All Evolis Zenius, Primacy and Quantum card printers are delivered with cardPresso software, the ultimate tool for professional card design. cardPresso is a user friendly card designer software that provides the best options and capabilities for the creation of all types of badges ion wither Windows or Mac OS X environments.
Six versions of CardPresso are available
Available in 6 editions, cardPresso is the ideal product for any card issuance project, whatever your organization.
- The Evolis Zenius ID Card Printer is delivered with the XXS Lite edition
- Each Evolis Primacy is delivered with the XXS edition
All the specifications of the cardPresso editions are detailed in the brochure. Download the brochure
 | Start by XXS Lite with the basic features for card design and printing using predefined templates, signature acquisition, internal database up to 50 records, barcodes 1D, WIA/TWAIN and DirectShow acquisition as well as magnetic encoding. Create amazing cards using predefined templates and the clipart library, also available inumerous shapes for easy design card layouts. Translated in 11 languages and it supports Unicode from the entry level to the highest edition. Start by XXS LITE with the basic features for card design and printing using predefined templates, Barcodes 1D, WIA/TWAIN and DirectShow acquisition as well as Magnetic encoding. Use the Edit View unique feature for database entry up to 10 records, the ideal solution for small companies. Print front of the cards, use the internal sources to create cards with global counters and keyboard inputs. I have the XXS LITE Version and I want to upgrade |
 | XXS adds an internal database with unlimited records. Create amazing cards using predefined templates and the clipart library, also available inumerous shapes for easy design card layouts. Translated in 11 languages and it supports Unicode from the entry level to the highest edition. Start by XXS with the basic features for card design and printing using predefined templates, Barcodes 1D, WIA/TWAIN and DirectShow acquisition as well as Magnetic encoding. Use the Edit View unique feature for database entry up to 10 records, the ideal solution for small companies. Built-In Image Editor allows you to manipulate your photos by control the contrast, brightness, color balance, monochrome conversion and many more. Print front & back as well as batch print cards, use the internal sources to create cards with global counters and keyboard inputs. I have the XXS Version and I want to upgrade |
 | XS adds, among other features, .XLS, .XLSX, .CSV and .TXT database connection in order for you to use your existing database and take advantage for print cards in a batch sequence. Database View available to manipulate record by record and to have a global view of all records. Link Image to DB field feature allows you to link a database field to an image from your disk showing it on card area, an easy feature to manipulate Excel and CSV files with images from your users. Locate records and print them by using the Find Records section, speed up record browsing and search. I have the XS Version and I want to upgrade |
 | XM adds, among other features, local MS Access connection that supports photos on database, take advantage of your existing database with employee photos and use it directly in cardPresso. FaceCrop tool for face recognition and face crop, use the internal and buit-in tool to achieve the best result in photo manipulation, no need of extra plugins or tools. Create and configure 2D barcodes with fixed or variable source data including from database. QR Code and PDF417 included on a wide variety of barcodes supported. Use your own external plugin to encode Smartcards, cardPresso provides an encode area where you can use a script to your encode application. I have the XM version and I want to upgrade |
 | XL adds ODBC connection, RFID Contactless direct encoding, Multi-Layout card designs, Conditional printing, Operation Logs and many more! With XL edition you can connect to remote databases using ODBC connection, take advantage of a professional software by connecting to a corporate database in order to produce the cards. Contactless encoding using the most common technologies like Mifare up to the most complex ones like JCOP, all PC/SC encoders supported in order to provide you the integration with the most important tools from the market. Multi-Layout card designs together with Conditional printing allows you to speed up print operations based on database fields, print different card designs depending of the value configured on database fields. No need to issue separate printjobs, just send it once and cardPresso will print the cards accordingly. Operation Logs and Users Management to control the application and print activity, use this section to Audit the users activity including the number of printed cards as well as when printed. I have the XL Version and I want to upgrade |
 | XXL adds advanced features like DESFire, Web Print Server and Net License up to 16 PCs. XXL edition is made for advanced and corporate network usage. If we are talking about medium to large business the XXL edition is the solution. This edition allows up to 16 workstations to work and share a database over a network. |