Patent ID: 8667408

Claim:
A system for generating customized badges, the system comprising: a computer; a printer coupled to the computer; a display coupled to the computer; and a software program stored on a non-transitory computer readable medium accessible by the computer, the software program including instructions for opening a badge profile, the badge profile defining a size, type, and location of data to be primed on the customized badges, providing a data entry screen based on the profile, receiving data in the data entry screen, selecting an auto reduction profile to reduce automatically the size of all data to the next lower size when the data exceeds an available space on the profile, the data entry screen changes color to inform a user that the quantity of data exceeds a quantity defined by the badge profile, the color changes to a second color to indicate that the quantity of data is reduced in size to fit on the badge, the color changes to a third color to indicate that the quantity of data does not fit on the badge; and printing customized badges on the primer based on the received data.