Specifications

54 Printer Manager
Changesettingsasneeded,andthenclickSetCurrenttoapplychanges.
• CustomCharHigh‐SpecifythenumericvalueofthehighestASCIIcharacter
supportedforinputdataonthetrack.
• CustomCharLength‐Setthenumberofbitstorepresentonecharacterof
dataonthetrack,alsocalledbitspercharacter.
• CustomCharLow‐SpecifythenumericvalueofthelowestASCIIcharacter
supportedforinputdataonthetrack.
• CustomCharMask‐SpecifythemaskvaluethatissubtractedfromtheASCII
numericvaluetogettheencodedvalue.
• CustomCharMax‐Specify themaximumnumberofdatacharactersforthe
track.ThevaluedoesnotincludetheStartorEndSentinels.
• CustomDensity‐Specifythenumberofdatabitsperinchofmagneticstripe
mediaforthetrack,alsocalledbitsperinchorbpi.Allowedvaluesare75bpi
or210bpi.
• CustomEndSentinel‐Specifythelastcharacterencoded,whichidentifiesthe
endofencodeddataforthetrack.
• CustomLrc‐Specifyacumulativeparitybitthatisencodedaftertheend
sentineltoprovidesimpleerrorchecking.
• CustomParity‐Specifyacharacter‐levelparitybitencodedaftereach
charactertoprovidesimpleerrorchecking.
• CustomSdsNulls‐Specifythenumberofnullsbetweeneachcopyofthedata
record.Youshouldnotchangethisvalue.
• CustomSdsRecords‐Specifythenumberoftimestoencodethedatarecord.
Youshouldnotchangethisvalue.
• CustomSdsSs‐Specifythenumberofstartsentinelsbeforeeachdatarecord.
Youshouldnotchangethisvalue.
• CustomStartSentinel‐Specifythefirstcharacterencoded, whichidentifies
thestartoftheencodeddataforthetrack.