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DTC500 Series Card Printer/Encoders Troubleshooting Guide (Rev. 3.0)
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Resolving the Magnetic Stripe Data being printed on a Card
problem
Step Procedure
1
Confirm that the application is formatting the magnetic string correctly. See the
Sending the Track Information procedure on page 151.
2
Use
WordPad
(a Windows 95/ 98/ ME/ NT/ 2000/XP word processing program
in the Accessories Program Group). See previous page for display.
a. Open the program and type: “~1%JULIEANDERSON^1234567890?”
b. Select
File > Page Setup
and click on the
Printer
button.
c. Ensure that the DTC500 Series Card Printer/Encodersis selected and click
OK.
d. Change all the margin settings to
zero (0)
and click
OK.
e. Go to
File
on Menu Bar and select
. (
Note:
The Printer should then
feed a card into the Encoder and magnetically encode it.)