Setting bar code content – Brady label maker User Manual

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The Bar Code screen has five tabs. When you add a bar code, you’ll use
the Content and Dimension tabs. The remaining tabs -- General, Size
and Location, and Font -- are mainly used to change default settings for
bar codes (see Editing bar codes on page 7-21).

Setting bar code content

Use the Content tab to set these options:

Symbology

Select a symbology code from this list box.
Symbologies are universal bar code formats.
This system supports these symbologies:

Code 128 Auto

Code 39

Interleaved 2-of-5

Data value

Specify a data value for the bar code here.
The symbology codes limit the data to a
specific number of characters:

Symbology
Code 128 Auto
Code 39
Interleaved 2-of-5

Max. # Characters
2-50
2-50
2-50

If you enter an incorrect number of
characters in the Data value field, a
message prompts you for a corrected
value.

If you enter invalid characters in the Data
value
field, you’ll see a message telling
you so.

Human-readable
text

Select the placement of the text that people
can read (as opposed to machine-readable
code). You can choose:

No text

Text above bar code

Text below bar code (the default)

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