Rockwell Automation 2755 Cordless Hand-Held Scanner - Manual (Page 100)

Glossary G–3
Publication 2755-6.3
E
EAN
European Article Number. This European/International version of
the UPC provides its own coding format and symbology standards.
Element dimensions are specified metrically. EAN is used primarily
in retail.
H
Host Computer
A computer that serves other terminals in a network, providing such
services as computation, database access, supervisory programs, and
network control.
I
Interleaved Bar Code
A bar code in which characters are paired together, using bars to
represents the first character and the intervening spaces to represent
the second.
Interleaved 2 of 5
A binary bar code symbology representing character pairs in groups
of five bars and five interleaved spaces. Interleaving provides for
greater information density. The location of wide elements
(bar/spaces) within each group determines which characters are
encoded. This continuous code type uses no intercharacter spaces.
Only numeric (0 to 9) and start/stop characters may be encoded.