Established in 1998, 4 State barcodes are used to allow Australia Post to sort incoming mail via barcode read from letters (those barcodes are totally different from the 4 State barcode used in Singapore). There are three different types of barcodes corresponding respectively to FCC values 11, 59 and 62. BarDIMM only needs the DPID and Customer information, and generates automatically all the other information like the FCC or Reed-Solomon checksum. 

For each type or code, that data must be sent in a specific BarDIMM-specific format:

  • Standard Customer Barcode (37-CUST) with only the Sorting Code (DPID)     
    • <DIPD>
  • Customer Barcode 2 (52-FF-MET), DPIDand 16 bars of customer information     
    • <DIPD>,<CustomerInfo>
    • Customer information can be 8 digits or 5 alphanumeric chars long
  • Customer Barcode 3 (67-FF-MET), DPIDand 31 bars of customer information     
    • <DIPD>,<CustomerInfo>
    • Customer information can be 15 digits or 10 alphanumeric chars long
    • <DPID> is the Sorting Code, and must be 8 digits long
    • <CustomerInfo> is customer information, the p parameter selects the N or the C symbol set (numeric or alphanumeric).

Example: 

<Esc>(s1p24787T12345678,7V  5 <Esc>(s0p12h10v4099T

For the P option for the Australia Post 4state barcode, please read carefully the PCL parameters descriptions in the BarDIMM Language Syntax chapter