11.   Information is loaded, updated and maintained on the card via a magnetic strip or through the kind of laser embossing used to make compact discs.

12.   It also makes the magnetic strip on the back of your credit card.

13.   Instead of relying on technicians, the computer in the lab will automatically make color and lighting corrections by reading a magnetic strip.

14.   It sets a national limit of one gun per month per buyer, and calls for a national identification card with fingerprints, a magnetic strip and a photograph.

15.   Its film contains a magnetic strip for communicating with computers.

16.   Modern electronic tools such as scanners and magnetic strip cards let all major grocery stores and chains, such as Kroger and Meijer, monitor customer purchases.

17.   Neither the battery nor the beeping mechanism affects the magnetic strips on debit and credit cards.

18.   Passengers get a card with a magnetic strip and an identification number from their cell phone service.

19.   Q. What information is on the magnetic strip on the back of credit cards, and what is transmitted back and forth when a card is swiped?

20.   Riders would put the card through the machine too fast, too slowly or with the magnetic strip facing the wrong way.