Industrial 2 of 5

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Industrial 2 of 5 (also known as Standard 2 of 5) is a low-density linear barcode designed to encode numbers of arbitrary length. Only lines of varying thickness are used for encoding, while spaces serve only as separators between them. Due to this, the barcode has a low density and, consequently, a larger size.

Each character is encoded with five lines, two of which have a larger thickness. This feature is what gives the code its name.

Currently, this barcode is considered outdated. It was used in warehouse inventory management, photo labs, and for numbering airline tickets.

Industrial 2 of 5 provides for a check digit modulo 10, but it is not mandatory.

The standard 2 of 5 barcode has the following physical structure:

  • start character;
  • data characters;
  • optional check character;
  • stop character.

To generate an Industrial 2 of 5 barcode in FastReport .NET, select the Barcode object BarcodeIcon at the Components Panel in the Report Designer. In the drop-down list, navigate to the "Others" category, and then choose 2/5 Industrial:

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After selecting the barcode, place it on the Report Page.

Double-click on the added barcode to open the editor. You can also open the barcode editor by clicking the button EditButtonIcon in the context menu of the added object, accessed by right-clicking:

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If you want to hide the text under the barcode, locate the ShowText property in the property inspector of the corresponding barcode and set its value to False:

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