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F-8
Magellan ® 8500 Scanner
Codabar
• Check character must be included in label data.
• Label length including check character and excluding prefix char-
acter must meet requirements imposed by the main scanner's
fixed or variable label length control for this symbology type.
• Prefix must be an ASCII character '%'.
• Start stop character sets must meet the matching requirement set
forth by the scanner configuration item
Codabar Start Stop Char-
acter Match .
• Start stop character sets must be of the form ABCD/ABCD and
must be included in the label.
• Example: '%s$99.95s' (the lower case ‘s’ at each end of the exam-
ple is a placeholder for the start stop character set).
Code 128
• Prefix must be an ASCII character '#'.
• Label length excluding prefix character must meet requirements
imposed by the main scanner's fixed or variable label length con-
trol for this symbology type.
• Function characters may be transmitted as a hexadecimal value
8x. Where x correlates to function characters 1 thru 4 as follows:
• x80 = function code 1
• x81 = function code 2
• x82 = function code 3
• x83 = function code 4
• For Code 128 programming labels the format is of the general
form '#/82nnnnn/r ' - /82 is hexadecimal 82 and /r is carriage
return.
• Example: '#Code_128.Test'.