MSR112 Programmer’s Manual UDN PM019 Rev. A
Section 1 -- General Description 2002/5/23
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Section 1 General Description
This section presents general information about the basic characters of the MSR112 Series.
Features
The MSR112 provides the following features:
1 Light weight: 208g
2 Low noise
3 Compact size: 100L*34W*28H (mm)
4 Low power consumption
5 Single, dual, or triple track versions allow for reading all types of magnetic cards, including credit cards
and drivers licenses.
6 No extra power supply is needed.
Application
This Magnetic Stripe Reader is design to read high or low coercive magnetic cards. It can decode/verify up to 3
tracks of data simultaneously. This product communicates with a host computer or other terminal using a standard
RS-232 interface. Because of the transmitting protocol of MSR112 is more precise, it is suitable for using in
financial industry.
Function
Self Test
Whenever the reader experiences a reset cycle, a self-test is performed. The reader will respond a string that
includes the firmware version number (8-digit) and track configuration accordingly if the entire test is successful.
Otherwise, no response will be generated.
Reading
The reader can read magnetic data form any available track encoded per ISO 7810, 7811. Besides, the data can be
read in customized format that explain below.
Reading Customized Data
The host can read data from the reader as customized format by sending 2-bytes command. For details and
examples of commands and responses, refer to Section 4. Prior to transmitting customized data to the host, the
data is not verified and it is not formatted into ASCII characters either.
Configuration Mode
There are two configuration modes provided as “self-arm” and “host-polled” modes.
