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ID Works
Preface ID Software
Easy and inexpensive card design
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Product Summary
Datacard® Preface™ ID software is specifically designed for
entry-level ID card issuers. It features an easy, intuitive
and complete introductory software package. Corporate ID,
education, membership and loyalty identification programs
rely on Datacard Group's experience for identity solutions
-- and Preface software is the perfect introductory
solution.
Preface software offers the essentials in a very simple,
dependable software application to issue plastic cards on a
variety of card printers. |
Features
- Simple user interface
for card design and card production in English, French
or Spanish
- Flexible card design
with text, static text, static graphic, photo and bar
code fields
- Allows users to begin
entering data, capturing photo images, encoding and
issuing cards quickly and easily
- Single, pre-configured
database table automatically created for every card
design
- Choice of creating a
new card design or modifying an existing sample design
- Compatible with
Datacard® ImageCard® IV, ImageCard® and UltraGrafix®
Select and Magna™ Class card printers, as well as the
Datacard® 150i Card Personalization System and
Datacard® SP35 and SP55 card printers.
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Specifications
- Microsoft® Windows®-based operation on Microsoft®
Windows® XP, 2000 Professional, 98, Me and Windows NT®
operating platforms
- Simultaneous display of data entry window and card
preview (front and back sides)
- Microsoft® Access 2000 database table automatic
creation for every card design
- Capture through TWAIN, Video for Windows or file
input
- Magnetic stripe encoding through printer fonts
- Configurable operator prompts
- Ability to set font sizes, font colors, background
colors and bitmaps
- Multiple field selection and alignment
- User-definable tab order of data entry fields
- Up to 27 variable text fields per card design
- Unlimited static text and static graphic fields
- Maximum of 3 bar codes per card design
- One photo field per card design
- Border option for photo field
- .BMP, .JPG, .TIF, .WMF, .TGA, .PCX image import and
export formats
- Bar code support for Codabar, Code 128-Auto, Code
39, Code 39 Extended, Interleaved 2 of 5, EAN/JAN13, EAN/JAN8,
UPCA, and UPCE-11 Digit
- Search capability for cardholder data
- Software license key
- Online help and online reference library (in
English, French and Spanish)
- Documentation (in English, French and Spanish),
installation, training, and Help Desk support
Microsoft Windows XP, 2000 Professional (Service Pack 2
recommended), and Windows 98 and Windows NT (Service Pack 4
required) operating systems:
- 233 MHz Intel® Pentium® processor (1.5 GHz Intel®
Pentium® IV recommended)
- 800 x 600 minimum screen resolution (1024 x 768
recommended)
- 16-bit color
- At least 35 MB available hard disk space for Preface
software (note: additional space required for multiple
card projects and database information entered)
- 15 MB disk space for Adobe® Acrobat Reader® software
required to access documents in the Online Reference
Library (if not already installed)
- CD-ROM drive
- Memory requirements:
- Windows 98 and Windows Me: 64MB RAM (128MB
recommended)
- Windows XP, 2000 Professional and Windows NT:
128 MB RAM (256 MB recommended)
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