eMedia CS Pro Card design

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All  your badges – printed and encoded the easy way!

eMedia CS is a powerful yet easy-to use software which enable you to design, encode and print beautiful badges in a few clicks. It is the ideal sidekick to Evolis card printers:
 

• Full-Featured Card Design and Issuance software
  Design, Encode, Take Pictures, Connect to a database, Print… What else?
   
• Easy from start
  Create a beautiful and useful badge in minutes, print it in seconds
   
• Powerful badge layout
  All the graphic tools you need for beautiful card designs… without the need for a designer.
   
• Excel™-friendly, as standard. Other databases welcomed.
  Power-up your card issuance process by using an Excel database. Supercharge it with other DB types in the Pro version.

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Design, Encode, Take Pictures, Connect to a database, Print… What else?

• Images, text, barcodes, shapes… A comprehensive design toolbox
  eMedia CS offers many alternatives when it comes to design you badge: background image, logo, picture, texts, shapes (rectangle, lines, and circles), cliparts… And when it comes to barcodes, you can use one of the 15 types available, in a format which will be compatible with your barcode scanners.
   
• Magnetic Stripes and Electronic Chip encoding
  You need to encode magnetic stripes on your cards? With Media CS Standard edition, it’s easy as pie: a dedicated step-by-step wizard from start to completion.
  If you need to encode to SMART electronic chips, the PRO version of eMedia cards offer the same type of feature while the EXPERT version offers CONTACTLESS chip encoding.
   
• Instant photo shoot for a quicker badge issuance.
  Thanks to the new ‘Supervision’ feature, you can take pictures in a snap using your webcam. These pictures are automatically linked to the badge design so you don’t have to waste your time in your computer’s hard drive.
   
• Connect to your database, in a secured way
  eMedia CS allow you to connect to an Excel database (Standard version) or other standard types of databases (PRO Version). The software interface allows you to select or enter data quickly and easily. This mode is fully secured: you can manage authorizations for data entry, modifications, or deletion. Everything can be password protected.
   
• WYSIWYG print preview
  When your badge is linked to a database, all the fields are automatically populated with data. A simple click allows you to jump to the next entry in the database. And thanks to the What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get print preview, you instantly visualize on your screen the badge as it will look like once printed.

Easy from start

Create a beautiful and useful badge in minutes, print it in seconds

• Work on a familiar ground
  Designed for Windows 7 operating systems, eMedia-CS look and feel is close to standard office software, such as Microsoft Word, PowerPoint or Imaging software. The standard look of menu bars and icons are intuitive: eMedia-CS is a business as usual software.
   
• The right options at the right time
  As you usually design a Badge once and then only edit data that it contains, Emedia-CS offers two separate modes: Design mode and Issuance modes. Thus, once the badge has been designed, switching to the issuance mode removes all the design options to focus on card issuance options only.
   
• Contextual help for every feature
  Each feature was designed in order to ease your job. This is why a non-intrusive contextual help has been implemented for each feature. For instance, when you add a new object to the badge design, a property window opens up automatically and guides you through the various options available.

Powerful badge layout

All the graphic tools you need for beautiful card designs… without the need for a designer.

• Drag and drop
  eMedia CS design mode is highly intuitive: select a tool in the toolbar to add a new content object. Moving content objects is just a matter of dragging and dropping them to the desired location. Tweaking the aspect of the content object (text size, image border) is child’s play thanks to the properties windows with its contextual help messages.
   
• Control over layers
  eMedia CS now offers layers to manage the badge design. This feature, which is usually found in graphic design software, separates each content object in a separate layer. This means that you can choose to order your content the way you want, bringing texts to front or sending images to back. Combined with transparency parameters, it allows you to make create advanced badge design easily.

Excel™-friendly, as standard. Other databases welcomed.

Power-up your card issuance process by using an Excel database. Supercharge it with other DB types in the Pro version.

When it comes to print badges or cards for several people in an organization, using a database is the second-to-none solution. Linking your badge design to your database enables you to automatically populate the badge with data, such as First name, Surname, identification number…
 

• Excel-Compatible as Standard
  This is why eMedia-CS Standard Edition is compatible with Excel databases. The compatibility with this widespread Microsoft software offers you the power of a database in a well-known format! Linking your eMedia badge template to your Excel database is a 2-click operation.
   
• Connect to any database in PRO version     
  Your organization uses another type of databases or you wish to share common data between different e-Media CS users? Emedia CS PRO version offers compatibility with any standard database (‘Microsoft™ Access, Excel, SQL Server, Oracle, ODBC and OLEDB driver).

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