Specifications

52 Printer Manager
Changesettingsasneeded,andthenclickSetCurrenttoapplychanges.
• Attempts‐Specifythenumberofattempts(automaticretries)theprinter
makestoencodethemagneticstripedata.Thisvaluealsoisusedforthe
numberoftimestoattempttoreadmagneticstripedata
Ifyousetthisnumbertoalowervalue,itincreases thethroughputofthe
printerbutcandecreasethereliabilityofmagneticstripeencoding.
Ifyousetthenumbertoahighervalue,itdecreasesthethroughputofthe
printerbutcanincreasethereliabilityofmagneticstripeencoding.
Avalueof1meansnoretryattempts.
• Coercivity‐Selectthecoercivitysettingthatmatchesthecardsyouareusing.
Coercivitymeasurestheresistanceofmagneticmaterialtotheremovalof
encodeddata.Highcoercivity(HICO)requiresmoreelectricalforcetoencode
dataandthedataismoreresistanttomagneticinterference.Thechoicesare
HICO,LOCO,NTT1,NTT2,NTT3.
• DataFormat(1,2,3)‐Specifythenamesofthedataformatsusedfortracks1,
2,and3.
Forsingle‐trackmagneticstripeencoding,setDataFormat1toJISand
DataFormat2andDataFormat3toNONE.
Touseacustomdataformat,definetheformatsfortracks1,2,and/or3using
theMagStripeCustomTrack(1,2,3)settingsandthensetthecorresponding
DataFormatsettingstoCUSTOM.
• NoDataDisableTrack‐Disablethemagneticstripewriteheadforatrackifthe
trackcontainsnodata.Whenthisisdisabled,anytrackthatwasnotgiven
dataiserased.
• ReadT r ack(1,2,3)‐Allowmagneticstripereadactionstoreadfromtracks1,
2,and3.
• SSA(1,2,3)‐Setthestartsentineladjustmentfortracks1,2,and3.(SSA3
alsosetsthestartsentinelforasingletrack.)Thestartsentinelisencodedon
themagneticstripeimmediatelybeforethefirstdatacharacterandindicates
thebeginningofdata.Enteravaluefrom‐4to4.
• StripeEncoderMultiplier‐Enteramultipliervaluetocompensateforencoder
variation.
• WriteTrack(1,2,3)‐Allowmagneticstripewriteactionstowritetotracks1,
2,and3.