Batch processing is defined on Wikipedia as “the sequential execution of a series of programs (‘jobs’) on a computer.”
Apparently the term dates from when programs were encoded onto paper punch cards which humans fed into the computer. These programmatic tasks would accumulate and be entered into the machine as a “batch’, rather than piecemeal or one at a time.
In relation to AlphaCard ID card software, which offers batch processing, this means that a person printing ID badges – whether they be employee ID cards, company ID cards, security badges or whatever - does not need to monitor the ID card printer as it proceeds through the different steps involved in the creation of lots of ID cards.
This, in turn, means this person can spend more time doing something else.