Equitrac - What card reader can read magnetic stripe cards?
Information:
Customer is using magnetic stripe (track 1, 2 or 3) cards and wishes to use this to authenticate with Equitrac Embedded solutions. The correct card reader to use in this case is the following.
The Nuance USB Card Reader - Magstripe (Orderable part number CRU00M00) is the correct reader to use for Embedded solutions that requires Equitrac readers.
The manufacturing product number (on the bottom of the unit) is Y591-EMAG-202.
By default, it will read track 2 and track 1 with the semi-colon character in between.
The Tool version 1.x can be used to select other configurations, including Track 1 only, Track 2 only and Track 3 only.