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EAN•UCC RSS family
The RSS (Reduced Space)-symbology is a new code family of linear symbols
for very small components (f.e. health care, electronic and tele communicati-
on components), which need additional data for unique identification. The
RSS family contains following 3 symbologies:
• RSS-14™
• RSS-Limited®
•
RSS-Expanded®
They are devided into mutations.
Features of the
RSS family Features of the RSS family:
• Barcode type
RSS is a consecutive, linear barcode symbology, which can be read in both
directions. A quiet zone is not required.
• Symbol character structure
Different symbol characters (n,k) are used for each mutation of the RSS fa-
mily, Whereas every symbol character consist of n modules within the width
with k bars and gaps. Symbol characters can be border characters, search
patterns or check characters.
•
Data character
The data characters don’t comply with the coded data.To increase the coda-
bility, several thousand possibilities for data coding are available. They’re ba-
sed on mathematical combinations.
•
Concatenation characters
All RSS symbols contain a concatenation character, which is the first data
character coded in a symbol. If the concatenation character is 0, then the
RSS symbol is alone. If the concatenation character is 1, then a 2D compo-
nent is printed above the RSS symbol.
• Encrypted character set
– RSS-14 versions and RSS Limited: digits 0 to 9. Limitation for RSS Limited:
Only 0 or 1 is allowed at the fist position (indicator).
– RSS Expanded: a subset of table 1 international standard ISO\IEC 646
contained characters. Constists of upper and lower case characters, digits
and 20 selected special characters, supplemented with the function
character FNC1.
• Maximum numeric data capacity
– RSS-14 versions and RSS Limited: 14 digit nummeric identification.
– RSS Expanded: 74 nummeric or 41 alphanummeric characters.
• Data compression
Every kind of the RSS family (RSS-14, RSS Limited, RSS Expanded use an
own optimized compression method. RSS Expanded is additionally optimi-
zed for specific data element consequences, which are used very often.