62 P120i Card Printer User Guide 980504-001 Rev. A
Introduction
Magnetic Encoder Cleaning
Use the standard cleaning card process as described in Chapter 4. This cleans the most
important parts of the printer; including the print Head, Transport Roller and Magnetic Stripe
Encoder.
ISO Standard Encoding
980504-AA-01
MAGNETIC
STRIPE
Track #
Field
Separator
Track
Density
Valid
Characters
# of
characters
1 ^ 210 BPI* Alphanumeri
c (ASCII
20~95
†)
79
‡
2 = 75 BPI* Numeric
(ASCII
48~62)
40‡
3 = 210 BPI* Numeric
(ASCII
48~62)
107‡
*Bits per inch
†Except the “?” character
‡Including Start, Stop, and LRC characters. Also note that these 3
characters areautomatically managed by the magnetic encoder according
to the ISO Standard Norms.
Note • Refer to the Card Printer Programmer’s Manual for complete programming
information.