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General information Getting started Operation Printing a card Cleaning Troubleshooting Specifications Appendix A Appendix B Appendix C

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P720 Plastic Card Printer

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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 consist of a cleaning of the Magnetic Encoder using the Menu Button from the LCD Display. To access the Magnetic Cleaning Menu proceed as below:

1 • Leave power on.

2 • Remove cards from the card feeder.

3 • Insert one presaturated card (provided) through slot on the side of the Card Feeder.

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.

ISO STANDARD ENCODING

Track #

 

Field Separator

Track density

Valid Characters

# of characters

 

 

 

 

 

 

1

 

^

210BPI*

Alphanumeric

79***

 

 

 

 

(ASCII 20 - 95**)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2

 

=

75BPI*

Numeric

40***

 

 

 

 

(ASCII 48 - 62)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3

 

=

210BPI*

Numeric

107***

 

 

 

 

(ASCII 48 - 62)

 

* Bit 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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Zebra Technologies P720 specifications Magnetic Encoder Cleaning, ISO Standard Encoding

P720 specifications

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