Product specifications

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Code I.D. Selection
The Code I.D. for this symbology consists of one or two user-selectable ASCII
characters. It can be appended previous to or following the transmitted PDF
417 bar code data depending on how this feature is enabled.
Example: Setting the PDF 417 Code I.D.
To configure this feature:
1. Determine which character(s) you would like to use to represent the PDF
417 symbology. Reference
Appendix A, ASCII Conversion Chart to find the
corresponding hex values for your chosen character(s). In this example
we’ll set a Code I.D. of “P” to represent PDF 417. The value from the
table corresponding to ‘’P’ is 50. This value will be used in a step to fol-
low.
2. Scan the START bar code
3. Scan the SET Code PDF 417 I.D. bar code.
4. Turn to
Appendix B, Alpha-Numeric Pad and scan the bar codes ‘5’ and ‘0’
(the value determined in an earlier step to represent ‘P’).
5. Scan the SET bar code to accept the digits scanned.
6. Turn to the
Data Editing chapter and scan the CODE ID POSITION:
BEFORE BAR CODE DATA label.
7. Scan the END bar code to exit Programming Mode.
8. The resulting message string for scanned PDF 417 labels would appear as
follows:
Scanned bar code data: 0123456789123
Resulting message string output: P0123456789123
NOTE
Features configured using the
Data Editing chapter are
universal and will affect all symbologies.