User guide

Conguring the Windows print driver

When rst installing the Windows print driver, the magnetic encoder functions need to be congured. The magnetic encoder functions

are found in the print driver’s Tools dialogue box by clicking on the Encoding Settings button.

“Magnetic Encoder” dialogue box

The Magnetic Encoder dialog box opens when the Encoding Settings button

is selected.

Track settings is used to select the desired ISO standard for each magnetic strip.

See the table in this Appendix for information regarding ISO 7811 standards.

Coercivity sets the magnetic encoding to high (HiCo) or low (LoCo) coercivity.

A magnetic strip that is encoded in high coercivity is more resistant to external

disturbance than a magnetic strip encoded using low coercivity.

Direct encoding is used to directly encode one or more magnetic strips from

this window simply by selecting them and entering the data to be encoded.

Click on the “Send” button (previously “execute encoding”) to run the

encoding cycle.

Automatic extraction is used to encode magnetic strip cards from applications

under Windows (such as Word for example). A text eld enclosed within “|”

and “|” characters (or some other character which the user can dene) will

be interpreted as an encoding command by print driver.

Cleaning the magnetic encoder

The magnetic encoder head requires regular maintenance in order to ensure the integrity of the data encoded onto cards.

Cleaning of the magnetic encoder is carried out when the printer runs a cleaning sequence with impregnated cards (see the “Maintenance”

section of this manual for further information).

Repeatedly running the cleaning card through the printer cleans the card feed rollers, the cleaning rollers, the print head and the

magnetic encoder read-write head.

If, in between two routine printer cleaning runs (every 1000 cards inserted), the read-write process fails with more than one card, it is

recommended to run a printer cleaning sequence manually (please see the “Maintenance” section of this manual for the procedure to

follow).