Datacard Group RL90 User Manual

Inline Encoding

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RP90 Plus E and RL90 User Guide

When the Magnetic Encode setting on the Printing Preferences Encode tab is checked, the 
magnetic stripe encoder can be enabled. The encoding data is sent to the card printer 
through the printer driver using the prefix characters described in this section. This function 
is called “inline encoding”.
If the first three characters in a line are prefix characters (Tilde, “?” and numeral), the text 
that follow is recognized as encoding data. Encoding data is not printed on a card.

Data must be formatted with the same, continuous font.

Only characters specified in the table on 

characters will result in an error.

The maximum number of characters does not include the three prefix characters, or 
the start and end sentinels. The Datacard ID Software Printer Plug-in used with the 
mag stripe plug-in adds the start and end sentinels. 

Make sure that the ID software or PC application does not process the encoding 
data as graphics.

Magnetic stripe data must be on the first page of the card data.

~?0

JIS type 2

7 unit (bit) code

69

~?1

ISO track 1 (International Air Transport 
Association — IATA) 

6 unit (bit) code

76

~?2

ISO track 2 (American Bankers Association — 
ABA) 

4 unit (bit) code

37

~?3

ISO track 3 (Thrift Third Standard — TTS) 

4 unit (bit) code

104