Card printing
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Building Technologies
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Fire Safety & Security Products
10.03.2010
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Card printing
The card (badge) printing facility can be used for adding images (photos) on the
cards but also for printing receipts to be signed by the card holder (when handing
out cards).
However, cards can be printed without images and the function may also be used
for printing receipt only.
Some steps should be considered before any cards can be printed.
Designing of card template(s) and storing them in a library.
Designing of receipt templates (optionally).
Linking the photos to card holders in the database.
Printing one or more cards can then be performed.
21.1
Pre-requisites
These are the requirements to be able to use card printing:
A third party card printer installed. It is important that this printer is Windows
compliant. Please read the manufacturers documentation how to install.
Note that for receipt printing a standard Windows printer may be used.
Suitable access cards aimed for printing.
One PC chosen to store the main set of cardholder photos.
Digital Photo equipment to create and prepare suitable photos.
The photos are stored in a separate database in the PC used.
21.2
Template design tool
In the SiPass Entro software there are a special tool that is used for creating and
maintaining both card templates and/or receipt templates.
The templates are used when printing the actual cards and means that the same
information can easily be printed in different layouts.
21.2.1
Static or dynamic information
It is also possible to use both static and dynamic information in the template:
Static means that this will appear on all cards using the same template, e g a
company logotype.
Dynamic means that it will be linked to the cardholder data, e g card number.
This information is fetched from the fields in person’s tab.