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 can be both printed and encoded in a printer/encoder equipped with a magnetic head.
* Size: Credit card size, CR80
* Thickness: 0.3mm, 0.5mm, 0.76mm
* Options: Low coercivity - LoCo: 300oe; High coercivity - HiCo: 2750oe, 4000oe
* Magnetic stripe width options: Narrow band, wide band.
* Craft: White card, silkscreen printing, offset printing, embossing, encoding, metallic gold/silver
* Application: Hotel, access control, gift card, membership card etc