D-3
User’s Guide for the Magna™ Class Printer
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.
IATA
ABA
TTS
NTT
Binary
Character Differential
32
48
48
0
0
Start Sentinel (SS)
(ASCII character)
% (37)
; (59)
; (59)
127
None
End Sentinel (ES)
(ASCII character)
? (63)
? (63)
? (63)
127
None
Lowest ASCII Character
space (32)
0 (48)
0 (48)
(1)
0
Highest ASCII Character
_ (95)
? (63)
? (63)
(126)
255
Character-level parity (VRC)
Odd
Odd
Odd
Even
None
Cumulative parity (LRC)
Even
Even
Even
Even
None
Density in bits per inch
210
75
210
210
210
Data bits per character
6
4
4
7
8
Maximum number of
encodable characters (not
including start and end
sentinel or LRC)
76
37
104
69
33
Encoding direction
SS first
SS first
SS first
ES last
SS first
Start sentinel adjustment
310
320
310
310
310
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