Aim Formats - Datalogic Magellan 8300 Product Reference Manual

AIM Formats

Product Reference Guide
AIM specifies a 3-character string that is attached as a prefix to the
label data for transmission. Because AIM specifies one identifier for
UPC-A, UPC-E and EAN-13 labels, UPC-A, UPC-E and EAN-13 will
be received from the handheld and transmitted to the POS by the
scanner as EAN-13. Using this form of identification, the ']' charac-
ter must be the first character in the label received from the hand-
held. Further identification of the label is specified in the section
below. The AIM identifiers on the received label may or may not be
transmitted to the POS and are controlled according to the data for-
matting settings of the scanner.
The following sections describe the prefix strings and identify what
specific label characteristics can be supported.
If a label does not have one of the AIM identifiers specified below
and the first three characters of the label data fit the following qual-
ifications:
• the first character is a ']'
• the second character is a capital letter or a small letter
• the third character is a digit
...then the label is transmitted to the host with the AIM identifier
still appended to the beginning of the label data.
UPC-A
• AIM does not specify UPC-A as a separate symbology using
this transmission format - labels will be transmitted as EAN-
13.
• Example: ']E00060992011187'.
UPC-E
• AIM does not specify UPC-E as a separate symbology using
this transmission format - labels will be transmitted as EAN-
13.
• Example: ']E00000000998875'.
EAN-13
• Check digit must be included in label data and is assumed to
be correct.
• Prefix must be ASCII characters ']E0'- total length including
prefix must be 16.
• Example: ']E01101234567891'.
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