Symbol P470/P370, Product Reference Manual

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P470/370 RF Scanner Product Reference Guide
According to AIM standards, a UPC with supplemental bar code is transmitted in one of the
following formats:
]E0 (UPC chars) (terminator) ]E2 (supplemental) (terminator) or
]E2 (supplemental) (terminator) ]E0 (UPC chars) (terminator)
In the scanner, however, the format is changed to:
]E0 (UPC chars) ]E2 (supplemental)
Therefore, a UPC with two supplemental characters, 01234567890510, is transmitted to
the host as a 21-character string,
]E0 0012345678905 ]E1 10.
Table A-4. Symbol Code Identifier Characters
Code Type Symbol Identifier
UPC-A, UPC-E, EAN-13, EAN-8 A
Code 39 B
Codabar C
Code 128 D
Code 93 E
Interleaved 2 of 5 F
Discrete 2 of 5, D 2 of 5 IATA G
MSI Plessey J
UCC/EAN 128 K
Bookland EAN L
Trioptic Code 39 M