Magnetic Card Stripe Encoder

ISO Standard Encoding

ISO Standard Encoding

Track #

Field

Track

Valid

# of

Separator

Density

Characters

characters

 

 

 

 

 

 

1

^

210 BPI*

Alphanumeric

79‡

 

 

 

(ASCII 20~95†)

 

 

 

 

 

 

2

=

75 BPI*

Numeric

40‡

 

 

 

(ASCII 48~62)

 

 

 

 

 

 

3

=

210 BPI*

Numeric

107‡

 

 

 

(ASCII 48~62)

 

 

 

 

 

 

*Bits per inch

 

 

 

 

†Except the “?” character

‡Including Start, Stop, and LRC 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.

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