Magnetic Stripe Settings Used By The Magna Class Printer - DataCard ImageCard User Manual

Each time you start using Japanese-language characters, or stop
using them, the driver adds a hidden character. Each hidden
character reduces, by one, the number of characters you can encode.
Magnetic Stripe settings used by the
Magna Class 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
Start sentinel adjustment
User's Guide for the Magna™ Class Printer
IATA ABA
32 48
% (37) ; (59)
? (63) ? (63)
space (32) 0 (48)
_ (95) ? (63)
Odd Odd
Even Even
210 75
6 4
76 37
SS first SS first
310 320
TTS NTT
48 0
; (59) 127
? (63) 127
0 (48) (1)
? (63) (126)
Odd Even
Even Even
210 210
4 7
104 69
SS first ES last
310 310
D-3
Binary
0
None
None
0
255
None
None
210
8
33
SS first
310