• How Do I Encode A Magnetic Stripe Card?

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Step 1: Preparing for A Magnetic Stripe Card, one set magnetic stripe reader , including system and driver software, one computer with magnetic stripe card reading and writing software installed.
Step 2: You have to need to know what's format do you need.
Step 3: Data encoded, track 1 or track 2, track 3 you  can choose, but track 2 more commonly.

Please note that the magnetic stripe card is divided into three tracks, 1, 2, and 3.
All of them are full tracks.
Some parts only use track 1, 2 or 2, 3 tracks.

Track 2 has low density and high density.

When reading, if you don’t know the number of tracks on the magnetic stripe, you can select all three , and you won’t be able to read the ones that are not.
When writing a track, if the magnetic strip has no such track, it will prompt a selection error.

Magstripe card are widely use in payment , access control system, attendance, events ticketing, hotel key cards, school, membership system and so on.