B: Magnetic Encoder Option 
Magnetic Encoding Type
ISO (Default)
The encoder reads and writes standard ISO track data formats in standard ISO track locations. The following shows the three standard ISO tracks.
Track 1
Track 2
Track 3
Each track can be encoded and decoded with ASCII characters in the standard default ISO data formats:
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1 | 210 | 7 | Odd | 76 | Even | % | ? | 0.293" (7.4 mm) |
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2 | 75 | 5 | Odd | 37 | Even | ; | ? | 0.293" (7.4 mm) |
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3 | 210 | 5 | Odd | 104 | Even | ; | ? | 0.293" (7.4 mm) |
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The magnetic encoder can read or encode up to 3 tracks of digital information onto
Encoding for the three tracks uses the ISO 7811 format.
•Track 1 uses 210 BPI (bits per inch) encoding in the International Air Transport Association (IATA) format of 79 alphanumeric characters, at 7 bits per character.
•Track 2 uses 75 BPI encoding to store 40 numeric characters at 5 bits per character in American Banking Association (ABA) format.
•Track 3 uses 210 BPI encoding of 107 numeric characters at 5 bits per character in THRIFT format.
The ISO data formats include a preamble (all zeros), a start character, data
The ISO data formats include a data field separator (or delimiter) that allows parsing of the encoded track data. An example of separate data fields would be the ABA data format (Track 2) that includes a Primary Account Number (PAN) field and an account information field (for expiration date, country code, etc.).
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