FARGO electronic DTC500 User Manual
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DTC500 Series Card Printer/Encoders User Guide (Rev. 5.0)
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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 in Section 3, page 196.
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 is 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 Print. (Note: The Printer should then
feed a card into the Encoder and magnetically encode it.)