User`s guide

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Automatic extraction allows cards with magnetic tracks to be encoded from Windows applications
(such as Word for example). A text field surrounded by the characters ”|” and ”|” (or another charac-
ter to be defined by the user) may be interpreted as an encoding command by the driver.
Only use cards with magnetic tracks conform to ISO 7810 and ISO 7811.
To work properly, the magnetic track must be moulded in the card. Never use a card
with a glued magnetic track.
Cleaning of the magnetic encoder
The head of a magnetic encoder needs regular cleaning to be able to assure the integrity of the data
encoded in the cards.
The magnetic encoder is cleaned when the printer is the object of a cleaning sequence with the pre-
saturated cards (refer to the « Cleaning » chapter in this manual for further information.
Repeated passages of the cleaning card inside the printer clean the card transport rollers, the cleaning
roller and the reading / writing head of the magnetic encoder.
If between two printer cleaning sessions (every 1000 cards inserted), the reading / writing process has
failed with more than one card, it is recommended to manually start a printer cleaning process (refer to
the « Cleaning » chapter of this manual for the procedure to be followed).
ISO 7811 encoding standards
1
Bit(s) per inch
2
Except the “?” character
3
Including the Star
t, Stop and LRC characters. The magnetic encoder generates these characters automatically
.
Track no. Field separator Track density Types of characters Number of characters
Track 1 ^ 210 bpi
1
Alphanumerical 79
3
(ASCII 20- 95)
2
Track 2 = 75 bpi
1
Numerical 40
3
(ASCII 48-62)
2
Track 3 = 210 bpi
1
Numerical 107
3
(ASCII 78-62)
2