Specifications

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you to create a solid-colored bitmap that gradually lightens at the
trailing end and using that bitmap as the card background.
Topcoat
A topcoat is a layer of material applied to the top of a card that
protects the image beneath from chemicals and abrasion and adds a
level of protection against card tampering.
If your printer supports topcoat, you can specify that the entire
surface of the card have a topcoat or that only the rectangles for
certain fields have a topcoat applied. The following table describes
how these two levels of topcoat interact.
Alternatively, you can specify that the content of a field be printed
using the topcoat print panel. For example, you could place a static
text field on the back of the card and set the display text for the field to
the name of your organization. On the Appearance tab of the field’s
properties dialog box, set the Foreground Color to white and specify
that the topcoat panel be used. When the card is printed, your
organization’s name will be printed using the topcoat panel. If the
topcoat panel uses ultraviolet material, the text will be visible only
under ultraviolet light.
A topcoat would interfere with the operation of some fields, such as
magnetic stripe field. For this reason, you cannot specify a topcoat for
certain fields.
Field Topcoat
Full Card Topcoat
ON OFF
ON Topcoat over this
field and parts of
card without fields
Topcoat applied only to
this field area
OFF Topcoat over parts
of the card without
fields but no topcoat
on this field
No topcoat