Barcode education

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Frank Rizzo

Hello, this is probably not the right place, but here it goes anyway.
I am new to barcodes and pretty confused about symbologies.
I need to print a barcode with the following sequence out:

ascii 1, ascii 2, followed by a 10 digit number.

And of course, when it read it in with the scanner, my application
should receive this same sequence.

What symbology should I use? Or am I going about it in the wrong way?

Thanks
 
normally you would just set the barcode font and print the 12 digits. You
will need to install a barcode font on your system that is compatible with
your printer.

--- Nick
 
You could use Code 128 to encode ASCII character codes in a bar code
however you will need a bar code scanner that has a RS232 output in
order to get the data back correctly from the scanner. This means that
you will need to either write code that reads data from the serial
port or use a "Software Wedge" product like WinWedge from
www.taltech.com

You will also need to use a good bar code printing tool to produce the
bar codes so that they contain the ASCII codes. You might try a
product called B-Coder Professional located at the same web site
above.
Bar code fonts will almost certainly not be able to encode ASCII
character codes.
 
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