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Magnetic Stripe Preamble

0 to 16 ASCII characters: The magnetic stripe preamble is a string of char-

acters that can be added to the beginning of magnetic stripe data. These can

be special characters for identifying a speciﬁ c reading station, to format a

message header expected by the receiving host, or a function key from the

Function Code Tables in Appendix C.

SELECTION CODE: D2

One Character or Function Key at a time

Magnetic Stripe Postamble

0 to 16 ASCII characters: The magnetic stripe postamble serves the same

purpose as the preamble, except it is added to the end of the read data after

any terminator characters.

SELECTION CODE: D3

One Character or Function Key at a time

EXAMPLE:

To set a four-character magnetic stripe preamble of ABCD, enter:

/E/D/FD<ENTER>D2<ENTER>A<ENTER>B<ENTER>C<ENTER>

D<ENTER>DZ<ENTER>

SELECTION CODE: D2

One Character or Function Key at a time

SELECTION CODE: D3

One Character or Function Key at a time

1 2 ... 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 ... 63 64

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