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2 lines of 36 (size II) & 3 lines of 30 (size I) characters
Stock control number and document number of ATB 2‟s
IATA 2
of 5 barcode of TAT‟s
Data Standards
Conforming to ICAO Document 9303
IATA Recommended Practice 1720a
Data Output
Standard ASCII
Media thickness
1.25mm
Swipe Velocity
10 - 40 cm/sec
Response time
0.9
– 1.4 seconds
Read direction
Right to left
Construction
Integrated into keyboard housing
MTBF
100,000 operating hours
Read head life
500,000 passes
Diagnostics
Internal self test upon power up
Red and Green LED for data read and audible
sounder.
The OCR reader outputs data read from a machine readable document in ASCII. If a letter is not
readable it will substitute this character with an *. If the OCR reader is unable to decode a
document it will output a single line of 30 * characters.
2.5 Bi-colour LED
The Bi-colour LED is used to provide status indication to the user.
Red
When the keyboard is powered through its keyboard connection the indicator will show Red if the
RS232 control lines CTS and DSR are not detected at an Active (High) level. In this mode no data
can be transmitted from an MSR, OCR or Bar Code input. The keyboard operates normally.
Single Green Flash
A single green flash of approximately one second is given when valid MSR, OCR or Bar Code data
is transmitted.
Single Red Flash
A single red flash of approximately one second is given when invalid MSR or OCR data is detected
and no data transmitted.