DataCard SD160

28 Elements of Card Design
Single-Track Option (JIS)
Thedefaultdataformatforasingle‐trackmagneticstripemoduleistheJIS(JapaneseIndustrial
Standard)TypeIIformat.
ThemaximumnumberofcharactersfortheJISformatis69characters.Thesecharacterscan
includespaces,numericcharacters(0–9),uppercasealphabeticcharacters(A–Z),lowercase
alphabeticcharacters(a–z),andthefollowing
specialcharacters:
!"#$%&'()*+,‐./:;<=>?@[]^_~{|}~
APCrunningaJapaneseeditionofasupportedWindowsoperatingsystemalsosupports
Japanese‐languagespecialcharactersand55
Katakanacharacters.Theyincludethefollowing:
 Specialcharacters:
 45Katakanacharacters:
 10Katakanacharacters:
EachtimeyoustartorstopusingJapanese‐languagecharacters,theCardPrinterDriveraddsa
hiddencharacter.Eachhiddencharacterreducesthenumberofcharactersyoucanencodeby
onecharacter.