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Command Reference
Magnetic Encoding- and Decoding-Related Commands
03/05/2009 TTPM2™ Installation and Programming Manual P1003645-001
Magnetic Encoding- and Decoding-Related Commands
Track number and type of encoding (ISO standard or hexadecimal bit-by-bit) is determined by
the encoding command used as specified below:
Encoding
Syntax <command><message>↵
!M000000016↵ Encode command
!I !J !K !M !N
Track 1 (only on track 1&2 printers) X X
Track 2 (or center track) X X
Track 3 (only on track 2&3 printers) X X
BPI 210 210 210 75 75
Coding
ISO 7811 X X X
HEX X X
Message length
ASCII digits (30H to 3FH) 123
37
a
ASCII alphanumeric (20H to 5FH) 79
HEX (0 to F) 123
50
b
No. of sync. zeros before code start
c
Auto Auto ³15 Auto ³6
Automatic start, stop and check digits X X X
Read command
!D3 !D1 !O1, or !O3 !D, or !D2 !O, or !O2
a. Custom version with 161 bpi can encode 89 ASCI digits.
b. Custom version with 161 bpi can encode 112 HEX characters and need 12 start hex zeroes.
c. Trailing zeroes are automatically added by the printer, DO NOT add trailing zeroes in the message string!