Datacard Group ImageCard SelectTM and UltraGrafix SelectTM Printers - Manual (Page 131)

User’s Guide for ImageCard® Select™ and UltraGrafix® Select™ Printers
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Magnetic stripe encoding
This appendix describes the specifications and characters
you can encode on a magnetic stripe in the Select printer,
including:
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IATA, ABA, and TTS character sets
•
NTT character sets
This appendix also describes basic steps required to set up for magnetic stripe
encoding.
To use custom magnetic stripe formats, such as binary, contact your service
provider for more information. To use custom magnetic stripe formats, such as
IATA on track 1 and a proprietary format on tracks 2 and 3, your application must
use the SmartDriver SDK. You can be download the SDK from the Datacard
website at www.datacard.com.
IATA, ABA, and TTS character sets
The IAT encoding format selection for the Select printer encodes IATA data on track 1,
ABA data on track 2, and TTS data on track 3.
IATA (International Air Transport Association)
The maximum field length for IATA format is 76 characters. IATA allows spaces, upper
case alphabetic characters, numeric characters, and the following special characters:
! # $ % ' ( ) * + , - . / ; : < @ > = ^ ] \ [ " & _
ABA (American Bankers Association)
The maximum field length for ABA format is 37 characters. ABA allows numeric
characters and the following special characters:
: ; < = >
TTS (Thrift Third Standard)
The maximum field length for TTS format is 104 characters. TTS allows numeric
characters and the following special characters:
: ; < = >
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