HP Point of Sale (POS) Peripherals Configuration Guide

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9.17 HP ap5000 MSR
Question: What port is the MSR attached to?
Answer: The ap5000 MSR as shipped from the HP factory is shipped on COM4.
Question: When I open Notepad and swipe a card nothing appears in Notepad, why?
Answer: The ap5000 MSR is attached to a serial port; it is not a USB HID keyboard (wedge)
device. In order to have data appear in Notepad one may run a third party utility that takes
data from the serial port and sends via keyboard. For XP / WePOS / POSReady there is
serial key option that can be enabled, for Vista / Win7 a third party utility must be used.
Please check with point of sale application if they support serial MSR which would be
preferred over serial key option or third party application.
Question: My application needs a carriage return after track 2, how can I add carriage return after
track 2?
Answer: One can use the ap5000 MSR configuration to enable a carriage return on track 2. The
ap5000 MSR configuration utility may be obtained from HP.COM or from the HP Point of
Sale Driver and Documentation CD.
9.18 HP ap5000 MSR (JPOS/OPOS)
Question: Why do I not need to configure any setting besides the device name when using OPOS /
JPOS for the MSR like I need to for Windows?
Answer:
▪ For OPOS the drivers understand the settings for the MSR and communicate with it
with the proper protocols.
▪ For JPOS the configuration file that is provided by HP already has proper protocol
setting in the file.