DataCard SD260 - Page 68

54 Printer Manager
Changethesettingsasneeded,andthenclickSetCurrenttoapplythechanges.
 CustomCharHigh—SpecifythenumericvalueofthehighestASCIIcharactersupportedfor
inputdataonthetrack.
 CustomCharLength—Setthenumberofbitstorepresentonecharacterofdataonthetrack,
alsocalledbitspercharacter.
 CustomCharLow—SpecifythenumericvalueofthelowestASCIIcharactersupportedfor
inputdataonthetrack.
 CustomCharMask—SpecifythemaskvaluethatissubtractedfromtheASCIInumericvalue
togettheencodedvalue.
 CustomCharMax—Specifythemaximumnumberofdatacharactersforthetrack.Thevalue
doesnotincludethestartsentinelorendsentinel.
 CustomDensity—Specifythenumberofdatabitsperinchofmagneticstripemediaforthe
track,alsocalledbitsperinchorbpi.Allowedvaluesare75bpior210bpi.
 CustomEndSentinel—Specifythelastcharacterencoded,whichidentifiestheendof
encodeddataforthetrack.
 CustomLrc—Specifyacumulativeparitybitthatisencodedaftertheendsentineltoprovide
simpleerrorchecking.
 CustomParity—Specifyacharacter‐levelparitybitencodedaftereachcharactertoprovide
simpleerrorchecking.
 CustomSdsNulls—Thenumberofnullsbetweeneachcopyoftheda tarecord.Youshouldnot
changethisvalue.
 CustomSdsRecords—Thenumberoftimestoencodethedatarecord.Youshouldnotchange
thisvalue.
 CustomSdsSs—Thenumberofstartsentinelsbeforeeachdatarecord.Youshouldnot
changethisvalue.
 CustomStartSentinel—Specifythefirstcharacterencoded,whichidentifiesthestartofthe
encodeddataforthetrack.