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🖨 WHAT IS BATCH CARD PRINTING?

What is Batch Card Printing? Batch card printing is a way of printing non-chip cards directly from your web browser. The only thing you need is a card printer connected to your computer, your NCDB and an up-to-date version of standard web browser. Batch card printing feature prints data for each card on one page of a .pdf file. From this .pdf file, you print data directly on your cards. Note that if your cards contain any kind of contactless chip, using Batch card printing isn’t good way for you. Batch card printing supports bardcodes (several types) and QR codes, into which you can encode your data.

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Adding next pages Using “Add Page” button at the very bottom, you can also add third, fourth, etc. page of your cards. However, adding pages is relevant only for virtual cards used within the mobile application created by GTS Alive. Only this application is able to display further pages. If you don’t use this application, only the first and second page is relevant for you. Adding placeholders For each page of your design, a set of buttons for adding placeholders is present. These are “Add Text”, “Add Image” and “Add Barcode”. When choosing any of them, new placeholder is added into your design. Note the “Properties” window on the right side, where you can define specific properties of your placeholder. TEXT For text placeholder, you can choose several values that will be displayed as content of the placeholder when the card is printed. Names of the values are self-explanatory. The only value that can lead to confusion is “CUSTOM”. This is designed to display values stored in custom fields (see further).

Position – you can define the position of the placeholder manually, just using drag&drop, but you can also define it more precisely using the offset (in milimeters) from Left and Top of the design borders.

Font Size – you can adjust the size of text within specified placeholder using 0,1 step. Default size is 3.

Font Color – black, white and grey text color are available

Alignment – text alignment according to the placeholder

Rotation – text rotation. Please make sure your design meets ISO standards before you overuse rotation.

Important note: when the defined width of the placeholder is too short, the text that goes outside its borders will be cropped. Take this into account when defining your placeholders! In case you want to delete the placeholder, just mark it with your mouse and click “Remove Placeholder” button.

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When creating a new custom field, several things need to be defined:
Field Name – use some self explanatory name
Field key – this key is used as the identifier in the API request or in batch card printing
Bound to Card or Bound to Card Holder. This means to which entity the custom field is assigned.
Active – without selecting this checkbox, the custom field can’t be used
Optional – custom fields can be mandatory or optional
CCDB export – sometimes you need the custom field value to be exported into CCDB, sometimes it’s enough to save value for custom field within NCDB and no export is necessary
Anonymize – when the cardholder or card are anonymized, should also value for the custom field be removed?
Further, you need to define for which card issuers the custom field should be used. One custom field can be assigned to more card issuers, and also every card issuer can have more custom fields assigned. Use the integrated whisperer to help you find correct card issuer from the list.

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MAGE For “Image” placeholder, from the drop-down menu, three different types can be chosen:

PHOTO – this adds cardholder photo to the printed card. If the photo doesn’t have correct aspect ratio, it will be cropped using the aspect ratio and height/width of the placeholder.

ISSUER_LOGO – logo of card issuer. Mind that the logo must be added into card issuer profile. The placeholder also supports transparent .png images.

CUSTOM – any raster image can be added from your PC.

BARCODE/QR CODE You can also add a placeholder for a Barcode/QR Code into your design. Currently, you can use the “Barcode Type” drop-down menu to specify the type of code. The following types are available:

QR – standard QR code, readable by any QR reader

EAN 13 – the input string must have 12 digits. Otherwise, the code won’t be generated. The EAN format is designed primarily for serial number encoding.

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If you want this Card Design to become the default one, in left vertical menu, go to Licence Management –> Card Designs and click on “Default Designs” button. In drop down menus, you can define default Card Designs for different types and forms of cards. Again, don’t forget to save your changes.

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💳 BATCH CARD PRINTING

Batch card printing feature is available for ER users (ISIC authority in each country) and personalization center users. Logged in as user of personalization center, please navigate to Orders –> Batch Card Printing page. The list shows you all plastic card order entries (new cards, duplicates) of the orders which are in “In Production“ status and were not marked as printed yet. You can filter out records by your needs using the filter options. To reset the filter please click “Reset filter“ link.

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Individual Card Printing Every plastic card with associated card design can be individually re-printed from the card detail (Cards –> Card List –> Card Detail) by clicking the “Print Card“ button. When you hover mouse over this button and wait a while a card preview will be shown.

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💻 LABEL PRINTING

Although it is not recommended, it is still possible for your Personalization Center to use label printer to print labels for cards. Imagine the following situation: in NCDB, you have just processed the order and you sent it to Personalization Center to print the cards. However, for whatever reason, you need to print only the card labels. How can you do it? Log into the account of Personalization Center and go to Orders -> Order List. Find the “Unprocessed Entries Export” button and press it. The system will download an excel file with all entries, that are ready for printing (each line is one entry – it means one card).

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Using the information from this excel file, you can print labels for your cards. This process includes connecting the excel file with a text editor like MS Word and creating the design of your labels there. The process of connecting MS Excel to MS Word will not be described in this tutorial, help can be found on the web. When the labels are printed, you have to tell NCDB that the print was succesfully done. This can be done through importing the modified excel “Unprocessed Entries Export” that you downloaded in previous step. Into this excel file, to the “Process result” column, write “OK” (see the picture). This way, the system will know that labels for these cards were already printed. After saving this file, import it back to NCDB (still logged in as Personalization Center user) using the “Import processed” button. At this moment, the cards that you marked with “OK” should disappear from Batch Card Printing completely and they should appear in NCDB among other issued cards.

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Note: custom fields cannot be printed through label printing, but only through standard Batch Card Printing described in previous section.

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