Code I.d. Selection; Example: Setting The Ean-13 Code I.d - PSC QuickScan QS6500 Reference Manual

EAN-13 — continued

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 trans-
mitted EAN-13 bar code data depending on how this feature is enabled.

Example: Setting the EAN-13 Code I.D.

To configure this feature:
1. Determine which character(s) you would like to use to represent
the EAN-13 symbology. Reference
to find the corresponding hex values for your chosen charac-
Chart
ter(s). In this example we'll set a Code I.D. of "F" to represent
EAN-13. The hex value from the table corresponding to 'F' is 46.
This value will be used in a step to follow.
2. Scan the START bar code
3. Scan the SET EAN-13 CODE I.D. bar code.
4. Turn to
Appendix B, Alpha-Numeric Pad
and '6' (the value determined in an earlier step).
5. Scan the SET bar code to accept the digits scanned.
6. Turn to the
TION: BEFORE BAR CODE DATA label.
Features configured using the
universal and will affect all symbologies.
NOTE
7. Scan the END bar code to exit Programming Mode.
8. The resulting message string for scanned EAN-13 labels would
appear as follows:
Scanned bar code data:
Resulting message string output: F023456788122
Product Reference Guide
chapter and scan the CODE ID POSI-
Data Editing
Appendix A, ASCII Conversion
and scan the bar codes '4'
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Data Editing
023456788122
EAN-13
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