Card reader options, Magnetic stripe reader – Zebra Technologies RW SERIES User Manual

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RW Series User Guide

Card Reader Options

The RW series can be equipped with optional Magnetic

Stripe and Smart Card readers. The magnetic stripe card
reader allows the user to swipe magnetic stripe cards such
as credit cards through a slot in the printer and then read and
process the data contained in the card.

In a similar manner the Smart Card reader can read the in-

formation written in the microchip embedded in Smart Cards,
and process the information in the chip in a variety of ways
depending on the printer’s application.

Magnetic Stripe Reader

The status of the Magnetic Stripe Reader (MSR) is indicated

in three possible ways:

• Reader status is displayed on the Main Menu LCD as

shown in Figure 16.

• The LCD backlight flashes to indicate status (3 flashes =

enabled, 2 flashes = disabled).

• Chimes indicates the reader status (3 chimes = enabled,

2 chimes = disabled).

Zebra RW 420

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Figure 16: Magnetic Stripe Reader Status Indicator

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“Rdr” indicates

MSR is enabled.

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