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Preface Identification Software v1.2 |
Easy and Inexpensive Card Design and Production
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Product Summary | Features | Specifications | Configurations
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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'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.
[Top] 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 150i Card Personalization System.
[Top] Specifications
- icrosoft® 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
[Top] Configurations
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 Pentium® processor (1.5 GHz 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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