DataCard select series, User Manual

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User’s Guide for Select™ Platinum Series™ Printers
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:
: ; < = >