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How do I print student and employee ID cards in colour, save them as a PDF, and change the card's design or colour?

Where in EDUBase: Extras › Print Certificates or Date Sheets

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Printing student cards

Student card kahan se print hota hai / kahan se niklega: from the certificates screen (Print Certificates or Date Sheets), where the card is one of the documents.

  1. Go to Extras › Print Certificates or Date Sheets
  2. Select the students (filter to the class you want)
  3. In Select Document choose the card — there are two versions: Student Card (the old design) and Student Card New (the new design). Check both and use whichever matches your colours and logo best
  4. Press Print Selected Document

📺 HOW PRINT STUDENT CARD — https://youtu.be/vwKzjb0LJAQ

Printing employee cards

Go to HRM › Manage Employees › Manage Employees, tick the staff, open Select Document To Print and choose the employee card. Cards print tiled on an A4 sheet.

📺 HOW PRINT EMPLOYEE CARD — https://youtu.be/RBoQPjv76ww

The colours come out white — turn on "Background graphics"

This is a browser print setting, not a software fault. When the print box opens (Ctrl+P):

  1. Open More settings
  2. Tick Background graphics
  3. Print

Without that tick the browser drops every background colour, so the card prints on plain white. The same applies to employee cards.

Saving the cards as a colour PDF

In the same print box (Ctrl+P), change Destination from your printer to Save as PDF (some computers call it Print as PDF / Microsoft Print to PDF), turn on Background graphics under More settings, then Save. You get a PDF in full colour to send or take to a print shop. Cards can be saved as PDF only — there is no JPG download.

📺 How Save PDF — https://youtu.be/5VVgRBjsaB4

Changing the card's colour (e.g. to green) and logo

The card takes its colours and logo from your campus:

  • Colour — go to Core › Campus, press the palette button (Change Theme) on your campus row, set the Primary / Secondary / Accent / Neutral colours on Select Branding Color Theme, and press Save Theme (or Update Theme). Reprint the cards.
  • Logo — Core › Campus, edit the campus and upload the logo there.

The same theme and logo also feed result cards, certificates and other printouts.

📺 UPDATE CAMPUS INFO & APPLY CUSTOM COLOUR THEMES — https://youtu.be/en477gKc_n8

Photo on the card

Upload a passport-size photo on the student's record. Photos of other shapes still print, but can sit higher or lower in the frame.

QR code on the card

The student card can carry the student's QR code, which the QR Attendance and Face Attendance apps scan. To print only the codes, use Extras › Student QR Code.

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