BarDIMM Pro & BarDIMM Box – Intelligent Barcode Printing System
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22- Bar Code Formats Characteristics: Usage & format
There are many standard used to encode the information as bars. BarDIMM supports most
of the Barcode standards:
UPC-A
Standard in the USA, for items sold to the public. UPC-A
contains numeric data only and encodes a 12 digits
number. The first one is the number system character, the
next 5 digits are the supplier ID, the next 5 digits are the product number and the last one
the required checksum character. You do not need to specify the checksum digit as
BarDIMM recalculate it.
A digit is described by 2 bars and 2 spaces and its width is calculated as 7 thin bars.
The number character is printed as text on the left side or the bar code and the checksum
on the right side.
The system number can have the following values:
0 or 7: Regular UPC codes
2: Random weight items
3: National Drug Code and National Health Related Items Code
4: For use without code format restriction and with checksum for non-food items
5: For use on coupons
1,6,8,9: Reserved
UPC-E (UPC-E0 and UPC-E1)
Ideal for small packages because of its data compression. It contains the
same information as the UPC-A except that there are minimum 4 zeros,
which are suppressed. It reduces the number of digits from 12 to 6.
BarDIMM accept the Zero Suppressed version of UPC-E in both
versions of data, compressed and uncompressed. If data comes uncompressed, BarDIMM
will perform automatically the compression.
A digit is described by 2 bars and 2 spaces and its width is calculated as 7 thin bars. Note
that caption text below the barcode can be activated to verify checksum calculation.
EAN-8
Used in Europe for items sold to the public. EAN-8 contains numeric
data only and encodes a 8 digits number. The first two are the country code, the next 5
digits are the product number and the last one required checksum character. You do not
need to specify the checksum digit as BarDIMM recalculates it.
