Affordable edition of eMedia card design software, the Standard Version provides capabilities beyond competition. The program is downloadable from the Internet and does not require a dongle to operate.

Expert edition

Supported platforms

Windows 95, 98, 98 SE, ME, NT 4.0, 2000 and XP

Text objects

Fully customizable: support all TrueType Windows fonts, may be on multiple lines, aligned left, right or centered, rotated from 0 to 360°, true color supported, may be invisible

Their content may be constant, based on system variables (date, time, print counter), set by the user at printing time, chosen in a list by the user at printing time, set from a database field, set as the result of a computation.

Image and photo objects

Their contents may be loaded from disk (with an image selector), acquired using Twain™ or WIA™ (under Windows™ Me or Windows™ XP) or the folder supervisor. Images and pictures may be freely rotated or zoomed. eMedia performs an automatic zooming and cropping of pictures. Direct link to your favorite image processing software, supports BMP and JPG formats.

Barcodes

21 types of barcodes supported.

Their contents may be constant, based on system variables (date, time, print counter), set by user at printing time, chosen from a list by the user at printing time, set from a database field, set as the result of a computation.

Other tools

Lines, rectangles, ellipses and circles.

Database support

Direct connection to your corporate database.

Supports Microsoft™ Jet databases (Microsoft™ Access), Microsoft™ SQL Server™, Oracle™, ODBC compliant databases (IBM DB2™, Sybase™), Microsoft™ Excel™ worksheets through ODBC, Microsoft™ Active Directory™.

A wizard helps you to define the connection to your database.

If you don't already have a database, eMedia Card Designer creates one using your own specifications.

Magnetic Strip encoding

ISO and non-ISO 1, 2 and 3, JIS Type-II.

A wizard is provided to enable the user to define powerful data encoding from constant values, system variables (date, time, print counter), card contents or interactive input at printing time.

Smart Card encoding

The encoding can be performed through any Smart Card encoding application.

Contactless Card encoding

The encoding can be performed through any Contact less Card encoding application.

The Expert version is also able to encode by itself the Mifare Contactless Cards, as to dump the contents of an existing Mifare Contactless card.

eMedia Card Designer can read your RFID 125 KHz tags and stores the tag serial number in a database field or places it in an object of the card.

Printing

Through standard Windows drivers on CR-79, CR-80, CR-90 cards.

Front / Back side printing

Independent management of the two sides of the card. Different print orientation supported. Only one side printing supported. Ability to print n cards per page on printers that support this feature.

Restricted access

Two password may be set for a card to authorize the user to (1) open and print the card in eMedia, (2) modify the card design.

Plug-Ins

Third-party components may provide more functionalities to eMedia, such as: database creation / modification / deletion logging, card print count and date logging, etc.

Plug-ins may be developed by yourself or by third-party vendors.

A public Software Development Kit is available. Please contact us.

COM Server

eMedia is fully COM (Component Object Model) compliant and may be controlled from an external program, such as Microsoft™ Excel, Microsoft™ Internet Explorer™ or a third-party software written in Microsoft™ Visual C++™ or Microsoft™ Visual Basic™.

A public Software Development Kit is available. Please contact us.

Help

Full on-line help provided.

Languages

8 languages available: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese and Russian. Language may be changed during program execution.We are very proud to introduce you to the Ultimate Card Design Software: eMedia CS2 . This version will give you a real pleasure creating and printing cards. It is more fluid, more friendly, easier to use and comes with a completely new design.

eMedia CS2 allows you to design, create and print with a simple mouse click.

eMedia CS2

eMedia CS2 is brand new product.

However, it reads eMedia Card Designer & eMedia CS templates.

• eMedia CS2 is the ultimate tool for plastic cards design.
• Design and edit your cards in a user friendly environment.
• Fill-in your card with texts, images, barcodes, QR-Codes and different shapes.
• eMedia CS2 can read and modify data in your database.
• Acquire your photos from your digital camera, webcam or smartphone.
• Resize, crop, rotate and zoom your pictures with your mouse.
• Print your card, encode the magnetic strips, write the smart chip in a single operation.

What you can do with eMedia

Identification badges Security and Access Control badges Transit passes Membership cards Customer Loyalty cards Bank and Payment cards Official Documents

Functionnalities

Through years of experience and collaboration with multiple people on the card market, we have developed and refined features that allow a complete and unique experience:

Layers system Geometrical shapes Barcodes & QR-Codes Multiple picture acquisition systems Connection to all kinds of databases Encodings

Powerfull Development Tools

Formulas Scripting Plug-Ins COM Server Wifimage +

Printers Compatibility

eMedia CS2 is compatible with all the printer brands and models:

All plastic card printers Laser printers Inkjet printers Ultra portable Printers (ex: Canon Selphy) Adobe™ PDF And many others...

Should you have any question, or any new encoder that you want to work with eMedia CS2, don't hesitate to contact us.