Magnetic Stripe Encoding; Designing An Id Works Project Or Webid Application To Encode Magnetic Stripes - DataCard SR200 User Manual

Magnetic Stripe Encoding

If your SR200 or SR300 card printer contains an optional magnetic encoder, your card design can
include data to be encoded onto the cards' magnetic stripes.
When designing cards with a Datacard ID software application, use the Datacard SR‐CR retransfer
magnetic stripe plug‐in to communicate magnetic stripe data to the printer, as described in the
sections below.
Designing an ID Works Project or WebID Application to
Encode Magnetic Stripes
1.
On your ID Works Production Form or WebID page, insert a field for each magnetic stripe
track you want to encode.
To combine information from two or more fields on a track, create a composite field. For
step‐by‐step instructions refer to the ID Works Designer online help topic "Add a composite
field to a Production Form" or "Data View Page Composite Field Definition" in the WebID
Configurator Utility Guide.
For WebID applications, the magnetic stripe track fields must be named as follows:
<Magnetic Stripe Card Field Name> : Track n
For example, if you accept the default magnetic stripe field name (Mag Stripe Field 1),
the composite field for track 1 on the WebID page must be named Mag Stripe Field 1 :
Track 1. Note that there is a space on each side of the colon (:).
2.
In your card design, insert a magnetic stripe field. Refer to the ID Works Designer online help
topic "Add a magnetic stripe field to a card" for step‐by‐step instructions.
3.
Double‐click on the magnetic stripe field. The Edit Field Properties [Magnetic Stripe] dialog
box displays.
This Datacard plug‐in was installed
and assigned to your card printer—
automatically when the printer was
installed, or manually using the
"Assigning Printer Plug‐ins"
procedure in this guide.
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