Specifications

30 Plan and Create the Card Design
ID Works Standard and Enterprise Version 5 Administrator’s Guide
Smart Card Field
You create a smart card field to block out the area of your card that is
used by the smart card chip. Seeing the field will help you remember
not to place any other field on top of a smart card chip that requires
contact. You can, however, place fields on the opposite side of the
card from the smart card chip. ID Works Designer places the smart
card field to comply with ISO 7816-2, the ISO/ANSI financial
community standard. If the cards you use follow a different standard,
you must move and size the smart card field to correspond with the
position and size of the chip in your cards.
You can specify that your card stock contains contactless smart card
chips. If you specify contactless smart card chips, the appearance of
the field changes and you can print and apply topcoat over the field.
You can specify the encoding device, as well as the configuration of
the device, to be used for the smart card. You do this on the
Encoding tab of the Edit Field Properties [Smart Card] dialog box.
See the online help topic “Add a smart card field to a card” for step-
by-step instructions.
Programming of the smart card chip is done outside of the ID Works
software, by another application.
Smart card field