. Enter the time
and times using the numeric keypad. Press ◄/► to choose a ring
tone or a status in the combo box.
After the settings, press M/OK to save your settings and go back
to the previous interface, or press ESC to cancel your settings and
go back to the previous interface.
Note: Only certain types of attendance machines support the
bell function.

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Chapter 5 Report Management

Before using an SSR-capable attendance machine, download a

setting report from the attendance machine using a USB disk or
an SD card and upload it to a PC. Set the shift arrangement report
on the PC and upload the setting report to the attendance
machine.
Download a standard report to collect statistical attendance
information at the end of a month.

Choose Report from the main menu. Press OK to display the

Report interface.

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5.1 Download Standard Reports

The schedule information report, statistical report of attendance,
card report, and attendance report on specified dates are
displayed in the following exported reports.
Operation steps:

1) Insert a USB disk into the USB slot on the attendance

machine or insert an SD card into the SD card slot.

Note: The attendance machine downloads information

onto the USB disk when a USB disk and an SD card are
inserted simultaneously.

2) Choose Report > Download Standard report from the main

menu.

3) Enter the start and end dates.

4) Wait until the system displays a prompt “Calculating &

downloading”.

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5) Press M/OK to take out the USB disk or SD card after the
system prompts “Data download succeed”.

The Standard report.XLS shall be stored in the USB disk or SD

card. The schedule information, statistical report of attendance,
card report and attendance report can be viewed on a PC. The
following reports show the preceding information:

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5.2 Download Setting Reports

Before checking attendances, download a setting report from the
attendance machine using a USB disk or an SD card and upload it
to a PC. Set the schedule and employee information.
Operation steps:

1) Insert a USB disk into the USB slot on the attendance

machine or insert an SD card into the SD card slot.

Note: The attendance machine downloads information

onto the USB disk when a USB disk and an SD card are
inserted simultaneously.

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2) Choose Report > Download Setting report from the main

menu.

3) Wait a few minutes when the system prompts “Download

Setting report”.

4) Press M/OK to take out the USB disk or SD card after the
system prompts “Data download succeed”.

The setting report.XLS shall be stored in the USB disk or SD

card.

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5) Open the setting report.XLS in the USB disk or SD card on a

PC. Set the Shift, State Auto Switch, and Bell Time in the
Attendance setting report. The shifts that have been set on
the attendance machine shall be displayed. (For more details,
see 4.4 Shift Settings.) You can modify the 24 shifts and add
shifts. After modification, the shifts shall prevail on the
attendance machine.

Enter the on/off duty time in the corresponding columns, where

the First time zone shall be the on/off duty time in the morning in
4.4 Shift Settings and the Second time zone shall be the on/off
duty time in the afternoon.

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6) Set a schedule setting report: Enter the ID, Name, and

Department respectively on the left of the Schedule Setting
Report. Set shifts for employees on the right of the Schedule
Setting Report, where shifts 1–24 are shifts those set in the
Attendance setting report and shift 25 is for leave and shift
26 is for out.

Note: 1. You can set 31 shifts at most one time in the

Schedule Setting Report. If the schedule setting report
used by employees is not the report 1, we need to set a
schedule setting report every month and upload it to the
attendance machine.
2. If no schedule setting report is set, all employees use
the report 1 by default from Monday to Friday.

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5.3 Set Setting Reports

Upload the set setting reports to the attendance machine using a
USB disk or an SD card. Then you can view the information of
employees, shifts, and departments either on relevant interfaces
or in downloaded standard reports.
Operation steps:

1) Insert a USB disk into the USB slot or insert an SD card into
the SD slot.

Note: The attendance machine uploads information on

the USB disk when a USB disk and an SD card are
inserted simultaneously.

2) Display the main menu and choose Report > Upload Setting
Report.

3) The system displays a prompt “Uploading table….”

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4) Wait until the system displays a prompt “Data upload

succeed”. Then press M/OK and remove the USB disk or SD
card.

Then you can view the information of employees, shifts, and

departments on respective interfaces of the attendance machine.

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Chapter 6 Data Management

Press M/OK on the initial interface to access the main menu:

Press / to select Date Mgt. or press 5 to access the Data Mgt.

interface.

Delete Attlog: Delete all the attendance records.

Delete all Data: Delete all the information of enrolled personnel,
including their fingerprints and attendance records.
Clear Purview: Set all the administrators to ordinary users.
Move the cursor to the desired button by pressing ▲/▼. Press
M/OK and the system displays the prompt “Are you sure to

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execute current operation?”. Press M/OK to confirm the deletion
or press ESC to cancel the deletion and return to the previous
interface. After the data is deleted, the system will prompt you of
the deletion success and the deleted data cannot be restored.
Reset Opts: Restore all parameter settings on the popular
color-screen FRT to factory defaults.
Move the cursor to the desired button by pressing ▲/▼. Press
M/OK and the system displays the prompt “Are you sure to restore
factory defaults?” Press M/OK to confirm or press ESC to cancel.

☺ Note: The user information and attendance data will not be

deleted from the popular color-screen FRT during the
restoring of factory defaults.
Update firmware: Use U disk to upgrade firmware program.

If you need such upgrade file, please contact technician.

Usually, firmware upgrade is not recommended.

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Chapter 7 Data Store

Through an SD card or a U disk, you can import the user

information and attendance data on the popular color-screen FRT
into related software or other fingerprint recognition equipment.
Press M/OK on the initial interface to access the main menu:

Press / to select Data Store or press 6 to display the Data

Store interface.

1). Device ID
The number of the machine equipment. When downloading
data to an USB host or SD card, there is the machine number

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information data, so you can distinguish the data in the USB host
or SD card between different machine numbers.
2). Download Attlog (Download attendance data)
Download all the attendance data from the popular color-screen
FRT to the USB host or SD card.
Operation Description
1) Insert an USB host or SD card into the USB host or SD card slot on the
popular color-screen FRT.
2) Select Dl att data by pressing ▲/▼.

Press M/OK and the system displays the prompt

“Downloading, please wait…” When downloading is complete, the
system displays the prompt “Attendance logs are downloaded
successfully.”
3) Press ESC to return to the initial interface, and then remove the USB
host or SD card. The file X_attlog.dat (attendance logs) (where “X"
refers to the equipment ID) is stored in the USB host or SD card.

3). Download User (Download user data)

Get all the equipment user information and fingerprint saved to the
USB host or SD card.
Operation Description
Insert an USB host or SD card into the USB host or SD card slot
on the popular color-screen FRT. Select Dl user data by pressing
▲/▼. The files user.dat (user information) and template.dat
(fingerprint template) will be downloaded to the USB host or SD
card.

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4). Upload User (Upload User Data)
Upload the user information and fingerprints from the USB host or
SD card to the popular color-screen FRT.
Operation Description
Insert an USB host or SD card into the USB host or SD card slot
on the popular color-screen FRT. Select Upload User by pressing
▲/▼ and then press M/OK to upload the files user.dat (user
information) and template.dat (fingerprint template) to the popular
color-screen FRT. If these two files are inexistent, the system will
display the prompt “Upload failed.”

Note: The attendance machine uploads information on the

USB disk when a USB disk and an SD card are inserted
simultaneously.

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Chapter 8 Record Query

Employees can view their saved attendance records by entering

any query conditions. According to the entered query conditions,
records that meet the specified query conditions will be displayed
on the screen.
Press M/OK on the initial interface to display the main menu.

Press ◄/► to choose Record or press 7 on the numeric keypad

to display the Record interface.

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1. Two ways for entering the query conditions: 1) Press the

enrolled finger, and the user ID and the name corresponding
to the fingerprint will be automatically displayed. 2) Enter the
desired employee information at ID and Name.

2. Enter the desired date range

3. Press M/OK and the records that meet the specified query
conditions will be displayed on screen.

☺ Note: 1,000 records can be displayed on this interface.

Press ▲/▼ to move the cursor to a desired row. Press ◄/► to

view the attendance records page by page. Press M/OK to view
the details of the attendance records.
For example, the attendance details of the employee with user ID
of 10001 on May 8 are as follows:

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☺ Note: 300 records can be displayed on this interface.

Notes displayed at the bottom of the screen explain all

letter meanings.
Verification
F: fingerprint verification. P: password verification
Status: attendance status.
0: check-in 1: check-out 4: overtime check-in
5: overtime check-out

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Chapter 9 System Information

You can check the storage status as well as version information of

the popular color-screen FRT through the Sys.Info. menu item.

9.1 Record Space

The number of enrolled users, administrators and passwords is
displayed on the Free Space interface. The total fingerprint
storage capacity and occupied capacity as well as the total
attendance storage capacity and occupied capacity are
graphically displayed respectively, as shown below:

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9.2 Equipment Information

The equipment name, serial number, version information,
manufacturer and date of manufacture are displayed on the
Device interface.

Note: The figure above is for reference only. Please refer to the
actual object.

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Chapter 10 Appendix

USB
USB Client
The USB client can only be used to record the attendance time.
The statistical data of reports need to be processed on a PC by
using the specific software, so the USB client can be used as a
mobile storage device to transfer data from the popular
color-screen FRT to the PC through a USB cable.
The user can read this manual accompanying the popular
color-screen FRT by connecting the USB client with a computer
through a USB cable.

T9 input
T9 input (intelligent input) is quick and high efficient. The device
support T9 Chinese, T9 English and symbol input. There are 3 or
4 English letters on numeric keys (0 9), ( for example, A, B, C
are on numeric key 1.) Press the corresponding key once, and the
program will generate effective spelling. By using T9 input, names,
SMS content and some symbols can be input.

T9 english character input (take “Angel” for example) :

Press M/OK to activate the T9 input method, and then press ▲/▼
to choose Pinyin among Pinyin, English and Symbol.

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Input “2” to get the first

letter and press “3” to
‘A’.

Use the same method to

input the other letters
“ngel”

Press ESC to exit

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Quick Query of Attendance Records

This function allows ordinary users to query their attendance
records of current day to make sure whether there are any
missing records or time errors so as to inform administrators to
record exceptions in time.
Operation description
Mode 1: Save the attendance records and query quickly:
The system displays all attendance records of an employee on
current day if the employee presses M/OK within 10 seconds
upon successful fingerprint or password verification.
For example, after successful fingerprint matching, the employee
with user ID of 1 can view his/her attendance records of current
day after pressing M/OK.

☺ Note: The picture is for reference only.

Press ▲/▼ to view the attendance records row by row.
Press ◄/► to view the attendance records page by page.

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Press M/OK to query the details of the attendance records.
Press ESC to go back to the initial interface.
Mode 2: Query directly and quickly without saving the
attendance records *:
Press 0 on the initial interface to display the Record interface.

1. Two ways for entering the query conditions: 1) Press the

enrolled finger, and the user ID and the name corresponding
to the fingerprint will be automatically displayed. 2) Enter the
desired employee information at ID and Name.

2. Enter the desired date range

3. Press M/OK and the records that meet the specified query
conditions will be displayed on the screen.

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☺ Note: 1,000 records can be displayed on this interface.

Press ▲/▼ to move the cursor to a desired row. Press ◄/► to

view the attendance records page by page. Press M/OK to view
the details of the attendance records.

 Note: You can use the second query mode for SSR-capable
attendance machines only.

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