Installation Guide

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SP Series Style Guide
• Magnetic stripe data will be converted to uppercase (capital) letters if necessary.
• If you include not-allowed characters within the magnetic stripe data, the printer will beep and a message will
be displayed on the PC.
• The driver does not check the data you send. (The printer checks the data.) This is the same behavior as
magnetic stripe fonts.
On Windows 98, 98 SE, and Me, data formatted with escape codes cannot be located in rotated fields.
a) Only the default start sentinel, a semicolon (;), is permitted.
For information about the characters allowed for each track format, see the following section. For more information
about requirements for using escapes, see the documentation for the original printer.
IATA, ABA, and TTS character sets
The IAT encoding format selection for the SP35 printer encodes IATA data on track 1, ABA data on track 2, and
TTS data on track 3. This meets the requirements of the ISO standard.
IATA (International Air Transport Association)
The maximum field length for IATA format is 76 characters. IATA allows spaces, upper case alphabetic characters,
numeric characters, and the following special characters:
! # $ % ' ( ) * + , - . / ; : < @ > = ^ ] \ [ " & _
ABA (American Bankers Association)
The maximum field length for ABA format is 37 characters. ABA allows numeric characters and the following
special characters:
: ; < = >
Printer
Manufacturer
Encoding
Format
Syntax Example
Eltron IAT (ISO) ~<track#><data> ~1ENCODING WITH ESCAPES
~21234567890
~31234567890
Atlantek IAT (ISO) ~<track#>=<data> ~1=ENCODING WITH ESCAPES
~2=1234567890
~3=1234567890
Fargo IAT (ISO) ~<track#>(Start Sentinel><Data>
<End Sentinel>
~1%ENCODING WITH ESCAPES?
~2;1234567890?
~3;1234567890?
Datacard HiFX IAT (ISO) ~<track#>(Start Sentinel><Data>
<End Sentinel>
~1%ENCODING WITH ESCAPES?
~2;1234567890?
a
~3;1234567890?
a
Victor Data
Systems
IAT (ISO) ~<track#>(Start Sentinel><Data>
<End Sentinel>
~1%ENCODING WITH ESCAPES?
~2;1234567890?
a
~3;1234567890?
a