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What Is The Magnetic Stripe Cards？
The magnetic stripe card is a liquid magnetic material or a magnetic stripe position information carrier, and the liquid magnetic material is coated on the card.

The first one is a high magnetic (HICO) card, which is encoded with an intensity of 2750Oe or 4000Oe;
The second one is coded with a low magnetic (LOCO) card, that is with an intensity of 300 Oe.

What Information Is stored On A Credit Card Magnetic Stripe?
Magnetic card is a magnetic recording medium card. It is made of high-temperature and resistant plastic or paper-coated plastic, which is moisture-proof, wear-resistant, flexibility, easy to carry, and is more stable and reliable in used.
Usually, one side of the magnetic card is printed with explanatory information, such as the direction of the card; on the other hand, there is a magnetic layer or a magnetic stripe with 2 track and 3 track to record relevant information and data.
There are 3 track on the magnetic stripe. Tracks 1 and 2 are read-only magnetic strips. When in use, the information recorded on the tracks can only be read out and cannot be written or modified.
The magnetic stripe track 3 is a read and write supported, which can be read or written during use.
Track 1 can record numbers (0-9), letters (a-z) and some other symbols (such as brackets, separators, etc.), can be up to 79 numbers or letters.
The characters recorded in tracks 2 and tracks 3 can be numbers (0-9) only. Track 2 can record up to 40 characters, and track 3 can record up to 107 characters.

What's Application Of Magnetic Stripe Cards？
The magnetic stripe cards are widely used in payment, access control system，amusement park，museum，bank cards，supermarket，membership cards， gift cards，hotel key cards etc,.