DataCard Sp35 Installation Manual page 106

Magnetic Stripe settings used by the printer
The following table presents technical details that apply to encoding magnetic stripe data.
Character Differential
Start Sentinel (SS)
(ASCII character)
End Sentinel (ES)
(ASCII character)
Lowest ASCII Character
Highest ASCII Character
Character-level parity
(VRC)
Cumulative parity (LRC)
Density in bits per inch
Data bits per character
Maximum number of
encodable characters (not
including start and end
sentinel or LRC)
Encoding direction
SP Series Style Guide
IATA ABA
32 48
% (37) ; (59)
? (63) ? (63)
space 0 (48)
(32)
_ (95) ? (63)
Odd Odd
Even Even
210 75
6 4
76 37
SS first SS first
TTS NTT Binary
48 0 0
; (59) 127 None
? (63) 127 None
0 (48) (1) 0
? (63) (126) 255
Odd Even None
Even Even None
210 210 210
4 7 8
104 69 33
SS first SS last SS first
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