Zebra Technologies P420i - Manual (Page 47)

General information
Getting started
Operation
Cleaning
Specifications
Appendix A
Appendix B
Troubleshooting
Printing a card
P420i Plastic Card Printer
Appendix C
B.· MAGNETIC ENCODER CLEANING
There exists two different processes to clean the Magnetic Stripe Encoder.
The first process consists of a standard cleaning of the printer. This cleans the most
important parts of the printer; including the Print head, Transport Roller and
Magnetic Stripe Encoder (refer to chapter 4 "Cleaning" for more instructions).
The second process consists of a cleaning of the Magnetic Encoder using the Menu
Button from the LCD Display.
To access the Magnetic Encoder Cleaning Menu proceed as below:
1. ·Leave power on.
2. ·Remove cards from the Card Feeder
3. ·Insert one Pre-Saturated Cleaning Card
(provided) through slot on the side of the Card
Cartridge.
4. ·Press the Menu button until the LCD screen
shows CLEANING MENU.
5. ·Press the Select button to select.
6. ·Press the Menu button again until the LCD
screen shows CLEAN MAG HEAD.
7. ·Run this operation by pressing the Select button.
ISO STANDARD ENCODING
* Bit per inch
† Except the ‘?’ character
‡ Including Start, Stop and LCR characters. Also note that these 3 characters are
automatically managed by the magnetic encoder according to the ISO Standard
Norms.
NOTE: Refer to the Card Printer Programmer’s Manual for complete programming
information.
Track #
1
2
3
Field Separator
^
=
=
Track density
210 BPI*
75 BPI*
210 BPI*
Valid Characters
Alphanumeric
(ASCII 20~95†)
Numeric
(ASCII 48~62)
Numeric
(ASCII 48~62)
# of characters
79‡
40‡
107‡
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