DataCard SD460 - Card Design Tasks

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Changesettingsasneeded,andthenclickSetCurrenttoapply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—Specif y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—Specifythenumberofnullsbetweeneachcopyofthedata
record.Youshouldnotchangethisvalue.
• CustomSdsRecords—Specifythenumberoftimestoencodethedatarecord.
Youshouldnotchangethisvalue.
• CustomSdsSs—Specify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.