Code I.d. Selection; Example: Setting The Pdf 417 Code I.d - PSC QuickScan QS6500 Reference Manual

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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 trans-
mitted 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
to find the corresponding hex values for your chosen charac-
Chart
ter(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 follow.
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 '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
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 PDF 417 labels would
appear as follows:
Scanned bar code data:
Resulting message string output: P0123456789123
Product Reference Guide
chapter and scan the CODE ID POSI-
Data Editing
Appendix A, ASCII Conversion
and scan the bar codes '5'
chapter are
Data Editing
0123456789123
PDF 417
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