DataCard SD260 - Magnetic Stripe Coercivity

SD Series Installation and Administrator’s Guide 27
EachtimeyoustartorstopusingJapanese‐languagecharacters,itaddsahidden
character.Eachhiddencharacterreducesthenumberofcharactersyoucan
encodebyonecharacter.
Magnetic Stripe Coercivity
Theprintermayrequireadditionalsettingstomatchthecoercivityofthecard.
Whenthesevaluesaresettheyremainthesameforallcardsprocessedusingthe
samedesign.ThedefaultsaresettostandardISOformatandhighcoercivity.
Referto“MagStripeGeneral”onpa ge52forinformationaboutchangingthe
coercivity.
Thetypeofmagneticstripecardsyouusemustmatchthetypeofmodule
installed.Threehigh‐coercivitycardsareincludedwiththesystem.Usethese
cardstomakesurethattheprinterisencodingmagneticstripeinformation
properly.Purchaseadditionalmagneticstripecardstomatchthetypeofmodule
youareusing.