Specifications

USB Keyboard Emulation Swipe Reader

FEATURES

Major features of the Swipe Reader are as follows:

• Powered through the USB – no external power supply required

• Hardware Compatible with PC or any computer or terminal with a USB interface

• Bidirectional card reading

• Reads encoded data that meets ANSI/ISO/AAMVA/JIS Type 2 standards and others such as

ISO track 1 format on track 2 or 3

• Reads up to three tracks of card data

• LED for status

• Compatible with USB specification Revision 1.1

• Compatible with HID specification Version 1.1

• Can use standard Windows drivers for communications. No third part device driver is

required.

• Many programmable configuration options

• Non-volatile memory for configuration storage

• Built-in 6 foot USB cable

• Ability to convert to HID mode of operation (new in June 2005)

Note

New features have been added to the Keyboard Emulation Swipe Reader. The following

commands were added to most readers that are shipped after June 1, 2005:

ASCII_TO_KEYPRESS_CONVERSION_TYPE PROPERTY

INTERFACE_TYPE PROPERTY

ACTIVE_KEYMAP PROPERTY

PRE_CARD_STRING PROPERTY

POST_CARD_STRING PROPERTY

SS_TK1_ISO_ABA PROPERTY

SS_TK2_ISO_ABA PROPERTY

ES PROPERTY

RESET_DEVICE COMMAND

GET_KEYMAP_ITEM COMMAND

SET_KEYMAP_ITEM COMMAND

SAVE_CUSTOM_KEYMAP COMMAND

In order to determine if these features are available, request the SOFTWARE_ID property. If the

software ID string shows “21042804xxx”, the new features are NOT available. If the software

string shows “21042812xxx” or “21042818xxx”, then these new features are supported.