54 Printer Manager
Changethesettingsasneeded,andthenclickSetCurrenttoapplythechanges.
CustomCharHigh—SpecifythenumericvalueofthehighestASCIIcharactersupportedfor
inputdataonthetrack.
CustomCharLength—Setthenumberofbitstorepresentonecharacterofdataonthetrack,
alsocalledbitspercharacter.
CustomCharLow—SpecifythenumericvalueofthelowestASCIIcharactersupportedfor
inputdataonthetrack.
CustomCharMask—SpecifythemaskvaluethatissubtractedfromtheASCIInumericvalue
togettheencodedvalue.
CustomCharMax—Specifythemaximumnumberofdatacharactersforthetrack.Thevalue
doesnotincludethestartsentinelorendsentinel.
CustomDensity—Specifythenumberofdatabitsperinchofmagneticstripemediaforthe
track,alsocalledbitsperinchorbpi.Allowedvaluesare75bpior210bpi.
CustomEndSentinel—Specifythelastcharacterencoded,whichidentifiestheendof
encodeddataforthetrack.
CustomLrc—Specifyacumulativeparitybitthatisencodedaftertheendsentineltoprovide
simpleerrorchecking.
CustomParity—Specifyacharacter‐levelparitybitencodedaftereachcharactertoprovide
simpleerrorchecking.
CustomSdsNulls—Thenumberofnullsbetweeneachcopyoftheda tarecord.Youshouldnot
changethisvalue.
CustomSdsRecords—Thenumberoftimestoencodethedatarecord.Youshouldnotchange
thisvalue.
CustomSdsSs—Thenumberofstartsentinelsbeforeeachdatarecord.Youshouldnot
changethisvalue.
CustomStartSentinel—Specifythefirstcharacterencoded,whichidentifiesthestartofthe
encodeddataforthetrack.