Product Info
Table Of Contents
- SP_Info_Central.book
- SP Series Info Central
- What do you want to do?
- Answer questions you have about using the printer
- Learn how to use this online information
- Learn more about tasks, such as installation, setup, or maintenance
- Solve problems with printing
- Access an online version of the Printer Guide
- Open help for the Printer Toolbox and Messages
- Open help for Properties or Printing Preferences
- Safety and compliance (FCC)
- Acknowledgments
- SP Series Info Central
- SP_Install_e-guide.book
- Installation
- Before you install
- Install the printer
- Installing the driver
- Upgrading the driver
- Reinstalling the driver
- Troubleshooting Installation Problems
- PC port settings
- Connecting more than one printer or more than one PC
- On the CD-ROM
- Installation
- SP_Setup_e-guide.book
- Setting up for your card design
- How do I create a card design?
- What is a card design?
- When should I perform setup tasks?
- What do I use to set up the printer?
- Why are there several interfaces to set up the printer?
- Card design checklist
- Working with Properties and Printing Preferences
- Changing the type of print ribbon
- Set up for monochrome (K) printing
- Color settings
- Changing settings in the printer
- Magnetic Stripe Setup
- Smart card setup
- Setting up for your card design
- SP_Production_e-guide.book
- SP_Supplies_e-guide.book
- SP_Troubleshooting_e-guide.book
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SP Series Info Central: Setup Guide
which the lines appear on the page. Some applications do not support this method or produce
unpredictable results.
• Text to print can be on the same line as data to encode, but must be located before the escape
sequence.
• Only one track can be encoded per line of text.
• Magnetic stripe data will be converted to uppercase (capital) letters if necessary.
• If you include not-allowed characters within the magnetic stripe data, the printer will beep and a
message will be displayed on the PC.
• The driver does not check the data you send. (The printer checks the data.) This is the same behavior
as magnetic stripe fonts.
On Windows 98, 98 SE, and Me, data formatted with escape codes cannot be located in rotated fields.
For information about the characters allowed for each track format, see the following section. For more
information about requirements for using escapes, see the documentation for the original printer.
IATA, ABA, and TTS character sets
The IAT encoding format selection for the SP55 printer encodes IATA data on track 1, ABA data on track 2,
and TTS data on track 3. This meets the requirements of the ISO standard.
IATA (International Air Transport Association)
The maximum field length for IATA format is 76 characters. IATA allows spaces, upper case alphabetic
characters, numeric characters, and the following special characters:
! # $ % ' ( ) * + , - . / ; : < @ > = ^ ] \ [ " & _
Printer
Manufacturer
Encoding
Format
Syntax Example
Eltron IAT (ISO) ~<track#><data> ~1ENCODING WITH ESCAPES
~21234567890
~31234567890
Atlantek IAT (ISO) ~<track#>=<data> ~1=ENCODING WITH ESCAPES
~2=1234567890
~3=1234567890
Fargo IAT (ISO) ~<track#>(Start Sentinel><Data>
<End Sentinel>
~1%ENCODING WITH ESCAPES?
~2;1234567890?
~3;1234567890?
Datacard HiFX IAT (ISO) ~<track#>(Start Sentinel><Data>
<End Sentinel>
~1%ENCODING WITH ESCAPES?
~2;1234567890?
#
~3;1234567890?
#
#. Only the default start sentinel, a semicolon (;), is permitted.
Victor Data
Systems
IAT (ISO) ~<track#>(Start Sentinel><Data>
<End Sentinel>
~1%ENCODING WITH ESCAPES?
~2;1234567890?
#
~3;1234567890?
#