FARGO electronic M30e manual Sending ISO Magnetic Encoding Information

Sending ISO Magnetic Encoding Information

The CUPS Driver uses URL Encoding when defining data to be encoding to the Magnetic Stripe. Any special characters (such as start and end sentinels) must be described with URL encoding to be recognized. See the URL Encoding Reference for additional information.

∙The first character of this data string must be the track's specific Start Sentinel (SS) and the last character must be the specific End Sentinel (ES).

∙The characters or data in between the SS and ES can include all of the valid characters specific to each track.

∙The number of these characters, however, is limited by each track's maximum character capacity.

When segmenting track data, the appropriate Field Separator (FS) must be used. The table below shows the SS, ES, FS and the valid characters defined for each track.

Track	Start	End	Field	Valid Characters	Maximum
	Sentinel	Sentinel	Separator		Number of
					Characters
Track 1	%	?	^	ASCII 32-95	78
Track 2	;	?	=	ASCII 48-63	39
Track 3	;	?	=	ASCII 48-63	109

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