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IBE Barcode Studio supports all following barcode formats.

CODE 39 The most widely used alpha-numeric symbology. Code 39 is an alphanumeric Barcode. The symbol can be as long as necessary to store the encoded data. It is designed to encode 26 uppercase letters, 10 digits and 7 special characters. It can be extended to code all 128 ASCII characters by using a two character coding scheme.
Extended CODE 39 The regular Code 39 barcode symbology supports only 43 characters. If you wish to encode other ASCII characters then 'Extended Code 39' must be used. Extended Code 39 obtains the additional characters by combining two regular Code 39 characters, the barcode decoder interprets the character pair as a single ASCII character. The table below lists the pairs required to encode the whole 128 ASCII character set.
Interleaved 2 of 5 Interleaved 2 of 5 is a a numbers-only bar code. The symbol can be as long as necessary to store the encoded data. The code is a high density code that can hold up to 18 digits per inch when printed using a 7.5 mil X dimension. A check digit is optional.
Codabar Codabar (sometimes called Code 2 of 7) is a discrete, width-modulated barcode that provides a character set for encoding numeric data (0-9) plus six special characters ($, -, :, /, ., +). There are four different sets of start/ stop characters (a/t, b/m, c/*, d/e) available for use with this code. This feature allows the start/stop characters to be used as the key to different data bases.
CODE 128 Code 128 is a very high density alphanumeric Barcode. The symbol can be as long as necessary to store the encoded data. It is designed to encode all 128 ASCII characters, and will use the least amount of space for data of 6 characters or more of any 1-D symbology.
EAN-13 Standard EAN (sometimes called EAN-13 or DUN-13) has 10 numeric characters, 2 or 3 "flag" characters which are usually a code for the country of the EAN International organization issuing the number , and a check digit. In all other respects, it is identical to UPC version A. JAN is the same as EAN-13. For compatibility with UPC, flags 00, 01, 03, 04, and 06 through 13 are assigned to the United States.
EAN-8 EAN-8 has a left-hand guard pattern, four odd parity digits, a center guard pattern, four even parity digits, and a right-hand guard pattern. An EAN-8 bar code has two flag digits, five data digits, and one check digit.
UCC/EAN 128 The symbology specified for the representation of Application Identifier data is UCC/EAN-128, a variant of Code 128, exclusively reserved to EAN International and the Uniform Code Council (UCC). It is not intended to be used for data to be scanned at the point of sales in retail outlets. UCC/EAN-128 offers several advantages. It is one of the most complete, alphanumeric, one-dimensional symbologies available today. The use of three different character sets (A, B and C), facilitates the encoding of the full 128 ASCII character set. Code 128 is one of the most compact linear bar code symbologies. Character set C enables numeric data to be represented in a double density mode. In this mode, two digits are represented by only one symbol character saving valuable space. The code is concatenatable. That means that multiple AIs and their fields may be combined into a single bar code. The code is also very reliable. Code 128 symbols use two independent self-checking features which improves printing and scanning reliability.
UPC-A UPC version A is the basic version of UPC and is usually the version seen on grocery store items. The symbology is used to encode the 10 digit Universal Product Code. An eleventh digit indicates the type of product, and a twelfth digit is a modulo check digit. The symbol is divided into two halves, each containing 5 digits. The two six-digit patterns are surrounded by left, center and right guard patterns. The left six digits use odd parity encodation while the right six digits use even parity encodation.. The first digit is the UPC number system digit related to the type of product (0 for groceries, 3 for drugs, etc.). The next 5 digits are the UPC manufacturer's code. The first five digits of the right half are the product code. The final digit is the check digit. Although UPC A is continuous, the left and right halves of the symbol can be independently decoded.
UPC-E UPC version E is the next most common version of UPC. It is a zero suppression version of UPC. It is intended to be used on packaging which would be otherwise too small to use one of the other versions. The code is smaller because it drops out zeros which would otherwise occur in a symbol. For example, the code 59300-00066 would be encoded as 593663. The last digit (3 in the example) indicates the type of compression. Guard bars precede and follow the data (no middle guard bars). The digits are coded following the parity pattern EVEN, EVEN, ODD, ODD, EVEN, ODD. The data is enclosed between two left-hand guard bars and three right-hand guard bars. The six digit number is always preceded by a 0 and followed by the check digit. The way the check digit is computed is by expanding the type E to a type A, then doing the regular check.
UPC 2 UPC 2 should only be used with magazines, newspapers and other such periodicals. The UPC 2 represent the issue number of the magazine. This is useful so that the product code itself (contained in the main barcode) is constant for the magazine such that each issue of the magazine doesn't have to have its own unique barcode. Nevertheless, the UPC 2 can be used to track which issue of the magazine is being sold, perhaps for sales analysis or restocking purposes.
UPC 5 UPC 5 are used on books to indicate a suggested retail price.
Postnet Whether it represents five-, nine-, or eleven-digit ZIP Code information, the POSTNET barcode is always printed in a format that begins and ends with a frame bar (full or tall bar). To ensure POSTNET accuracy during mail processing, a correction character (five bars) must be included immediately before the rightmost frame bar of all POSTNET barcodes. The correction character is always the digit that, when added to the sum of the other digits in the barcode, results in a total that is a multiple of 10.

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