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Appendix A

Appendix B

Appendix C

P320i Plastic Card Printer

B - MAGNETIC ENCODER CLEANING

There exists two different processes to clean the Magnetic Stripe Encoder. The first process consists of a standard cleaning of the printer. This cleans the most important parts of the printer; including the Print head, Transport Roller and Magnetic Stripe Encoder (refer to chapter 4 "Cleaning" for more instructions).

The second process consists of a cleaning of the Magnetic Encoder using the Menu Button from the LCD Display.

To access the Magnetic Encoder Cleaning Menu prceed as below:

1.Leave power on.

2. Remove cards from the Card Feeder

3. Insert one Pre-Saturated Cleaning Card (provided) through slot on the side of the Card Cartridge.

4. Press the Menu button until the LCD screen shows CLEANING MENU.

5. Press the Select button to select.

6. Press the Menu button again until the LCD screen shows CLEAN MAG HEAD.

7.Run this operation by pressing the Select button.

Track #	Field Separator	Track density	Valid Characters	# of characters
1	^	210 BPI*	Alphanumeric	79‡
			(ASCII 20~95†)

2	=	75 BPI*	Numeric	40‡
2	=	75 BPI*	(ASCII 48~62)	40‡
			(ASCII 48~62)

			Numeric
3	=	210 BPI*	(ASCII 48~62)	107‡

* Bit per inch

† Except the ‘?’ character

‡ Including Start, Stop and LCR characters. Also note that tghese 3 characters are automatically managed by the magnetic encoder according to the ISO Standard Norms.

NOTE: Refer to the Card Printer Programmer’s Manual for complete programming information.