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Datamax-O'Neil Class Series II Programmer’s Manual User Manual

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Appendix G – Bar Code Details

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Class Series 2 Programmer’s Manual

W1p: Intelligent Mail Barcode

(IMB)

Valid Characters: 0-9

Length: 20, 25, 29 or 31 digits

Valid bar widths: The width and height multiplier values of 00 will produce a valid IMB
symbol.


Usage: The bar code height field is ignored since the symbol height is United States
Postal Service specific. This bar code represents a 20 digit tracking code and a zero,

five, nine, or eleven digit routing code on a letter or package for the USPS.

Example:

The following example prints an IMB bar code:

L
D11
1W1p000000050005001234567094987654321012345678
91
E

Barcode W1p










W1q: CODABLOCK

CODABLOCK is a two-dimensional, multi-row, stacked bar code. CODABLOCK A uses the

Code 39 character set and supports variable ratios. CODABLOCK E and F use the Code
128 character set and support only fixed ratios, while CODABLOCK E also adds FNC1

automatically to the beginning of the data.

Valid Characters: CODABLOCK A: 0-9, A-Z, - . * $ / + % and the space character; and,

CODABLOCK E and F: All ASCII characters.

Variable length

Syntax (spaces added for readability):

a W1q b c ddd eeee ffff g h ii jj k…k

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