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Magnetic Intensity Adjustment (magnetic encoding installed)
The Persona C25 Card Printer has magnetic encoding installed as a factory option. When
originally ordering a Persona C25 Card Printer from the factory, be sure to specify the Printer
with or without a magnetic encoder. (Note: If the Printer was manufactured without the
encoding module hardware installed, the magnetic head cannot be added later.)
• The intensity of the magnetic encoding head can be automatically set to either high or
low coercivity from the Printers software driver.
• As a factory installed option, the magnetic encoder is set to an ISO standard of 2750
Oersteds for high-coercivity and 300 Oersteds for low-coercivity. (Note: This Oersted
setting is acceptable for the vast majority of card readers used on the market.)
• For older established systems, the coercivity level may need to be increased for reliable
readability.
Typically on these systems, the Oersted level needs to be raised to 4000 for the high-
coercivity readers. See figure below.
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