Improve access control by capturing and incorporating photos and signatures into your ID cards. And you can connect to as many data sources that you need, allowing you to simplify the aggregation of data into your cards.Ĭapture and integrate new data into your cards - on the fly With a complete suite of database integration tools and capabilities, you can automatically create cards with virtually any existing enterprise data, including text, graphics, photos and other information from virtually any data source - from backend databases to spreadsheets. Whether you are capturing and integrating data on the fly, such as a signature, or incorporating data from enterprise back end databases, you can see a live preview of your card designs, making it easy to adjust design as needed before finalizing.Įasy integration of data from all your data sources Support for today’s advanced ribbons for more sophisticated designsĮasily incorporate Zebra’s latest speciality ribbonsinto your card designs, including metallic,ģD graphics, colour-shifting graphics, watermarks and more. Layers make it easy to add static and dynamic data, 1D or 2D barcodes, distinctive artwork, security features and more. Just choose the card most closely aligned with the card you want to create, instead of starting with a blank slate.Į asily build your dream card design with layers Zebra’s sample cards provide a convenient starting point. The highly intuitive user interface makes it easy for virtually anyone with any level of experience to create the most complex cards.
With four Editions, you can buy the features you need today and upgrade instantly to unlock advanced features whenever you need them, ensuring that the card printing software you invest in today will meet your needs now and in the future.ĬardStudio 2.0 - card creation made easy.
Whether you are printing a handful of single-side monochrome cards or thousands of encoded double-side full colour cards with speciality security effects and dynamic data, the well-designed highly-intuitive interface virtually eliminates the need for technical expertise and training.ĬardStudio can grow with you as your business needs change. You will be prompted to enter a name for your label template, as well as the ZPL to use.Zebra CardStudioTM 2.0 BRINGING A NEW LEVEL OF SIMPLICITY TO CARD DESIGN AND PRINTINGĬardStudio 2.0 brings a new level of simplicity to the design and printing of every card - from simple to sophisticated. Go to the “Label Templates” section in your registry settings and click “Create”. Once you have ZPL for your label, you can upload that into Benchling. If a container contains multiple entities, only the data on the first entity will be used. when printing container labels to print information about the entity stored within the container you selected to print a label for. Note on entities in containers: You can use benchling.entity. If this field isn't found on the entity, the value will stay blank. *** To print the schema field value, use the display name of the schema field. It is not possible to print the full location path. ** The location property will print the name of the direct parent location of the inventory item. * The "barcode" for a registered entity is its registry ID. Below is a table of what properties we support for what items: a virtual box, PaperSpace or another program that generates ZPL files) to run the Zebra Designer software. if you have a Mac, you will need an emulator (eg.
Note: Zebra Designer Pro is not compatible with macOS.
When designing your labels, you can use keywords that Benchling will recognize (see below) to pull in data related to the item on to the label.
Zebra Designer Pro (V3) is free and provided by Zebra, but any software that can produce ZPL should work. Instead, it allows you to upload ZPL label templates, which you can design using a number of label design programs.
You can upload ZPL (Zebra Programming Language) label template code into Benchling, which will allow you to print labels with information about items in Benchling.Ĭreate a label template using Zebra designerīenchling does not provide a label designer for you to use. This is where the label will be physically printed. This defines how the label will look, and where data will be displayed on the label. This is where the information printed on the label will be taken from. The inventory item (box, plate, container) or registered entity that you want to print a label for. There are three components to label printing: Benchling supports printing labels for anyīox, plate, container, or registered entity you track.