Author: johann.d

  • 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…

  • New WHQL-certified PC/SC driver

    Edited 24/04/2012: an updated version has been published to correct a few bugs. Please read this article. Our new PC/SC driver is now online and ready for download! This driver (code name : SDD480-BA) has been certified my Microsoft’s Windows Hardware Qualification Labs (WHQL) for both 32 and 64 bits operating systems. It targets all…

  • Windows 7 complains on missing driver for smartcards – a practical workaround

    Smartcards and smartcard-aware applications using application level commands (APDUs) are older than Windows and worked very well in the past, until Microsoft suddently decided that a smartcard shouldn’t be handheld directly by the applications anymore, and introduced the concept of smartcard driver software (ICC Service Provider withing the PC/SC framework). This issue sometimes occurs with our…