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SD/CD Series Card Printers OpenCard Data Format Guide 27

Defining Magnetic Stripe Tracks

The MAGSTRIPE operation defines the magnetic stripe tracks to personalize on the front and / or

the back side of the card. There are two methods of encoding magnetic stripe tracks:

• Extract text data directly from the data stream and encoding the magnetic stripe using the

“LINEn” text ID

• Extract magnetic stripe text data already identified with magnetic stripe commands and

encoding using the “ISOn” text ID

Encoding Text Data to a Magetic Stripe Track Using the “LINEn” Text ID

To populate a magnetic stripe track with text data not originally identified as magnetic stripe

data in the data stream, simply use the “LINEn” text ID in conjunction with the

datacard:trackType definition, as shown below.

Encoding Magnetic Stripe Text on a Magnetic Stripe Track Using the “ISOn” Text ID

To populate a magnetic stripe track with prepared magnetic stripe date, OpenCard data stream

uses the following magnetic stripe data identifiers:

When the OpenCard data stream has text data prepared for magnetic stripe in this way, identify

which information encodes to each track using the “ISOn” text ID using the following rules:

• The text ID must be “ISO1” for track 1, “ISO2” for track 2, or “ISO3” track 3.

• The datacard:trackType value must match the ID name.

MAGSTRIPE Example 1

trackType Start Sentinel End Sentinel

ISO1 (IATA) % (25 hex) ? (3F hex)

ISO2 (ABA) ; (3B hex) ? (3F hex)

ISO3 (TTS) _ (5F hex) OR _; (5F3B hex) ? (3F hex)