Appendix B: Supported Bar Codes - Lexmark 6500e Technical Reference Manual

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Supported bar codes
The following table lists all bar codes supported by the PCL 5 or PS bar codes, Forms and Bar Code Card, Document Producer Forms Card, and
Optra Forms.
Bar code name
One-dimensional bar code symbologies
Codabar Y
Codabar + mod16 Y
check digit
3
Codablock F Y
1 PDF417 and MaxiCode can be printed using Optra Forms only when the bar code option is also installed in the printer, and when the accompanying bar code
dictionaries have been installed in Optra Forms.
2 All one-dimensional bar code symbologies supported by the Bar Code Card version 2.4 or later can be printed with Optra Forms when the bar code option is
installed in the printer, and the accompanying bar code dictionaries is installed in Optra Forms.
3 These bar codes are not available in PCL 5 or PostScript.
Y Y Y Y
Y Y Y Y
Y Y Y Y
Sample image
2
Y
2
Y
Supported bar codes
108
Comments
Codabar (also called USD-4, NW-7, Monarch, or
Code 2 of 7) is a variable-length symbology that
allows encoding of the following 20 characters:
0123456789-$:/.+ABCD.
Codabar code can vary in length from 1 to 40
characters.
Codablock was developed as a stacked version of
the standard bar codes Code 39 and Code 128.
Row indicators show the orientation of the reading,
and two check characters guarantee the accuracy
of the data encoded. There are three varieties of
this code.
Codablock F can contain 2 to 44 rows, with 4 to 62
characters per row (maximum 2,725 characters).