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Appendix A
Appendix B
Appendix C
P420i 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 proceed as below:
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| 1.·Leave power on. |
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| 2.·Remove cards from the Card Feeder | |||
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| 3.·Insert | one | Cleaning Card | |
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| (provided) through slot on the side of the Card | |||
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| Cartridge. |
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| 4.·Press the Menu button until the LCD screen | |||
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| shows CLEANING MENU. |
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| 5.·Press the Select button to select. |
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| 6.·Press the Menu button again until the LCD | |||
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| screen shows CLEAN MAG HEAD. |
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| 7.·Run this operation by pressing the Select button. | |||
ISO STANDARD ENCODING |
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Track # | Field Separator | Track density | Valid Characters | # of characters | |
1 | ^ | 210 BPI* | Alphanumeric | 79‡ | |
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| (ASCII 20~95†) |
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2 | = | 75 BPI* | Numeric | 40‡ | |
(ASCII 48~62) | |||||
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| Numeric |
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3 | = | 210 BPI* | (ASCII 48~62) | 107‡ | |
* Bit per inch
† Except the ‘?’ character
‡ Including Start, Stop and LCR characters. Also note that these 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.