1D Bar Code Formats Characteristics: Usage & format
There are many standard used to encode the information as bars, that’s called 1 dimension (1D) barcodes. BarDIMM supports most of the 1D Barcode standards.
USA standard, for items sold to the public. UPC-A contains numeric data only (i.e. GTIN-12) and encodes a 12-digits number. The first one is the syste...
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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 s...
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Used in Europe for items sold to the public. EAN-8 contains numeric data only (i.e. GTIN 8) and encodes an 8-digit number. The first two are the country c...
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European standard for items sold to the public, EAN-13 contains numeric data only and encodes 13 digits number. The first two are the country code, the ne...
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The real name is “3 of 9 bar code.” It is probably the most commonly used bar code as it encodes not only digits, but also upper-case letters and punctuat...
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Special 39 code used on parcel labels for shipment through postal service in Denmark. Contains ten digits, a special checksum and ends with “ DK. ” BarDIM...
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Based on the standard 3 of 9, it encodes all the ASCII characters by generating two characters for each character in the string to encode. Supports all AS...
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Numeric-only code, it requires an even number of digits in the string to be encoded. It can have from 2 to 30 digits. Also called “25 Interleaved” T...
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Numeric-only codes, it can have from 1 to 30 digits.
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Standard for most barcode labels. Code 128 is a very compact bar code for numeric and alphanumeric strings. It has 3 modes: A, B and C, which encode diffe...
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