Magnetic Stripe Cards

Magnetic stripes are commonly found on credit cards, bank debit cards, prepaid telephone and vending cards, mass transit cards, drivers' licenses, employee ID badges, membership cards, school lunch programs and library cards, gift certificates, loyalty cards and access control cards. This well-established technology is used in industries with low- to medium-data storage needs.

Magnetic stripe cards are simply PVC cards with either black or brown stripes on them made up of magnetic particles of resin. Brown stripes are generally low-coercivity (LoCo), while black stripes are high-coercivity cards (HiCo).

Coercivity is the ability of the magnetic stripe to resist demagnetization. The higher the coercivity, the harder it is to encode (and erase) information from the stripe.

Magnetic stripe cards can be both printed and encoded in a printer/encoder equipped with a magnetic head.

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