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Datacard® Preface™ Identification Software v1.2
 
Easy and Inexpensive Card Design and Production


Product Summary | Features | Specifications |

 
Overview

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's experience for identity solutions - and Preface is the perfect introductory solution.

Preface offers the essentials in a very simple, dependable software application to issue plastic cards on a variety of card printers.

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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 Windows 98, Windows NT®, Windows 2000 Professional, Windows Me and Windows XP 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

Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0 (service pack 4 required), Windows 2000 (Service pack 2 recommended) Professional, Windows Me and Windows XP 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, 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 NT, Windows 2000 Professional and Windows XP: 128 MB RAM (256 MB recommended)

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