Code 3 Of 9 Character Set With Binary Equivalent - Pitney Bowes FastPac DI900 Manuallines

Barcode
3 of 9
Symbology
✍
TIP: The DI900/
DI950 software for
Barcode 3 of 9 does
not support the "ex-
tended" ASCII char-
acters, that is, those
characters above
the "%" represent-
ing numbers 43 and
higher.
✍
*The DI900/DI950
software for Barcode
3 of 9 uses the 6th
bit to accommodate
these additional ASCII
characters, as you
can see by their ASCII
binary digits shown
(100000, 100001,
100010, etc.)
SV61314 Rev. A

Code 3 of 9 Character Set with Binary Equivalent

Code 39 or Code 3 of 9 is so called as its made up of 9 elements (5 black
bars with 4 spaces) these elements can be a wide element or a narrow ele-
ment but there is only ever 3 wide elements in any code.
The characters that can be represented within this code set are shown below:
Number ASCII
Binary
0 00000
1 00001
2 00010
3 00011
4 00100
5 00101
6 00110
7 00111
8 01000
9 01001
10 01010
11 01011
12 01100
13 01101
14 01110
15 01111
16 10000
17 10001
18 10010
19 10011
20 10100
21 10101
ASCII Number
Character
0 22
1 23
2 24
3 25
4 26
5 27
6 28
7 29
8 30
9 31
A 32*
B 33*
C 34*
D 35*
E 36*
F 37*
G 38*
H 39*
I 40*
J 41*
K 42*
L
Barcode Theory • 3
ASCII ASCII
Binary Character
00110 M
00111 N
11000 O
11001 P
11010 Q
11011 R
11100 S
11101 T
11110 U
11111 V
100000 W
100001 X
100010 Y
100011 Z
100100 -
100101 .
100110 Space
100111 $
101000 /
101001 +
101010 %
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