SECTION 1. FEATURES AND SPECIFICATIONS
The USB (Universal Serial Bus), HID Keyboard Emulation, Swipe Reader is a compact magnetic stripe card reader, which conforms to ISO standards. The Reader is compatible with the PC series of personal computers and emulates the operation of a keyboard. A card is read by sliding it past the head either forward or backward.
The reader emulates a USB Human Interface Device (HID) United States keyboard or optionally all international keyboards using ALT ASCII code keypad key combinations. This allows host applications designed to acquire card data from keyboard input to seamlessly acquire the card data from the USB swipe reader.
Caution
If another keyboard is connected to the same host as this device and a key is pressed on the other keyboard while this device is transmitting, then the data transmitted by this device may get corrupted.
Because of potential "data interleave" issues associated with the USB Keyboard interface, MagTek recommends that the USB Keyboard Emulation MSR product should only be used if the application requires magnetic stripe data to be provided via the keyboard input. If previous applications were based upon
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 standards and others such as ISO track 1 format on track 2 or 3.
•Reads up to three tracks of card data
•Compatible with USB specification Revision 1.1
•Compatible with HID specification Version 1.1
•Can use standard Windows HID drivers for communications. No third part device driver is required.
•Many programmable configuration options
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HARDWARE CONFIGURATIONS
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