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DTC550 Direct to Card Printer/Encoder User Guide (Rev. 2.8)
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Resolving the Magnetic Stripe Data being printed on a Card
problem
Step Procedure
1 Confirm that the application is formatting the magnetic string correctly. See
the Sending the Track Information
procedure under Magnetic Encoding
Tab.
2 a. Use WordPad (a Windows 2000/XP word processing program in the
Accessories Program Group). See previous display.
b. Open the program and type: “~1%JULIEANDERSON^1234567890?”
c. Select File > Page Setup and click on the Printer button.
d. Ensure that the DTC550 Series Card Printer is selected and click OK.
e. Change all the margin settings to zero (0) and click OK.
f. Go to File on Menu Bar and select Print. (Note: The Printer should
then feed a card into the Encoder and magnetically encode it.)