The Bar Code Book: Reading, Printing, and Specification of Bar Code SymbolsThe Bar Code Book, 2nd edition, includes recent advances in bar code technology. Topics include detailed specification on commonly used codes, bar code standards, reading & printing bar codes, data communications, system design & much more. Excellent reference for MIS/EDP personnel, VARs, systems integrators, engineers, or anyone with hands-on responsibility for bar coding. |
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allowable alphanumeric ASCII ASCII characters bar code reader bar code symbol bar code symbologies bar height bar or space bars and spaces character set character width characters encoded check character check digit Code 16K Code 39 Code 49 symbol Code 93 communications Concatenation data characters density depth of field diameter dimension edge roughness edge-to-similar-edge element widths example handheld host computer identified illustrates input device intercharacter gap Interleaved Intermec keyboard label label printers laser laser diodes mode modems modules moving beam scanners nanometers narrow elements nominal numeric digits on-line operator optical parity partial scan pattern percent photodiode portable terminal Postnet print quality printhead printing techniques printing tolerance quiet zone Rationalized Codabar read rate reading equipment shown in Figure signal space width specific spot standard start/stop substitution error rate substrate Symbol Encoding symbology T-distance Table thermal printers tion transmitted typical wavelength wide bar