In this section of the wizard you are defining the card templates. You can create new ones, edit existing ones, or select card template files. All the basic settings that have to do with producing a card are available in this section. Because CardExchange® Producer is a card production application, a card layout always needs to be created. Other selections are:
Functionality |
Description |
Do you want to enable printing? |
Select this option if you want to produce cards. Deselect if you want to use CardExchange® Producer to encode cards only... |
Do you want to enable magnetic encoding? |
Select this option if you want to encode magnetic cards. For more information about magnetic encoding see 'Using magnetic encoding' section... |
Print front |
Default this option is set to the settings of the card layout. If the card layout is created as double sided, this option will be checked. Deselect this option if you have a double sided card layout and you don't want to print the frontside... |
Print back |
Default this option is set to the settings of the card layout. If the card layout is created as double sided, this option will be checked. Deselect this option if you have a double sided card layout and you don't want to print the backside... |
Rotate front |
When selecting this option, CardExchange® Producer will rotate the complete front of the card 180 degrees and send it to the printer driver. |
Rotate back |
When selecting this option, CardExchange® Producer will rotate the complete back of the card 180 degrees and send it to the printer driver. |
Print backside first |
In case of the use of printers with laminators, and when using double sided card layouts, you want to print the backside first because the front of the card needs to be laminated. Setting this option makes sure that the backside will be printed first and the front side last, which means that the lamination will be placed on the front... |
Send to printer as bitmap |
Most printers printing based on layer information. Occasionally printers cannot work with that, like the Zebra P600 series, the print a correct card with these printers the complete layout needs to be processed and send to the printer driver as a Bitmap for the best result. Selecting this option sends the card layout as an image to the printer driver... |
