CardPresso Card Design and Encoding Software Upgrade to XS, XM, XL & XXL

cardPresso ID card software is the ultimate tool for your professional ID card production in a user-friendly way, designed to have the best performance with large databases with and without photos. Whether you’re a novice or an expert, CardPresso Software is the essential user-friendly tool for high-quality, streamlined ID card production. This industry-first solution is the only fully-featured Mac compatible ID card software available.

cardPresso facilitates all type of tasks related to card production such as the design, print and encode of ID cards. The suitable product for all type of organizations. Start now the creation of your own ID cards for universities, governmental, large companies, registration, identification, and access control.

You’ll get everything you need to design, print, and encode professional-looking, secure ID cards. Customize your cards using the extensive graphic and design libraries, connect to your employee database, import and prepare images easily with tools like automatic face cropping, and store data on your cards with encoded magnetic stripes or smart cards. What’s more, you’ll never outgrow CardPresso with the seamless upgrade path to higher editions.

Free technical support, continuous development, and free updates ensure that you will have the best experience! cardPresso, the software for all printers (Evolis, Swiftpro, Zebra, Matica, Dascom, GET, Pointman, etc…)

Cardpresso card designer software, More than an application

User-friendly Software

cardPresso is designed to make card production easy. Graphic design and personalization tools are built in. Magnetic, contact and contactless chip encoding are available. Its user-friendly interface allows anyone to use the software without much training.

Advanced features

cardPresso offers 6 editions in 18 languages. cardPresso works with large databases including MS Access, MS SQL, MySQL and Oracle: Native support for XLS, XLSX, CSV and TXT are also included. Continous development guarantees an application with the most up-to-date card technologies. Minor version updates are available at no charge. Upgrades to advanced editions are available online at any time.

Full support

Numerous online tutorials, videos and FAQs are available. cardPresso also provides free and responsive technical support. All the cardPresso editions have been fully tested with Zenius, Primacy, Avansia and Quantum card printers and encoders, thus ensuring a perfect compatibility between your hardware and software equipment.

The cardPresso software comes in 5 different editions:

XS: Added feature from the base application. QR Code, Production mode, XLS, XLSX, CVS & TXT Connection, & Document password protection.

XM: Added feature from XS application: Barcodes 2D, Auto Face Detection in Live Acquisition, Automatic Face Crop, Image Acquisition through camera SDK (windows), Customized Features through Script, MS Access & SQLite with phot field, search (query) Records, OLE Objects & Photo on Database Records.

XL: Added features from XM application: Fingerprint Acquisition (Windows only), Users allowances & Operations Logs (audit report), Encoding View, Multi-layout Designs, Overlay/UV/F Panel Management (Windows only), Auto-print (Automatic print by DB update) (Windows only), ODBC Connection to External Database, Contact Smartcard Plugin (Run external app) (Windows only), Contact Smartcard Encoding (Windows only), Contactless RFID Encoding (Windows only), Internal & External RFID Encoder Support (Windows only), Mifare CLASSIC & Ultralight (including NFC) (Windows only).

XXL: Added features from XL application: Web Print Server (Windows only), Active Directory (Windows only), Mifare DESFire (including NFC) (Windows only), Net License* up to 16 PCs belonging to the same scope and sub-net. (* Mac version only supports client installation)

You can order full software license here.

Note: Other smart cards such as Java Card, MULTOS, CIPURSE, PIV cards using an external EXE.