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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
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
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| Field Separator | Track density | Valid Characters | # of characters |
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| ^ | 210BPI* | Alphanumeric | 79*** |
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| (ASCII 20 - 95**) |
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2 |
| = | 75BPI* | Numeric | 40*** |
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| (ASCII 48 - 62) |
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3 |
| = | 210BPI* | Numeric | 107*** |
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| (ASCII 48 - 62) |
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* Bit per inch |
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** Except the “?” character |
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*** 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.
