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Configuring the MagTek Print Driver
When first installing the MagTek Print Driver, the magnetic encoder functions need to be configured. The magnetic encoder functions may be
accessed from the MagTek Print Driver Properties by right-clicking the name of the device.
Magnetic Encoder dialogue box
The Magnetic Encoding dialogue box is opened by clicking Encoding followed by Magnetic.
Configure stripes allows you to select the desired format for each stripe. See the table in
this Appendix for information regarding ISO 7811 standards.
Coercivity sets the magnetic encoding to high (HiCo) or low (LoCo) coercivity. A magnetic
stripe that is encoded with high coercivity is more resistant to external disturbance than a
magnetic stripe encoded using low coercivity.
Encoding via an application is used to encode magnetic stripe cards from applications
under Windows (such as Word for example). A text field enclosed within “|” and “|”
characters (or some other character which the user can define) will be interpreted as an
encoding command by print driver.
Selecting Maintenance then Dialog with the magnetic encoder, Magnetic encoding allows
one or more magnetic stripes to be directly encoded from this window simply by selecting
them and entering the data to be encoded. Click on the Encode stripe(s) button to run the
encoding cycle.
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