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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.
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).
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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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CUSTOM Custom fields Custom fields are special type for optional data that can be defined differently to fit needs of every card issuer. Through custom fields, basically any value or more values can be attached to a specific card holder or card. This can be for example name of study course, student ID, blood group, card serie etc. Custom fields should reflect the “real world” – information that are tied to a person should be bound to cardholders, whereas information tied to card should be defined as card bound. Values for custom fields can be added using the API for external issuers (most recommended way for External Issuers), or manually in edit mode of cardholders/cards. How to define new custom fields? Custom fields can be defined in NCDB -> Cards Issuers -> Custom Fields
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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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