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ID TECH EzWriter
Terms & Related documents
AAMVA American Association or Motor Vehicle Administrators
Lo-Co card low coercivity magnetic stripe card.
Hi-Co card high coercivity magnetic stripe card
ASCII American Standard Characters for Information Exchange
BPI Bits Per Inch
BAUD Roughly the RS232 communication in bits per second
Coercivity The resistance of a magnetic field to change, in Oersted
CDL California Drivers License format
EzWriter Trademark name for the MagStripe Reading & Writing product
Host The Personal Computer to which the Reader/Writer is attached
IPS Inches Per Second
ISO International Standards Organization
Hex Hexadecimal, base 16 numbering system
LED Light Emitting Diode
LRC Longitudinal Redundancy Check a form of error check character
MSR Magnetic Stripe Reader
PC Personal Computer (see Host)
PCA An assembled Circuit Board
RS232 Reference Standard for serial asynchronous communication
Slot The card path opening for passing a card through an EzWriter
Swipe The operation of moving a card through the EzWriter slot
USB Universal Serial Bus—a high speed connection to the host
WorkShop Trademark name for the EzWriter software application
AAMVA Best Practices Guidelines for the Use of Magnetic Stripes
ISO 7810:1995 Identification Cards - Physical characteristics
ISO/IEC 7811-2:1995 Identification Cards - Part 2: Magnetic stripe
ISO/IEC 7811-3:1995 Identification Cards - Part 3: Embossed characters, ID-1 cards
ISO/IEC 7811-4:1995 Identification Cards - Part 4: Location of read-only Tracks 1&2
ISO/IEC 7811-5:1995 Identification Cards - Part 5: Location of read-write Track 3
ISO/IEC 7811-6:1996 Identification Cards - Part 6: Magnetic stripe - High coercivity