The Eltron Company PRIVILEGE P600 - Manual (Page 113)

Pouch: The unlaminated outer layer of an ID Badge, usually polyester, be-
tween which the paper core is placed for lamination.
Proximity: Proximity cards incorporate embedded or laminated RF (radio
frequency) circuits (in microchip form) which utilize electrically tuned circuits
that will resonate when activated by a transmitter sweeping through the RF
range. A receiver picks up a resonating frequency and activates the code deci-
phering system. Unlike other access cards the proximity card can be worn or
carried and detected at various ranges dependent upon the system’s design
capabilities.
PVC: Polyvinyl chloride, the basic material of the common plastic credit card.
Slot Reader: Swipe reader.
Smart: A card containing an onboard computer chip and a power supply,
normally a lithium battery capable of storing up to six pages of text. This is the
only card in the industry at this time that has an “active” technology.
Substrate: The material on which the magnetic stripe is deposited.
Swipe Reader: A manually operated reader with a long narrow channel
(slot) through which the magnetic stripe edge of the card is pushed.
T&A: Time & Attendance systems or applications.
Track: A strip of specified width and location running the length of the mag-
netic stripe on which data is encoded; Track 1, 2 and 3 are specific track loca-
tions defined by ANSI/ISO standards.
Watermark Magnetic: A card containing small oxide particles physically
oriented into zones of varying widths. The particles are set while the iron oxide
slurry is still fluid. The binary structure spacing of this computer-generated pat-
tern is then oven-cured to create an unalterable 10 or 12-digit code number
while leaving another layer of the magnetic stripe available for encoding soft
conventional data.
Wiegand: A Wiegand card utilizes embedded magnetically unstable ferro-
magnetic wires formed in a permanently tensioned helical twist. The Wiegand
card reader uses a magnetic coil that picks up the flux reversal characteristics of
the wires and converts them to binary pulses.
YMCKrO Ribbons: Printer ribbons with color panels that also include pan-
els for resin black and a protective clear overlay varnish.
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