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ID TECH EzWriter

Writing on a Card (Quick Start)

The WorkShop window has a separate text box for each magnetic stripe track: Track 1,

Track 2, & Track 3. Above each box, a label shows the track number and the encoding

format. Characters that are to be written on the magnetic stripe are entered into the text

boxes. In this example, the card is written with the ISO standard format. The chart below

shows the number of characters that can be written on each track of an ISO formatted card.

Entering more characters than allowed for the track or entering alpha characters into a

numeric characters only track causes an error.

Enter some characters to be written on the card into the track text boxes. For example,

enter your name in the Track 1 box, then tab down to the Track 2 box and enter the

numbers 0 through 9, and finally, enter a string of number 3’s in the Track 3 box. See the

example window below.

Track Number of Characters & Type

1 76 Alphanumeric Characters

2 37 Numeric Characters

3 104 Numeric Characters