DataCard SD160 - Magnetic Stripe Design; Magnetic Stripe Data Formats; Three-Track Option (ISO;IAT)

SD260L/SD360/SD460 Installation and Administrator’s GuideSD160/SD260 Installation and
Magnetic Stripe Design
Theprinter’smagneticstripemoduleallowstheprintertoprocessmagneticstripedata.There
aretwomagneticstripeconfigurationoptions:ISOandJIS.UsethePrinterConfigurationLabel
(describedintheprinter’sUser’sGuide)todeterminethetypeofmoduleinstalled.
Magnetic Stripe Data Formats
Themoduleformat(ISOorJIS)definesthetypeandformatofthe
informationtoencode.ThestandardISOformat(alsoknownasIAT)is
athree‐trackoption.TheJISformatisasingle‐trackoption.Both
formatsincludedefaultdat asettingsthatdeterminehowmany
characte rscanbeencoded
oneachtrack,andwhichcharacterscan
beencoded.
Yourcardscanusethedefaultformatforeachtrack,orcanusea
differentcombinationoftracksanddataformats.
Three-Track Option (ISO/IAT)
Thedefaultdataformatsforathree‐trackmagneticstripeoptionare:
 Track1—IATA
 Track2—ABA
 Track3—TTS
ThiscombinationisoftenabbreviatedIAT.ThisformatisalsocalledISOformat.
IATA(InternationalAirTransportAssociation)
ThemaximumnumberofcharactersforIATAformatdatais76characters.Thesecharacterscan
includespaces,uppercasealphabeticcharacters(A–Z),numericcharacter s(0–9),andthe
followingspecialcharacters:
!
#$%'()*+,‐./;:<@>=^]\["&_
ABA(AmericanBankersAssociation)
ThemaximumnumberofcharactersforABAformatis37characters.Numericcharacters(0–9)
andthefollowingspecialcharactersareallowed:
:;<
=>
TTS(ThriftThirdStandard)
ThemaximumnumberofcharactersforTTSformatis104characters.Numericcharacters(0–9)
andthefollowingspecialcharactersareallowed:
:;<=>