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XID 8300 Printer Driver
3.5.6 Material Usage
The "Material Usage" area shows the expected usage of color and retransfer ribbon using the currently
selected options.
In some rare combinations, the "Save Material" option will become available and lets you enforce material
saving over production speed.
3.5.7 Sample of magnetic stripe Encoding
Sending Track Information
Magnetic track data is sent in the form of text strings from the application software to the printer driver, along
with all of the other printable objects within your card design. For the printer driver to differentiate between
magnetic track data and the rest of the printable objects, the magnetic track data strings must be uniquely
"tagged" and formatted by using the "System" font. In other words, specific characters must be added to the
magnetic track data for the printer driver to know which data is to be encoded, which tracks to encode, when
the track data stops and starts and so on. When using the Generic Printer Driver, you must manually add
these characters to the string of magnetic track data. If these characters are not added to the track data, the
text intended for the magnetic track will most likely appear as printed text on the card. To avoid this, track
information must be entered as described below.
When entering track data, the "~" character is entered first, followed by the track number (1, 2, or 3) on which
you intend to encode the data. The data to be encoded should then follow. The first character of this data
string must be the track’s specific SS (Start Sentinel), and the last character must be the specific ES (End
Sentinel). The characters or data in between the SS and the ES can include all of the valid characters
specific to each track. The number of these characters, however, is limited by each track’s maximum
character capacity. When segmenting track data, the appropriate FS (Field Separator) must be used. The
following table shows the SS, ES, FS, and valid characters defined for each track. (Track character limits are
enforced by the TR-1, TR-2, and TR-3/NNT format options selected in the Magnetic Encoding properties.)
Note: This data must always appear on the first page of your document.