Magnetic Stripe Tester MT-3000: Quick, accurate and reliable magnetic stripe testing of HiCo and LoCo encoded and unencoded cards and tickets.
High precision testing of unencoded and encoded HiCo, LoCo and 650 Oersted mag-stripes to ISO, CQM and other standards
Suitable for ISO ID-1 and CR80 magnetic stripe cards and tickets
Automatic analysis on all three tracks-regardless of location – with fast test cycle times
Widely used by magnetic stripe card and ticket issuers and manufacturers internationally
Magnetic Stripe Tester MT-3000(Mag-Tester 3000): Quick, accurate and reliable magnetic stripe testing of HiCo and LoCo encoded and unencoded cards and tickets.
The Mag-Tester 3000 is a powerful magnetic stripe quality control analyser for encoded and unencoded magnetic media - HiCo, LoCo and 650 Oersted. It is used by magnetic stripe card/ticket manufacturers and bureaus for testing, QC, encoding equipment maintenance and development. It provides quick, accurate and reliable testing, and the multi-level user interface makes it the ideal choice for production QC as we l as laboratory analysis.
• High precision testing of unencoded and encoded HiCo, LoCo and 650 Oersted mag-stripes to ISO, CQM and other standards
• Suitable for ISO ID-1 and CR80 magnetic stripe cards and tickets
• Automatic analysis on all three tracks-regardless of location – with fast test cycle times
• Widely used by magnetic stripe card and ticket issuers and manufacturers internationally
• Cards – Lateral stripe, ID-1 and CR80 size, embossed, unembossed
• Tickets – Lateral or central stripes, ID-1 and CR80 size
High (HiCo), Low (LoCo) coercivity unencoded and encoded magnetic stripes related to:
• ISO/IEC 7811-2
• ISO/IEC 7811-6
• ISO/IEC 7811-8 (Option)
• ISO/IEC 10373-2
• JIS X 6302-2
• JIS X 6302-6
• Mastercard CQM
Custom test limits can be set by the user.
Many other standards available as variants.
All the features of the Mag-Tester 3000 are designed to deliver the highest levels of test-result accuracy and convenience to any magnetic stripe card and ticket manufacturing, bureau or QC environment.
• High Precision Motorised Transports
These simulate field conditions by carrying the cards and tickets across the head. This helps to identify mechanical problems affecting the magnetic performance of the card or ticket, for example oversized cards.
• High Resolution Optical Sensor
This unique feature tracks continuously the position and speed of the card or ticket ensuring the accurate measurement of bit spacing, jitter and amplitude throughout the analysis.
• Automatically Positioned Lateral Slide
Using this feature, the complexity of testing multi-track cards or tickets is reduced. From the PC, the heads can be accurately and selectively positioned at non-standard track locations on each transport.
• Separate Uncoated Write and Read Heads
To ensures ISO recommendations are met and results are not affected by stray magnetic flux from single gap write/read heads, separate uncoated write and read heads are used for each transport. Ceramic coated heads are available; these are recognised by ISO for extended life in a QC environment.
• Batch Testing & Data Analysis
Media can be batch tested; batch test data can be exported to external database programmes (MS Access, Excel) for further analysis (Gage R & R, Six Sigma), if required. Data analysis includes statistics, histograms and performance trends right through to the automatic generation of ISO 9000 test results certificates.
• Automatic Zoom to Error Software
Intelligent analysis software zooms to display of faulty media or encoding locations.
• Multi-level User Interface
The Mag-Tester 3000 is designed to be easy to use by both the non-technical operator and at the same time provides detailed technical information for engineering staff. Comprehensive magnetic stripe analysis displays and diagnostic facilities for Encoded cards and Unencoded cards are available, making the Mag-Tester 3000 ideal for both production QC testing and laboratory analysis.
• Convenient USB Interface
A USB connection enables the Mag-Tester 3000 to be installed on any laptop or PC running Windows 7,10 and 11 (32-bit and 64-bit), in the most demanding production environments as well as laboratories and bureaus.
• ISO 7811-2, ISO 7811-6 / ISO 7811-8 Tables 2-7 tests
• Automatically test any or all 3 ISO tracks
• Variable Test Track location
• Character Count, Data, Parity, LRC
• Leading/trailing zeros, start/end sentinel locations
• Signal amplitudes, signal waveform
• Bit density, Bit spacing
• Bit/Bit spacing variation (Jitter)
• Reverse & Repeat read tests (encoded cards)
• Test to Mastercard CQM requirements
• ISO 7811-2, ISO 7811-6 / ISO 7811 Table 1 tests
• Magnetic saturation curve – multiple curves
• Erasure
• Extra pulse
• Resolution
• Demagnetisation (HiCo)
• Waveform (HiCo – forward and reverse)
• Programmable Waveform test method
• Can test to other standards
Barnes is the chosen test tool of Banks & Issuers, Card Manufacturers, Personalisation Bureaus and Test Laboratories worldwide.
• Business Agility
Barnes test tools are easy to use by both technical and non-technical users, and speed up card development and payment scheme certification.
• Cost Elimination
The high business costs and wasted resources of producing and issuing invalid cards are eliminated.
• Risk Reduction
The reputational risk of issuing invalid EMV cards to end customers is reduced.
• Future Proofed
Barnes works in partnership with all major payment schemes. As scheme rules evolve, Barnes rapidly makes updated test script packs available to customers via the Barnes website.
• Service Excellence
Our clients have every confidence that, whatever their test requirement, the Barnes team is always on hand to deliver expert advice and fast support.
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