MiniMag USB HID 2-track black MSR

The MiniMag reader is connected to the host computer via a USB input port. Since USB devices are designed to be “plug and play,” the computer will search for a Human Interface Device (HID) driver when the MiniMag is fi rst connected. If one cannot be found, the computer will prompt you to make a selection. The Windows CD may be needed to complete the installation. The magnetic stripe data is trasmitted and is available to the host as standard windows API calls through the Microsoft USB HID Driver. Software applications are conveniently developed using this standard Microsoft driver interface. The reader USB operation is full speed and may be too fast for operation with the host. A polling interval value can be changed to slow the data transfer rate. The USB Specifi cation and other information can be downloaded free from the USB organization website (www.usb.org). If the host computer’s application software is expecting the magstripe data in a particular order and format, the reader’s output can be confi gured to output the data stream by re-arranging data blocks, adding terminating characters, and special preamble and/or postamble character strings to the decoded card data.