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ID TECH EzWriter
Magstripe Card Read Commands
*Length does not include protocol overhead characters, if any.
Magstripe
®
Card Read Command Description
Table 3 – Magstripe
®
Card Read Command Summary
ASCII
HEX
Name
Use
Length
*
P
50
Arm to Read
Clear buffers, wait for card read
1
p
70
Arm to Read with speed
prompts
Same as P but send “(“ at start of
Magstripe data and “)” at end. (Test Tool)
1
Q
51
Transmit ISO standard
data, Track 1
Process and send track 1 data after card
read using ISO track 1 decoding
1
R
52
Transmit ISO standard
data, Track 2
Process and send track 2 data after card
read using ISO track 2 decoding
1
S
53
Transmit ISO standard
data, Track 3
Process and send track 3 data after card
read using ISO track 3 decoding
1
q
71
Transmit ISO standard
data, Track 1
Process and send track 1 data after card
read using selected ISO track decoding
2
r
72
Transmit ISO standard
data, Track 2
Process and send track 2 data after card
read using selected ISO track decoding
2
s
73
Transmit ISO standard
data, Track 3
Process and send track 3 data after card
read using selected ISO track decoding
2
I
49
Transmit “Error Data”
Sends data after a data error is returned
1
U
55
Transmit custom data,
forward - Track 1
Sends data with/without nulls parsed using
specified bits per custom character
2,3
V
56
Transmit custom data,
forward - Track 2
Sends data with/without nulls parsed using
specified bits per custom character
2,3
W
57
Transmit custom data,
forward - Track 3
Sends data with/without nulls parsed using
specified bits per custom character
2,3
X
58
Transmit Passbook
Data.
Not Support
Process and send passbook data using
0CH or 0FH as the allowed End Sentinel
1
x
78
Transmit Passbook Data
Not Support.
Process and send passbook data using
the specified End Sentinel
2
?
3F
Write Verify
Perform a Read-After-Write check on data
in the read buffers
1
