User's Manual

Smart Card Options

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Contact Smart Cards

Contact Smart Cards have a pad of contacts on the surface of the card that connect to the

circuitry embedded into the card. The printer responds to commands that position the card at

the contact location, where the printer connects to the contacts on the Smart Card. Data to be

encoded onto the Smart Card, and data read from the Smart Card, can interface via a connector

on the printer’s rear panel (“Contact Station”), or encoding/decoding can be performed by

logic on the printer’s Main

PCBA (“Contact Encoder”). All other printer operations remain the

same as the standard models.

Media Loading Orientation for Contact Smart Cards

Orient the cards with the gold-plated Smart Card contacts at the top surface of the card and

facing to the left.

Contact Station Smart Card Interface

When a command to the printer interface sends a card to the Smart Card Contact Station, the

printer connects the Smart Card Contact Station to the female DB-9 connector on the rear of

the printer.

An attached external Smart Card Programmer can be used to program Smart Card chips. The

following table shows the Smart Card Contact Points.

Pin Smart Card Contact Points DB-9 Smart Card Contact Points

1 C1 (VCC) 6 C6 (Vpp)

2 C2 (Reset) 7 C7 (I/O)

3 C3 (Clock) 8 C8 (RFU)

4C4 (RFU)

(GND when chip

is at station)

5 C5 (GND)

DB-9 Connector location for

Smart Card Contact Station