Specifications

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ID Works Standard and Enterprise Version 5 Administrator’s Guide
The front of the card can have a different orientation from the back.
If the cards you will use have a magnetic stripe, it is typical to
designate the side with the magnetic stripe as the back of the card
and select landscape orientation for it. Printers differ in how cards
must be placed in the input hopper for the magnetic stripe to be
encoded. They also differ in how information is printed on the back of
the card, compared to the front. If a test card does not print the way
you want, you can rotate the print orientation 180 degrees without
changing how the card displays in the Card window. See the online
help topic “Set card printing options” for step-by-step instructions.
Size
When you start a new project, the card design is the industry-
standard CR80 card size. You can change the card size to CR50
(another industry-standard size) or you can define a custom card
size. You can change the card size during the design process, but if
you do, you will probably have to move some fields to keep them
visible on the card. See the online help topic “Change card size” for
step-by-step instructions.
Because of the system resources needed to print large cards,
Datacard recomends using the Report designer for sizes larger than
4 x 6 inches (10 x 15 centimeters).
Portrait orientation
Landscape orientation