Pitney Bowes J693 manual Bar Code Summary Data, Bar Valid Ascii Characters Code Type

Bar Code Summary Data

Bar Code fonts have alpha names (left column in the table below). Uppercase alpha names will print barcodes with human-readable interpretations. Lowercase alpha names will print barcodes only. The table is followed by visual samples.

Bar				Valid ASCII Characters,
Code	Type	Length	Checksum	decimal value
ID				representation
A	Code 3 of 9	Varies	No	32, 36, 37, 42, 43, 45-57,
				65-90
B	UPC-A	11	Yes	48-57 Numeric only.
				Option V used in the 6th &
				7th position
C	UPC-E	6	Yes	48-57 Numeric only
D	Interleaved 2 of 5 (I 2 of 5)	Varies	No	48-57 Numeric only
E	Code 128	Varies	M-103	32-127
F	EAN-13	12	Yes	48-57 Numeric only. Option
				V used in the 7th & 8th
				position
G	EAN-8	7	Yes	48-57 Numeric only
H	HBIC	Varies	M-43	32, 36-39, 42, 43, 45-57, 65-
				90
I	Codabar	Varies	No	36, 43, 45-58, 65-68
J	Interleaved 2 of 5 with a	Varies	M-10	48-57 Numeric only
	modulo 10 checksum
K	Plessey	Up to	M-10	48-57 Numeric only. Option
		14		+ is Last Character for
				Second M-11 Checksum
L	Interleaved 2 of 5 with a	13	M-10	48-57 Numeric only
	modulo 10 checksum &
	shipping bearer bars
M	2 digit UPC addendum	2	Yes	48-57 Numeric only
N	5 digit UPC addendum	5	Yes	48-57 Numeric only
O	Code 93	Varies	No	35-38, 42-58, 65-90, 97-122
p	Postnet	Varies	Yes	48-57 Numeric only
Q	UCC/EAN Code 128	19	Yes	48-57 Numeric only
R	UCC/EAN Code 128	18	Yes	48-57 Numeric only
	K-Mart NON EDI barcode
S	UCC/EAN Code 128	34 +	Yes	48-57 Numeric only
	Random Weight
T	Telepen	Varies	Yes	Alphanumeric
U	UPS MaxiCode	84	Yes	Alphanumeric
v	FIM	1	No	A, B, C, D
z	PDF-417	Varies	Yes	All
W1c	DataMatrix	Varies	Yes	All 8-bit values
W1d	QR Code – Auto format	Varies	Yes	Alphanumeric
W1D	QR Code – Manual format	Varies	Yes	Single byte or Kanji double
				byte

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