Cardpresso Software Edition Comparison
Cardpresso XXS Edition
Design & Tools
✔ DirectShow Image Acquisition
✔ WIA & TWAIN Image Acquisition
✔ Clipart & Shapes
✔ Dynamic Objects (Print Date, Print Counter,...)
✔ Built-in Image Editor
✔ Card Templates
✔ Signature Acquisition (Windows only)
✔ Barcodes 1D
User Interface
✔ Text and Image Editing in Card Design
✔ Database View
✔ Print Spooler Management
✔ Front & Back Printing
✔ Ethernet Printers Support
✔ Conditional Printing
Database
✔ Internal Database With Photo Connection
✔ Browse & Find Records
Encoding
✔ Magnetic Encoding**
Miscellaneous
✔ Free Software Updates
✔ Remote System Edition Upgrades
✔ Document Password Protection
* Mac version only supports client installation
**Depending on the printer and encoder you use.
For the latest information, please visit www.Cardpresso.com
The Cardpresso licence terms and conditions apply.
Cardpresso XS Edition
Design & Tools
✔ DirectShow Image Acquisition
✔ WIA & TWAIN Image Acquisition
✔ Clipart & Shapes
✔ Dynamic Objects (Print Date, Print Counter,...)
✔ Built-in Image Editor
✔ Card Templates
✔ Signature Acquisition (Windows only)
✔ Barcodes 1D
✔ QR Code
User Interface
✔ Text and Image Editing in Card Design
✔ Database View
✔ Production Mode
✔ Print Spooler Management
✔ Front & Back Printing
✔ Ethernet Printers Support
✔ Conditional Printing
Database
✔ Internal Database With Photo Connection
✔ Browse & Find Records
✔ MS Excel (XLS, XLSX) CSV & TXT (Read-Only)
Encoding
✔ Magnetic Encoding**
Miscellaneous
✔ Free Software Updates
✔ Remote System Edition Upgrades
✔ Document Password Protection
* Mac version only supports client installation
**Depending on the printer and encoder you use.
For the latest information, please visit www.Cardpresso.com
The Cardpresso licence terms and conditions apply.
Cardpresso XM Edition
Design & Tools
✔ DirectShow Image Acquisition
✔ WIA & TWAIN Image Acquisition
✔ Clipart & Shapes
✔ Dynamic Objects (Print Date, Print Counter,...)
✔ Built-in Image Editor
✔ Card Templates
✔ Signature Acquisition (Windows only)
✔ Barcodes 1D
✔ QR Code
✔ Barcodes 2D
✔ Auto Face Detection in Live Acquisition
✔ Automatic Face Crop
✔ Image Acquisition through camera SDK (Windows only)
✔ Customized Feature through Script
User Interface
✔ Text and Image Editing in Card Design
✔ Database View
✔ Production Mode
✔ Print Spooler Management
✔ Front & Back Printing
✔ Ethernet Printers Support
✔ Conditional Printing
✔ Overlay/UV/F Panel Management (Windows only)
Database
✔ Internal Database With Photo Connection
✔ Browse & Find Records
✔ MS Excel (XLS, XLSX) CSV & TXT (Read-Only)
✔ MS Access (Windows only) & SQLite with photo field
✔ Search (query) Records
✔ OLE Objects & Photo on Database Records
Encoding
✔ Magnetic Encoding**
Miscellaneous
✔ Free Software Updates
✔ Remote System Edition Upgrades
✔ Document Password Protection
* Mac version only supports client installation
**Depending on the printer and encoder you use.
For the latest information, please visit www.Cardpresso.com
The Cardpresso licence terms and conditions apply.
Comparison of Edition XL & Edition XXL see below!
Cardpresso XL Edition
Design & Tools
✔ DirectShow Image Acquisition
✔ WIA & TWAIN Image Acquisition
✔ Clipart & Shapes
✔ Dynamic Objects (Print Date, Print Counter,...)
✔ Built-in Image Editor
✔ Card Templates
✔ Signature Acquisition (Windows only)
✔ Barcodes 1D
✔ QR Code
✔ Barcodes 2D
✔ Auto Face Detection in Live Acquisition
✔ Automatic Face Crop
✔ Image Acquisition through camera SDK (Windows only)
✔ Customized Feature through Script
✔ Fingerprint Acquisition (Windows only)
✔ Users allowances & Operations Logs (audit report)
User Interface
✔ Text and Image Editing in Card Design
✔ Database View
✔ Production Mode
✔ Encoding View
✔ Multi-layout Designs
✔ Print Spooler Management
✔ Front & Back Printing
✔ Ethernet Printers Support
✔ Conditional Printing
✔ Overlay/UV/F Panel Management (Windows only)
✔ Auto-print (Automatic print by DB update) (Windows only)
Database
✔ Internal Database With Photo Connection
✔ Browse & Find Records
✔ MS Excel (XLS, XLSX) CSV & TXT (Read-Only)
✔ MS Access (Windows only) & SQLite with photo field
✔ Search (query) Records
✔ OLE Objects & Photo on Database Records
✔ ODBC Connection to External Database
Encoding
✔ Magnetic Encoding**
✔ 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)**
Miscellaneous
✔ Free Software Updates
✔ Remote System Edition Upgrades
✔ Document Password Protection
* Mac version only supports client installation
**Depending on the printer and encoder you use.
For the latest information, please visit www.Cardpresso.com
The Cardpresso licence terms and conditions apply.
Cardpresso XXL Edition
Design & Tools
✔ DirectShow Image Acquisition
✔ WIA & TWAIN Image Acquisition
✔ Clipart & Shapes
✔ Dynamic Objects (Print Date, Print Counter,...)
✔ Built-in Image Editor
✔ Card Templates
✔ Signature Acquisition (Windows only)
✔ Barcodes 1D
✔ QR Code
✔ Barcodes 2D
✔ Auto Face Detection in Live Acquisition
✔ Automatic Face Crop
✔ Image Acquisition through camera SDK (Windows only)
✔ Customized Feature through Script
✔ Fingerprint Acquisition (Windows only)
✔ Users allowances & Operations Logs (audit report)
User Interface
✔ Text and Image Editing in Card Design
✔ Database View
✔ Production Mode
✔ Encoding View
✔ Multi-layout Designs
✔ Print Spooler Management
✔ Front & Back Printing
✔ Ethernet Printers Support
✔ Conditional Printing
✔ Overlay/UV/F Panel Management (Windows only)
✔ Auto-print (Automatic print by DB update) (Windows only)
✔ Web Print Server (Windows only)
Database
✔ Internal Database With Photo Connection
✔ Browse & Find Records
✔ MS Excel (XLS, XLSX) CSV & TXT (Read-Only)
✔ MS Access (Windows only) & SQLite with photo field
✔ Search (query) Records
✔ OLE Objects & Photo on Database Records
✔ ODBC Connection to External Database
✔ Active Directory (Windows only) (Read-Only)
Encoding
✔ Magnetic Encoding**
✔ 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)**
✔ Mifare DESFire (including NFC) (Windows only)**
Miscellaneous
✔ Free Software Updates
✔ Remote System Edition Upgrades
✔ Document Password Protection
✔ Net License* up to 16 PCs belonging to the same scope and sub-net
* Mac version only supports client installation
**Depending on the printer and encoder you use.
For the latest information, please visit www.Cardpresso.com
The Cardpresso licence terms and conditions apply.
Cardpresso Informations
Cardpresso can be used with almost all card printer manufacturers and is ideally suited for card printing. You will usually get the best printing results with Cardpresso.
- Lifetime Licence
- Free Updates
- Free technical support
- 30 Languages
Cardpresso versions XXS to XL can be upgraded to a higher edition at a reasonable price. All prices and information can be found in our shop.
To find out whether your card printer is compatible with Cardpresso or whether your encoder is supported, please visit the Cardpresso help page at: https://support.cardpresso.com/
Please check this before purchasing the software, as returns or exchanges are not possible. We expressly point out that changes of any kind to the software are at the sole discretion of Cardpresso and that we have no influence whatsoever on changes to functionality or supported printers, encoders or functions.
For further information and assistance, please contact Cardpresso technical support: support@cardpresso.com
The licence terms and conditions and the Cardpresso terms and conditions apply. These can be found at: https://www.cardpresso.com/terms-and-conditions/