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Easy and Secure Card Printing Software with BadgeMaker

When it comes to ID card printing, having the right card printing software is essential. BadgeMaker is designed to simplify the process of creating and printing high-quality ID cards for employees, events, memberships, and more. Whether you need a custom design, secure encoding, or seamless batch printing, BadgeMaker provides the tools you need.

Why BadgeMaker as Your Card Printing Software?

Easy-to-Use Card Designer – Create layouts with images, text, barcodes, and dynamic fields.
Seamless Data Integration – Import and manage cardholder information from Excel, CSV, or databases.
Advanced Encoding Support – Encode RFID, barcodes and magnetic stripes with ease.
Flexible Printing Options – Compatible with various card printers for smooth single or batch printing.
Secure and Reliable – Ensure data integrity and card authenticity with smart encoding options.

Print ID Cards with Confidence

BadgeMaker Card Printing SoftwareWith BadgeMaker, you have a complete card printing software solution that offers flexibility, security, and efficiency. Whether for employee IDs, access cards, visitor passes, or event badges, you can design, manage, and print professional cards with ease.

Ready to enhance your ID card printing process? Explore BadgeMaker today!

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BadgeMaker Design, ID Card Software

Design your employee ID with our company card design software

Creating stunning professional employee IDs has never been easier thanks to our company card design software BadgeMaker Design, a core component of BadgeMaker. With BadgeMaker Design, you can create professional card designs tailored to your specifications, including backgrounds, dynamic fields, shapes, images, barcodes, signatures, and passport photos.

Step 1: Create a New Card Design

Start by launching BadgeMaker Design and initiating a new card design. Set your design preferences, including card format (standard CR80 or custom), single- or double-sided layout, Magstripe options, and portrait or landscape orientation.

Step 2: Add Background & Logo

Next, customize your card design with a background and logo. Choose from a selection of pre-designed backgrounds or create your own using the shape or image tool. Incorporate your company’s identity by adding your logo with ease. Simply use the image tool, click on the canvas, and select your logo image. Resize the logo as needed using the corner handlers.

Step 3: Incorporate Static & Dynamic Text

With the foundation of your design in place, it’s time to add text. Whether you need static text for simple designs like gift cards or dynamic text for cards with personalized information, BadgeMaker Design makes it simple. Maintain a consistent layout while accommodating variable data for each printed card.

Step 4: Personalize with Photos & Signatures

Take your card design to the next level by adding ID photo and signature placeholders. These placeholders automatically link to the cardholder ID photos and signatures in your BadgeMaker Identity project, ensuring seamless personalization.

Ready to get started? Download BadgeMaker today and unlock the power to create stunning card designs effortlessly!

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BadgeMaker Design Gradients
BadgeMaker Design, ID Card Software

BadgeMaker Design Gradients: How to add multi-color gradients to your card design

BadgeMaker Design Gradients – Thank you for choosing the card design software BadgeMaker, this post shows you how to add a gradient background or other shapes to your card design.

BadgeMaker Design: Multi-color gradients

Step 1. Add a shape element to your card design

To add a gradient background to your card design, select the shape tool and click on the card. Resize the shape to cover the complete background of the card. Go to the “Style” tab in the element properties and set the line thickness to “0”.

BadgeMaker Shape element
BadgeMaker Design -Add a shape as background

Step 2. Change the Shape color to a linear multi-color gradient

The background color of an element can be one color or a multicolor gradient color linear or radial. Click on the linear gradient icon to create this gradient, set the angle of the linear gradient in degrees and click on the “+” button to add more colors to the gradient. To select a different color click on the color box you want to change.

Create gradients under the style tab in element properties

Linear Gradients
BadgeMaker Design with multi-color gradient

Step 3. Change shape color to a radial multi-color gradient
Click on the radial icon to change the gradient to a circle. Select how you would like to stretch the gradient using the stretch mode.

BadgeMaker Design create radial gradient in element properties

Start creating Badgemaker design gradients now.

Radial Gradient
BadgeMaker Design with a Radial Gradient
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BadgeMaker Identity – How to import data from an Excel file

Thank you for choosing the card print software: BadgeMaker. This post shows how to import cardholders’ data into your project in BadgeMaker Identity. Records are single data rows that contain information of one person. There is a button for adding and deleting a single record manually. To add multiple records, you can choose to import an Excel file.

First step is open a existing project in BadgeMaker Identity.

BadgeMaker Identity

Step 1. Import data

Go to “File” in the main menu of BadgeMaker Identity, click on “Import data” and select to import “From an Excel file”.

Import data from excel file into your card print software.
Import from Excel file

Step 2. Select Excel file

Select an Excel or CSV file with card holders data to import the needed data from. The data from the Excel file is now shown in the overview. If needed you can select a specific worksheet from your Excel file. Now select the row that contains the column names in this overview.

You can also batch upload the passport photos along with the card holders’ data. Select the column, the filename is corresponding with, and then select the folder with the photos you like to add to your project.

Import Excel file into card print software BadgeMaker

Step 3. Bind the data to the correct project column

The next step is how to import the new records and which data column uniquely identifies with the records. Check if the data from the Excel is directed to the correct data column in the project.

The next step is to import the data from your Excel file and the photos into your project.

Your project in the BadgeMaker card print software is now updated  with the data from your Excel file.

Import from Excel file to a BadgeMaker project
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Employee Badge Maker: Add new record
BadgeMaker Identity, ID Card Software

BadgeMaker Identity: How to add a record manually

Thank you for choosing the employee badge maker software: BadgeMaker. This post shows how to add a record manually in BadgeMaker Identity. Records are single data rows that contain information of one person. There is a button for adding and deleting a single record manually. To add multiple records, you can choose to import an Excel file.

First step is open a existing project in BadgeMaker Identity.

BadgeMaker Identity

Step 1. Add a new record

Click on the new record button in the Quick menu, the pop-up window with entry form allows the user to add data and Capture a Photo and Signature.

Enter the needed information for each field and click on the “Next Step” button to add a photo.

Employee Badge Maker: add a record icon
Employee Badge Maker: add a record pop-up

Step 2. Add a photo to the record

A. Select the source of camera you want to use from the drop-down menu. You can choose to use your webcam or a TWAIN camera that is installed and connected to your computer.

B. Click on the “Start automatic capture” button. The application will detect your face automatically and take three pictures. You can select one of the three pictures to add to the new record.

C. The Photo functionality will show you the camera view.

D. Click on the “Capture photo” button. The Photo functionality will show you the camera view. You are also able to upload an image from your computer. Click on the “Open file…” button to select an image from a file.

Step 3. Add a Signature to your new record

Use a connected signature pad to write a signature into this field or select a signature from file. Scale the signature using the slider.

We have added all the needed data for this record and can now add the record to this project. Connect the record to a card design and print the card in the employee badge maker.

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