Code 11, also known as USD-8, is a discrete, high-density symbology, which is primarily used in labeling telecommunications equipment. The symbol includes the following elements: Start character; Symbol characters that represent data; Optional checksum digits; Stop character. The first ...
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In recent years, QR codes have become an everyday part of our lives. They are a two-dimensional barcodes that can be easily read by a digital device and that store information as a series of pixels. They have become widely used in trade, logistics, and production. Unlike a simple barcode, a QR c...
Import of StimulSoft reports is now available with the 2022.2.13 release. To use it, go to the “File” menu in the FastReport .NET designer, FastReport CoreWin and FastReport Mono and click on the “Open ...” item. Select the filter "StimulSoft files (*.mrt)" in the window t...
The standardization of payment systems results not only in new standards but also in new documents built on these standards. The reporting system should offer its users a fast and convenient way to create such standard documents. EPC is a European Payments Council standard. It was designed to simpl...
We have added the following barcodes: – GS1 Databar Limited; – GS1 Databar Omnidirectional; – GS1 Databar Stacked; – GS1 Databar Stacked Omnidirectional. GS1 DataBar is a highly versatile product labeling symbol primarily intended for scanning at POS terminals. GS1 Da...
CODE 128 is the barcode developed by Computer Identics Corporation (U.S.A.) in 1981. CODE 128 can represent all 128 ASCII code characters (numbers, upper case/lower case letters, symbols and control codes). Since it can represent all characters (except Japanese kanji, hiragana and katakana) that ...
LOGMARS stands for Logistics Applications of Automated Marking and Reading Symbols. It is a specification used by the U.S. government for the military goods supply. LOGMARS is a standard based on the Code 39 barcode. Code 39 consists of self-checking barcode symbols that usually do not require a ch...
Japanese Post was created for the Japanese postal system for the sake of encoding mail addresses and faster automatic processing. The Japan Post Barcode encodes a 7-digit postal code plus an optional address data of up to 13 alphanumeric characters. The postal code section may have a hyphen char at...
A new ITF-14 barcode has been added in FastReport VCL 2021.2. Let me remind you that ITF-14 (Interleaved Two of Five) is a two-band numeric code, or a high-density code that can encode an even number of digits only. Each such barcode encodes an odd digit with a bar and an even digit with a space ...
ITF-14 (Interleaved Two of Five) is a two-band numeric code, otherwise known as a high-density code, which can only encode numbers in an even number. Each barcode encodes an odd number with a dark line and an even number with a space in between. To encode an odd number of digits, you must suffix ...
A bit of theory about barcodes It is difficult to imagine our life without barcodes, especially now that we meet them at every step. We go to the cinema and our tickets contain this “black and white drawing of bars”, we go to the supermarket and each product has information about it in ...
CODE 39 is the barcode developed by Intermec Corporation in 1975. Up to 43 characters including numbers, letters and some symbols can be included in the barcode: 0123456789 ABCDEFG HIJKLMNOP QRSTUVWXYZ-.$/+%. Since letters can be handled, CODE 39 is indispensable in the industrial fields and used in...
Lately many countries have been digitizing payment processes. In other words, they convert existing payments to digital format. The most common way to automate payments is to use QR codes that are easily read by smartphones. The ability to encode a sufficiently large amount of information, high dama...
Recently many countries digitize payments. In other words, they convert existing payments to digital format. The most common way to automate payments is to use QR codes that are easily read by smartphones. The ability to encode a sufficiently large amount of information, high damage resistance, no n...
It's no longer a novelty to see a pixel QR barcode on the product packaging. Although it is more complicated than a regular bar code with stripes and it is undoubtedly more reliable. The technology of QR codes contains redundancy (duplication of information) and a checksum. Therefore, even with 30 p...
Until now the USA have been used two standards for barcode symbolizm for mail: POSTNET and PLANET. These standards make it possible to encode zip codes and services, mainly to sort and track mail. POSTNET is able to encode a five-digit zip code, a 4-digit plus-code and a 2-digit delivery point cod...
MaxiCode was first patented in 1992 as a code for high-speed conveyor sorting. The original name was the Dense Code, which was later changed to UPS. The last established name was MaxiCode. Maxicode is a two-dimensional barcode symbology used by United Parcel Service on packing lists for internation...
In this article we are going to introduce and explore a new type of barcode in FastReport.Net - Pharmacode. One can guess from the name of the barcode, that it is related to pharmaceutical industry. Pharmacode is a binary code, which was developed by a German company LAETUS GMBH specially for pharma...