Card Studio — design ID cards for any printer

Card & printer

Your printer

Card size

Orientation

Landscape

Portrait

Zoom 50%

Safe margin

Mag stripe

Grid

Design at 300 dpi — exactly what the DTC1250e ribbon prints. Keep important art 2 mm inside the dashed line so nothing is cut at the card edge.

Working side

Front

Back

Background

Solid

Gradient

Image

Colour

Quick colours

Add to card

Photo frame = a placeholder box. Add the employee photo on top of it, then use Layer → send backward to tuck the frame behind.

Barcode & QR settings

Barcode type

Bar height

Bar width

Show number under bars Printed width on card (mm)

To change an existing code: select it, adjust the settings, then press Rebuild.

Front —

Back —

Selected item

Nothing selected. Click an item on the card.

Text styling

Select a text item to style it.

Printer calibration

Bleed — oversize artwork per side 1.0 mm

The DTC1250e print area is 85.3 × 53.7 mm on an 85.6 × 54 mm card, so a hairline white edge is normal. Bleed stretches the outermost pixels outwards so the printer runs out of card before it runs out of artwork. Try 1.0, then 1.5.

Shift X (mm)

Shift Y (mm)

Use these only if the white edge is on one side, not all four — that means the card feed is off-centre.

Apply colour pre-compensation

No print command can order ink out of a dye-sub printer. What this does instead is send a deliberately wrong colour so the printer's own shift lands on the colour you wanted.

Cyan ink 0% Magenta ink 0% Yellow ink 0% Overall density 100% Saturation 100% Colour you are chasing

wanted

sent to printer

Prints one card with pure C / M / Y / K bars and twelve labelled maroons. Whichever printed square looks right, type that hex into your design — that is the honest fix. If the pure cyan bar comes out pale, the cyan panel is the reason maroon turns red.

Driver side (Windows → Devices and Printers → Fargo DTC1250e → Printing Preferences → Image Color): set Color Matching to None first — Algebraic and Monitor both push saturation up. Then raise Dye-Sub Intensity (YMC) a little for deeper darks.

Print & export

Send to printer Mirror the back page

In the print dialog choose your card printer, set paper to Card, scale 100% (never "Fit to page"), margins off. For double-sided cards let the driver handle duplex and send both pages.

No card printer? Print on a normal sheet

Copies

Paper

Prints the card at its exact real size, several to a page, with a light cut line around each one. Set scale to 100% and margins to none in the print dialog, then cut with a paper trimmer. Card-thick paper (250-300 gsm) gives the best result.

Export image

PNG comes out at 300 dpi — drop it straight into Asure ID or Fargo Workbench if you prefer printing from there.

Offline copy

This file loads three libraries and the Arabic fonts from the internet. Press the button below on this connected computer and it will bake everything into a new file — that copy runs with no internet at all. Carry it to the offline computer on a USB stick.

Include Arabic, Urdu & Hindi fonts (bigger file)

The offline copy keeps every feature, both languages and your name on it. If the build fails, check that this computer really is online and that no proxy is blocking cdnjs.com, jsdelivr.net or fonts.google.com.

Keyboard

Side Front Card CR80 Items 0 Output 300 dpi Design by Mohammad Farooq · MyMandoob.com