The card software for ALL card printers
Print cards for your business, club, school or government department in a snap.
cardPresso ID card software is the ultimate tool for your professional ID card production in a user-friendly way, designed to have the best performance with large databases with and without photos. cardPresso facilitates all type of tasks related to card production such as the design, print and encoding of RFID and magnetic stripe ID cards. The suitable product for all type of organizations. Start now the creation of your own ID cards for universities, governmental, large companies, registration, identification, and access control. Free technical support, continuous development, and free updates ensure that you will have the best experience!
cardPresso, the software for all printers.
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| Full Setup on USB Key USB Key Protection Digital Manual (PDF) |
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| DirectShow Image Acquisition WIA & TWAIN Image Acquisition Clipart & Shapes Dynamic Objects (Print Date, Print Counter,…) Built-in Image Editor Card Templates Signature Acquisition Barcodes 1D QR Code Barcodes 2D Auto Face Detection in Live Acquisition Automatic Face Crop Image Acquisition through camera SDK (Windows only) Customized Features through Script Fingerprint Acquisition (Windows only) Users allowances & Operations Logs (audit report) |
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| Text and Image Editing in Card Design Database View Production Mode Encoding View Multi-layout Designs |
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| Print Spooler Management (Card by Card, All print Operations, Wait for user..) Front & Back Printing Ethernet Printers Support Conditional Printing Overlay/UV/F Panel Management (Windows only) Auto-print (Automatic print by DB update) (Windows only) Web Print Server (Windows only) |
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| Internal Database With Photo Connection Browse & Find Records XLS, XLSX, CSV & TXT connection MS Access (Windows only) & SQLite with photo field Search (query) Records OLE Objects & Photo on Database Records ODBC Connection to External Database |
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| Magnetic Encoding Contact Smartcard Plugin (Run external app) (Windows only) Contact Smartcard Encoding (Windows only) Contactless RFID Encoding (Windows only) Internal & External RFID Encoder Support (Windows only) Mifare CLASSIC & Ultralight (including NFC) (Windows only) Mifare DESFire (including NFC) (Windows only) |
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| Free Software Updates Remote System Edition Upgrades Document Password Protection Net License* up to 16 PCs belonging to the same scope and sub-net. * Mac version only supports client installation |
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cardPresso Introdution
3 Videos
cardPresso – XS EDITION – Print ID Cards in a snap! – Your ID card software
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cardPresso – XM EDITION – Making ID card printing efficient!
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cardPresso – XL EDITION – Bringing ID card security to your business!
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