What are Hi-Co. and Low-Co.?
Hi-Co (high coercivity) is a type of magnetic stripe tape made up of magnetic particles that can stand under difficult operating environments the particles will not be easily effected when closing to a magnetic field. When high-co magstripes come into contact with magnetic fields such as a telephone handset , the information on the stripe is not altered, unlike low-co. cards which are subject to erasure. Since the two types of stripes are made up of very different material, it is necessary to use an encoder specifically made for the type of stripe you are encoding. TYSSO encoders offer the capability of encoding both types of stripes within the same encoder.
