CardStudio™
Card Design Software
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.
CardStudio is ideal for these applications:
• ID cards• Access control• Retail and loyalty cards• Clubs and associations• Schools and libraries• Visitor badges
Cost-effective solutions
• Single-user workstation software key
• New network-based software licensing
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.
Jessica SmithEMPLOYEE #745810
Zebra CardStudio Card Printer Software Datasheet 1
ASIA-PACIFIC HEADQUARTERSZebra Technologies Asia Pacific Pte Ltd 71 Robinson Road, #05-02/03, Singapore 068895 T: 65 6858 0722 F: 65 6885 0838
Asia-Pacific Sales Representations: Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, South Korea, Singapore, Thailand, Taiwan, Vietnam
Other Locations USA: California, Georgia, Illinois, Rhode Island, Texas, Wisconsin Europe: France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, United Kingdom Latin America: Brazil, Florida (LA Headquarters in USA), Mexico Middle East & Africa: Dubai, South Africa
www.zebra.com
Rev 3 (9/14)AP
*Specifications subject to change without notice.
©2014 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.
CARDSTUDIO EDITIONS*
Languages 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 512MB RAM (1GB recommended)
• Microsoft® Windows® XP, Windows Vista®, Windows 7 or Windows 8 operating systems
• Disk space: 250MB with partial clip art or 400MB 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, counters, 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
MS® Excel® and CSV database import No Yes Yes
Database connectivity MS 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