Year: 2012

  • SpringCard introduces new SDK for NFC-enabled PC/SC readers

    It’s now the final countdown before the launch of new SpringCard NFC products, H512 and NFC’Roll. Both products are not only able to read/write NFC Tags, but they also introduce NFC peer-to-peer communication and an innovative Card emulation mode. The developers who already have an early release of either product, or who want to start…

  • Retrieving the firmware version of your SpringCard PC/SC reader

    In order to retrieve the firmware version of your SpringCard PC/SC reader (CSB6, Prox’N’Roll PC/SC, EasyFinger and CrazyWriter), you’ll need the Springcard PC/SC Diagnostic Tool, available in our SDK (PcscDiag2.exe). Once launched, the tool should display your smart card reader. In the following snapshots, the reader is a Prox’N’Roll PC/SC, but it would be same for other PC/SC readers (CSB6,…

  • Print and encode simultaneously using SpringCard CrazyWriter and Evolis Zenius

    Evolis Zenius is a color or monochrome card printer. Evolis offers SpringCard CrazyWriter PC/SC (ISO 14443, ISO 15693 + 2 SAM) as the contactless encoding option for Zenius -as well as for the other printers in its portfolio. Zenius plus CrazyWriter makes it easy to issue personalized cards on-the-field. In this article we’ll show how…

  • PC/SC driver updated

    We’ve just published a new release of our WHQL-certified driver for SpringCard PC/SC products. This new version (code name: SDD480-BB) fixes a few bugs that have been experienced with the earlier release: – corrected a memory leakage that used to occur as a consequence of frequent SCardControl calls – CSB6 now reports correctly “card mute”…

  • New PC/SC SDK and sample applications

    The version 2.00 of our PC/SC SDK is now available for download: pcsc-sdk_2-00.zip. This SDK works with our PC/SC readers (CSB6, Prox’N’Roll PC/SC, EasyFinger and CrazyWriter). This release of the SDK includes a new PC/SC Diag application, rewritten from scratch in C# for the .NET framework (previous version written in C++ with MFC for Win32 is still available anyway).…

  • Card analysis on NFCWizard

    NFCWizard.com is a free web-based online service, created and managed by SpringCard. Thanks to a Java applet, NFCWizard makes it possible to read and write SmartPoster or vCard tags directly within your web browser! NFCWizard is compliant with NFC Forum type 2 tags (Mifare UL family, and equivalent chips) and NFC Forum type 4 tags…