Datalogic Scanning POWERSCAN 7000 - Manual (Page 55)

Product Reference Guide 4-1
Chapter 4
Data Editing
Prefix/Suffix Overview
When a bar code is scanned, additional information is sent to the host
computer along with the bar code data. This group of bar code data and
additional, user-defined data is called a “message string.” The selections
in this section are used to build the user-defined data into the message
string.
Prefix and Suffix characters are data characters that can be sent before
and after scanned data. You can specify if they should be sent with all
symbologies, or only with specific symbologies. The following illustra-
tion shows the breakdown of a message string:
NOTE
For Universal Keyboard Wedge (UKBW) inter-
faces do not use this section. Refer instead to
the Universal Keyboard Wedge Programming
Guide which is available for download from the
website listed on the back cover of this manual.
Prefix Scanned Data Suffix
1-11
alpha numeric
characters 1-11
alpha numeric
characters variable length