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Getting started
A higher electrical current is used to encode the high-coercivity cards
than the low-coercivity cards. You cannot use high-coercivity cards
with a card-printing application that uses the low-coercivity format, and
you also cannot use low-coercivity cards with a high-coercivity
application.
Set the magnetic stripe values
1.
Use the information above to determine the coercivity rating for the
magnetic stripe cards you will be using.
2.
Click on the Windows Start button and select Settings.
3.
Select Printers and click on the printer icon. (The icon has the name
chosen during installation.)
4.
Open the magnetic stripe settings:
Windows 95/98 users: Go to the File menu, select Properties, and click
on the Mag Stripe Settings tab in the dialog box (see Figure 2:-11).
Windows NT users: Go to the File menu and select Document Defaults.
Click on the Advanced tab if necessary. Scroll down to the bottom of
the list (see Figure 2:-12). Click on the plus signs (+) for Document
Options and Printer Features to open up the entries beneath these
headings.
5.
Select the encoding format you will use. If the format you want to
use is anything other than IAT or NTT, select Binary.
6.
Select the coercivity needed for the magnetic stripe cards you will be
using.
7.
Raise or lower the number of encoding attempts by clicking on the up
or down arrow at the bottom of the Mag Stripe Settings tab box.
8.
Click OK.
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