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- USB Triple Track POS Magnetic Stripe Card Reader General Features: Black color Triple track reader
- Ultra-compact design USB 1.1 interface USB bus powered High-noise immunity
- High-performance decoding Reads both Lo-Co and Hi-Co cards
- Automatic Gain Control - reads cards from 30% - 200% of ISO 7811 amplitude standard
- Bi-directional card swipe
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Product Description
Easy to use card reading solution! This MSR250HK USB Triple Track POS Magnetic Stripe Card Reader is ideal for retail systems, security systems and other card reader applications. This Point of sale (POS) magnetic card reader can read up to 3 tracks of data and conforms to industry specifications including ANSI/ISO Standards 7810,7811-1/6 and 7813! The MSR250HK USB Triple Track POS Magnetic Stripe Card Reader features USB 1.1 interface for easy installation.
Customer Reviews
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
13 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Amazon Verified Purchase
There's not much to say about a swipe reader. There are two basic types: HID and keyboard emulator. This particular unit is of the latter type. Basically, in swiping a card, it sends characters to the computer just as if you'd typed them on a keyboard. (You can test this by opening up a text editor and then swiping a card)
They work like they're supposed to, there are no drivers to install. The USB cable was plenty long, and the package included some velcro sticky pads for mounting. This unit is mono-directional, mono-sided, meaning the card has to be swiped a certain direction, facing a certain way. No big deal. For a simple, cheap reader, this can't be beat.
They work like they're supposed to, there are no drivers to install. The USB cable was plenty long, and the package included some velcro sticky pads for mounting. This unit is mono-directional, mono-sided, meaning the card has to be swiped a certain direction, facing a certain way. No big deal. For a simple, cheap reader, this can't be beat.
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Three points to note:
1) This card reader is NOT Mac OSX compatible (and we'd even asked to confirm this before purchasing). We're computer savvy here and tried it in Snow Leopard and Leopard on four machines without luck. It is read as a keyboard at first but no machines would recognize input from it (except running it in Windows via Parallels which was a good test doesn't really help for routine use). Despite our searches and the seller trying to suggest a shareware driver, we were unable to find a Mac driver for this item. We wasted a lot of time trying (if you find one, let us know!).
2) Even for Windows, this device requires a driver. The seller does NOT include the driver, a link to the driver, or any instructions at all inside the packaging. You have to e-mail them to bug them and say it doesn't work before they send you a link to a Windows-only driver.
3) This company is shipping from China so read the reviews and return policies carefully beforehand as the shipping time and expectations for returns and exchanges may be more than you bargained for.
1) This card reader is NOT Mac OSX compatible (and we'd even asked to confirm this before purchasing). We're computer savvy here and tried it in Snow Leopard and Leopard on four machines without luck. It is read as a keyboard at first but no machines would recognize input from it (except running it in Windows via Parallels which was a good test doesn't really help for routine use). Despite our searches and the seller trying to suggest a shareware driver, we were unable to find a Mac driver for this item. We wasted a lot of time trying (if you find one, let us know!).
2) Even for Windows, this device requires a driver. The seller does NOT include the driver, a link to the driver, or any instructions at all inside the packaging. You have to e-mail them to bug them and say it doesn't work before they send you a link to a Windows-only driver.
3) This company is shipping from China so read the reviews and return policies carefully beforehand as the shipping time and expectations for returns and exchanges may be more than you bargained for.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Amazon Verified Purchase
I received the item, plugged it in and Windows gave an error bubble that the USB device was malfunctioning. The indicator light just flashed on the device. I inserted the drivers disk to find it had not been burnt. Windows asked if I wanted to add files to the blank disk, I did not. The indicator light just flashed. I returned it the next day.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
So far so good
I've only had a little time to work with this. I used it on my netbook running Fedora Linux along with stripe snoop and it works just fine.
Published 11 days ago by Jayson Post
If you need a card reader this will do
Bought this for use with a hotel check in software. Plugged it in and the software recognized it and I was good to go. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Jack Wang
TRK
This was a perfect replacement for my POS. I recieved it quickly and in perfect condition. I will definitely order another such product when necessary.
Published 1 month ago by 2222
Card Reader
I had purchased the USB Triple Track POS Magnetic Stripe Card REader and the item did not work from the moment that I received it. I found out the cord was loose and came out. Read more
Published 2 months ago by DJ
Yea ok it does read cards
I expected to use this when entering credit card info when making purchases. It does read the CC but it reads too much info and it doesn't fill out the fields properly with just... Read more
Published 2 months ago by B. Bachman
A+ product review
This product came as a plug and play device for use at my business. It worked without any setup. The price was great as well.
Published 3 months ago by Dwayne
Stopped Working without Use
When I received this product, I plugged it into my Fedora system and opened gedit, and when I swiped a card it read it just fine like I had typed on the keyboard. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Bill Adams
Reads only track 1
I purchased this item as it was billed as a triple track reader. It reads only track 1 data, validated this by running "stripesnoop". No Track 2 data on six cards I used.
Published 3 months ago by cardreader
Simple, Functional Card Reader
I ordered a few of these to use with membership cards (HiCo, track 2 encoded) at my company. They worked exactly as they should - functioning just like a keyboard - and were able... Read more
Published 3 months ago by Ry D
Don't waste your money
This reader very rarely works so we have stopped using it. We bought it as our point of sale credit card reader. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Cathy Ibach
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