A text string which becomes a bar code after being formatted with a barcode font. A barcode usually adds start/stop characters, as well as checksum characters to the data input. Consequently you can not just format the data with the font to create a valid barcode. In data matrix fontware, it is a synonym for encoder results.

A measure of the size of text characters, sometimes referred to as pitch.

Synonymous to “Check digit”.

Code 39 (also known as USS Code 39, Code 3 of 9) is the first alpha-numeric symbology developed to be used in non-retail environment. It is widely used to code alphanumeric information, such as the model number etc. It is designed to encode 26 upper case letters, 10 digits and 7 special characters.

Acronym for Health Industry Bar Code. A bar code format based on code 3 of 9 adopted by health industry.

An abbreviation commonly applied to the character set contained in ANSI standard X3.17-1981. A stylized font choice used for traditional OCR printing.

An abbreviation commonly applied to the character set contained in ANSI standard X3.17-1975. A stylized font choice used for traditional OCR printing.

Acronym for Printer Control Language, the page description language (PDL) developed by Hewlett Packard and used in many of their laser and ink-jet printers.

POSTNET (Postal Numeric Encoding Technique) encodes a US numeric address code (also called Zip code) which may contain 5, 9 or 11 digits - often called Zip, Zip+4 and Zip+6.

The UPC-A barcode is the most common and well-known symbology in North America. UPC-A encodes 11 digits of numeric data along with a trailing check digit, for a total of 12 digits of barcode data.