ImageCard/UltraGrafix (Express and Select Classes) User’s Guide
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Printing magnetic stripe test cards
If your printer is equipped with the magnetic stripe option, you can create a
magnetic stripe test card to verify that the magnetic stripe option is working
correctly.
Print a magnetic stripe test card
The printer must be connected to a PC to create this type of test card.
Be sure to use only magnetic stripe cards to create this type of test
card.
1.
Insert a blank magnetic stripe card into the printer's exception slot,
with the magnetic stripe facing down and to the right.
2.
Open the printer's status monitor by double-clicking on the status
monitor icon in the lower-right corner of the screen.
3.
Click on the status monitor's Mag stripe card button. See Figure 2:-20.
The printer encodes data on the card's magnetic stripe. At the same
time, it also prints this data on the face of the card.
4.
When the printer ejects the completed test card, you can use a
magnetic stripe card reader to read the magnetic stripe data recorded.
If the data read by the reader is the same as what is printed on the
face of the test card, the printer's magnetic stripe option is working
correctly.
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