A magnetic stripe encoding apparatus (24) encodes information onto a magnetic stripe (22) of a card (20). A card carriage (26) moves the card (20) along a card transport path between a top rail (28) and a bottom rail (30). The magnetic stripe (22) passes an encoding write head (36) and a read head (40)...http://www.google.fr/patents/US4937438?utm_source=gb-gplus-shareBrevet US4937438 - Magnetic encoding apparatus and method
