CARD PRINT 1.0


STANDARD VERSION 1.0
Price: US$80
Release Date:
12/15/2002

Easy, inexpensive and feature-rich
Card Print lets you create any number of professional-looking, full-
color ID badge designs. You can import eye-catching graphics to use as card backgrounds and personalize your designs with your organization's logo. Link your design to information and photographs maintained in your database. The easy database feature allows you to use it as a simple data entry and print software. You can add photographs from existing files, digital cameras and scanners, or capture them live with any camcorder. You can also add bar codes to your design - all within the same software! Even if you're not a design professional, you'll get superb results in minutes with Card Print.

Extremely easy to install, learn and use
Card Print software is configured so you can begin designing and printing cards in a matter of minutes. Installation is a fast, one-step process. It also features an intuitive user interface and “point-and-click” simplicity, Card Print makes it easy for even first-time operators to capture images, manage databases, design card layouts and print IDs. Menu-driven operation and tutorials simplify every step of the process—for faster card production and fewer errors. Preview displays also let you see photo IDs take shape while you enter data, giving you the ability to proof cards before you print them.

Integrate a variety of card printers and input devices
Card Print
works with plastic card printers from manufacturers such as Zebra/Eltron, Fargo, and DataCard, or to any Windows compatible printer to quickly and cost effectively print full color ID cards. The software also lets you integrate any TWAIN-compatible camera, scanner or other input device.

Key features:

  • Integrated environment provides everything at your fingertips for efficient operation.
    Pull-down menus, "point-and-click" navigation and intuitive design maximize simplicity

  • True WYSIWYG environment that lets you see, on your computer screen, exactly how the card will look when printed.
  • CropBox® - automatic cropping of image without affecting the original image file
  • Loading image files through masked input boxes

  • Automatic "reduce text to fit" formatting

  • Auto-save images as separate files

  • Image Ghosting from 1-99%

  • Private clipboard

  • Import MS Excel files, MS Access database files and ASCII text files

  • Export MS Excel file, HTML file and ASCII text database file

  • Option to print one or both sides

  • Supports the design of both the front and back sides of the card

  • Variable information: Counters, time, date, keyboard input

  • Ability to set font sizes, font colors, background colors, and bitmaps

  • Internal database (Encrypted)

  • Database table automatically created for every card design

  • Dynamically link text/graphics to database fields

  • Search for record and scroll through database records

  • Sort database records

  • Configure your own production field prompts

  • Enter information that is not printed on the card into a database

  • Twain interface to acquire photos from digital cameras, scanners or other twain device
  • Video for Windows support for real time image capture
  • Print via Windows drivers - allows support for virtually any printer, including page printers
  • Comprehensive set of image retouch tools
  • Simultaneous display of data entry window and card preview

  • Microsoft® Windows®-based operation on Windows 98, Windows NT® and Windows 2000 Professional and Windows XP operating platforms

  • Multiple bar code types supported:  (23 types)
    Codabar, Code 39 (3 of 9), Code 93, Code128A, Code128B, Code128C, EAN128A, EAN128B, EAN128C, EAN-13, EAN-8, Extended Code 39, Extended Code 93,
    Industrial 2 of 5, Interleaved  2 of 5, Matrix 2 of 5, MSI Plessey, UPC A, UPC E0, UPC E1, UPC Supp2, UPC Supp5, and Zip+4 Postnet
     

PROFESSIONAL VERSION 1.0
Under development

Key features:

  • All features of Standard Edition

  • Logins with separate access rights for each user: design, input/edit data or print

  • Protect fields from view or edit

  • History of badge printing

  • User defined reports

  • Add, delete, edit, reorder database fields

  • Option to use SQL searches

  • Save image on a database field

  • Batch printing

  • Database query - Select the desired record set using queries

  • Find function - Locate specific records

  • ODBC support provides maximum connectivity to external databases, including Access, Paradox, FoxPro, Excel, Text, SQL

  • Definable views - Show and hide fields from database

  • Database report - Create, save, and print a listing of your database, including photos
     

System Requirements:

Microsoft® Windows® 98 or Microsoft® Windows® Me operating system

  • Minimum

    • Pentium® 233 processor

    • 50 MB hard disk space

    • 32 MB RAM

    • 800 x 600 pixel video adapter with 16K colors (24-bit adapter recommended)

  • Recommended

    • Pentium® III processor

    • 128 MB RAM

    • 800 x 600 screen resolution

Microsoft® Windows® XP, Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Professional (service pack 2 recommended), Microsoft® Windows® NT operating system with service pack 4 (service pack 6 recommended)

  • Minimum

    • Pentium® 233 processor

    • 50 MB hard disk space

    • 64 MB RAM

    • 800 x 600 pixel video adapter with 16K colors (24-bit adapter recommended)

  • Recommended

    • Pentium® IV processor

    • 256 MB RAM

    • 800 x 600 screen resolution