MagTek USB (UNIVERSAL SERIAL BUS) KEYBOARD EMULATION - Manual (Page 9)

SECTION 1. FEATURES AND SPECIFICATIONS
The USB (Universal Serial Bus), HID Keyboard Emulation, Full Size Swipe Reader is a compact
magnetic stripe card reader, which conforms to ISO standards. The Reader is compatible with
the PC series of personal computers or any device with a USB interface. A card is read by
sliding it, stripe down and facing the LED side, through the slot either forward or backward.
A LED (Light Emitting Diode) indicator on the Reader panel provides the operator with
continuous status of the Reader operations.
The reader emulates a USB Human Interface Device (HID) United States keyboard. This allows
host applications designed to acquire card data from keyboard input to seamlessly acquire the
card data from the USB swipe reader. Note that since this reader only emulates United States
keyboards, it may not work with systems configured to use keyboards that are not United States
keyboards.
Caution
If another keyboard is connected to the same host as this device and a
key is pressed on the other keyboard while this device is transmitting,
then the data transmitted by this device may get corrupted.
Because of potential "data interleave" issues associated with the USB Keyboard interface,
MagTek recommends that the USB Keyboard Emulation MSR product should only be used by
customers who have previously used MagTek's Keyboard Wedge MSR, or who are interfacing
with an existing PC software application which gathers card data from the keyboard port. If
previous applications were based upon RS-232 serial interface MSR's, or if this is a brand new
development effort, it is strongly recommended that you use the MagTek's "standard version" of
the USB MSR (Non-Keyboard Emulation Version). Please refer to Technical Manual 99875204
for further information regarding the "standard version" USB MSR.
FEATURES
Major features of the Swipe Reader are as follows:
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Powered through the USB – no external power supply required
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Hardware Compatible with PC or any computer or terminal with a USB interface
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Bidirectional card reading
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Reads encoded data that meets ANSI/ISO/CDL/AAMVA standards and others such as ISO
track 1 format on track 2 or 3.
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Reads up to three tracks of card data
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LED for status
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Compatible with USB specification Revision 1.1
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Compatible with HID specification Version 1.1
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