Fast and Easy Way to Create Great-Looking Cards
Zebra® CardStudio is an easy-to-learn, easy-to-operate card design and card issuance software suite. Whether you’re creating simple or complex designs, CardStudio offers a version for every application with multiple editions: Classic, Standard and Professional.
Compatible with all current and legacy Zebra card printers, CardStudio makes designing, encoding, printing and connecting to databases fast and efficient.
Easy Upgrades and Demo Edition Available
Protect your investment with software license key upgrades—no hardware or dongle required. Upgrades from the Classic and Standard editions to the Professional edition are available with the simplicity of a software license key.
Face Snap plug-in is also available as an option for automatically cropping and optimizing images for production.
To download a demo version or to upgrade your software, visit www.zebra.com/cardstudio.
CardStudio is ideal for theseapplications:
• ID cards• Access control cards• Retail and loyalty cards• Club and association cards• School and library cards• Visitor badges
Cost-effective solutions:
• Single-user workstation software key
• New network-based software licensing
Zebra CardStudio Card Printer Software Datasheet 1
CardStudio™
Card Design Software
Jessica SmithEMPLOYEE #745810
Specifications subject to change without notice.©2013 ZIH Corp. Zebra, the Zebra head graphic and CardStudio are trademarks of ZIH Corp, registered in many jurisdictions worldwide. All rights reserved. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
Corporate Headquarters+1 800 423 [email protected]
Asia-Pacific Headquarters+65 6858 [email protected]
EMEA Headquarters+44 (0)1628 [email protected]
Latin America Headquarters+1 847 955 [email protected]
Rev. 2 (10/13)
Other Locations / USA: California, Georgia, Illinois, Rhode Island, Texas, Wisconsin Europe: France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Turkey,
United Kingdom Asia Pacific: Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam
Latin America: Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Florida (LA Headquarters in USA), Mexico Africa/Middle East: Dubai, South Africa
CARDSTUDIO EDITIONSLanguages Supported:
• English• French• German• Italian• Portuguese• Spanish• Danish• Czech• Korean• Japanese• Traditional Chinese• Simplified Chinese
Minimum System Requirements:
• IBM® compatible PC with a Pentium® microprocessor with at least 512 MB RAM (1 GB recommended)
• Microsoft® Windows® XP, Windows Vista®, Windows 7 or Windows 8 operating system
• Disk space: 250 MB with partial clip art or 400 MB with full clip art installed
• Mouse or other Windows-compatible pointing device
• CD-ROM 8X or greater drive
• Internet access required for software license key activation
• Network access required for installation and use of Network License Key editions
• Software licensing editions available for 1, 5, 10, and 20 concurrent users. Number of concurrent users with Network License Key editions are not additive.
For a complete listing of all supported card and data capture peripherals and additional information, please visit www.zebra.com/cardstudio.
Classic Standard Professional
Download Demo Edition Yes Yes Yes
DESIGN
Full-color design capabilities, dual-sided cards
Yes Yes Yes
Image acquisition (VFW, TWAIN, WIA, DS, FILE)
Yes Yes Yes
Multi-layout card designs No No Yes
Clip art manager No Yes Yes
Printing variables (date time, coun-ters, concatenation, keyboard input)
Yes Yes Yes
Quick card design Yes Yes Yes
Face Snap plug-in No Option Option
BARCODES
Barcodes 1-D – Code 39,128 Yes Yes Yes
Barcodes 1-D – All No Yes Yes
Barcodes 2-D No Yes Yes
ENCODING
Magnetic encoding (ISO, JIS) Yes Yes Yes
Contact and contactless smart card wizard
No No Yes
SECURITY
Signature panel, biometric management, login security
No No Yes
DATABASE
Excel® and CSV database import No Yes Yes
Database connectivity Access®, ODBC connectivity – all databases
No No Yes
Database editing view and conditional layout printing from database
No No Yes
NETWORKING
Network printing support Yes Yes Yes
Multi-user Network License Key option
No Yes Yes