Magnetic Card Reader (MSR) installation guide - ProfitAge
Please note that Magnetic Card Reader is sometimes referenced as Magnetic Stripe Reader (MSR)
The ProfitAge system supports two methods for connecting Magnetic Stripe Reader
(MSR), the selection between the two methods is made according to the MSR device you
have:
OPOS Standard
– Industry wide standard for Retail hardware connectivity. MSR
device which supports OPOS can be used only by OPOS compliant applications
(Profit age is fully OPOS compliant and so can use OPOS devices)
PS2 interface (Keyboard wedge)
– The MSR device emulates standard keyboard
key presses, The MSR device can be configured to add pre-defined keys before
and after the scanned magnetic card data
– This will allow the application to
identify the data as coming from the MSR and not from the keyboard.
For instruction on programming you device to transmit prefix and suffix please refer
to your hardware user guide.
In order to use PS2 interface MSR device with ProfitAge, a prefix and suffix must be
defined in the device.
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Recommended MSR programming:
Connecting a PS2 MSR device
1.
Turn of the computer
2.
Unplug the keyboard cable (PS2) and connect one of the MSR device cables
instead (only one of the two MSR cables will fit the PC socket)
If the Keyboard is currently connected to a barcode scanner, connect the MSR
device to the PC socket and than connect the un-plugged scanner cable to the
free cable of the MSR device.
3.
Connect the keyboard to the free cable of the MSR device (or the barcode
scanner is used)
Connecting PS2 MSR
4.
Turn on the computer and verify the keyboard is working by pressing the Num-
Lock key and confirming a led turning on and/off.
If exists
