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SD Series Installation and Administrator’s Guide 53

Changesettingsasneeded,andthenclickSetCurrenttoapplychanges.

• Attempts—Specifythenumberofattempts(automaticretries)theprinter

makestoencodethemagneticstripedata.Thisvaluealsoisusedforthe

numberoftimestoattempttoreadmagneticstripedata.

Ifyousetthisnumbertoalowervalue,itincreases thethroughputofthe

printerbutcandecreasethereliabilityofmagneticstripeencoding.

Ifyousetthenumbertoahighervalue,itdecreasesthethroughputofthe

printerbutcanincreasethereliabilityofmagneticstripeencoding.

Avalueof1meansnoretryattempts.

• Coercivity—Selectthecoercivitysettingthatmatchesthecardsyouareusing.

Coercivitymeasurestheresistanceofmagneticmaterialtotheremovalof

encodeddata.Highcoercivity(HICO)requiresmoreelectricalforcetoencode

dataandthedataismoreresistanttomagneticinterference.Thechoicesare

HICO,LOCO,NTT1,NTT2,NTT3.

• DataFormat(1,2,3)—Specifythenamesoftheda taformatsusedfortracks

1,2,and3.

Forsingle‐trackmagneticstripeencoding,setDataFormat1toJISand

DataFormat2andDataFormat3toNONE.

Touseacustomdataformat,definetheformatsfortracks1,2,and/or3using

theMagStripeCustomTrack(1,2,3)settingsandthensetthecorresponding

DataFormatsettingstoCUSTOM.

• NoDataDisableTrack—Disablethemagneticstripewriteheadforatrackifthe

trackcontainsnodata.Whenthisisdisabled,anytrackthatwasnotgiven

dataiserased.

• ReadT r ack(1,2,3)—Allowmagneticstripereadactionstoreadfromtracks1,

2,and3.

• SSA(1,2,3)—Setthestartsentineladjustmentfortracks1,2,and3.(SSA3

alsosetsthestartsentinelforasingletrack.)Thestartsentinelisencodedon

themagneticstripeimmediatelybeforethefirstdatacharacterandindicates

thebeginningofdata.Enteravaluefrom-4to4.

• StripeEncoderMultiplier—Thisvalueisinformationonlyandcannotbe

changed.ItisdeterminedwhenanSSAte stisrun.

• WriteTrack(1,2,3)—Allowmagneticstripewriteactionstowritetotracks1,

2,and3.

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