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Magnetic encoder cleaning, Iso standard encoding – Zebra Technologies Zebra P120i User Manual

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P120i Card Printer User Guide

980504-001 Rev. A

Introduction

Magnetic Encoder Cleaning

Use the standard cleaning card process as described in Chapter 4. This cleans the most
important parts of the printer; including the print Head, Transport Roller and Magnetic Stripe
Encoder.

ISO Standard Encoding

980504-AA-01

MAGNETIC

STRIPE

Track #

Field

Separator

Track

Density

Valid

Characters

# of

characters

1

^

210 BPI*

Alphanumeri
c (ASCII
20~95

)

79

2

=

75 BPI*

Numeric

(ASCII
48~62)

40

3

=

210 BPI*

Numeric

(ASCII
48~62)

107

*Bits per inch

Except the “?” character

Including Start, Stop, and LRC characters. Also note that these 3

characters areautomatically managed by the magnetic encoder according
to the ISO Standard Norms.

Note • Refer to the Card Printer Programmer’s Manual for complete programming
information.