Zapper Tornado BT™ Users Manual
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Miscellaneous Options
This final section of the manual contains the setup barcodes for a number of the more
common options, such as setting the beeper and trigger modes, the termination
character, and ISBN (SCIS) mode.
Remember that you shouldn’t need to scan any of these setup barcodes – your Zapper
Tornado BT™ will normally have been supplied already set up correctly for you.
ISBN-10 and ISBN-13
Prior to the start of 2007, everyone knew what to do with ISBN (or SCIS) codes. Now, it
depends on what you’re trying to achieve.
What we used to call just ISBN is now called ISBN-10, and this is the 10 digit code that
is printed at the top of an ISBN barcode. An example is shown on the left below.
The ISBN barcode on the right above is what people are now calling an ISBN-13
barcode. You'll notice that the ISBN-13 code is exactly the same as the number
underneath the barcode. And if you look even more closely, you'll see that the only
difference between the two example barcodes is what's printed at the top.
So, as you can see, ISBN-10 and ISBN-13 are really just different ways of looking at the
same thing.
Every ISBN barcode with a number underneath that starts with "978" has both a 13
digit ISBN-13 code, and a 10 digit ISBN-10 code that is derived from the full 13 digit
barcode number.
The Zapper Tornado BT™, by default, outputs the 13 digit number at the bottom of an
ISBN barcode. If ISBN (or SCIS) mode is turned on using the barcodes on the next page,
the barcode scanner will translate the 13 digit number at the bottom of the barcode
into the 10 digit ISBN-10 code at the top.