Specifications

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code where numerical and alphabetic characters coexist and where it is possible to assign

to the numerical part a code as in

SET

and to the alphabetic characters a code as per

SET

. This maximises the compression of the barcode i.e. it becomes shorter. The fol-

lowing table gives the special characters:

Extended ASCII

codes

Function

128 FNC 3

129 FNC 2

130 SHIFT

131 SET C

132 SET B

133 SET A

134 FNC 1

EAN128

This is a variation of CODE128. It follows the same rules as described

above with the difference that it automatically inserts the special character

FNC1,

imme-

diately after the initiator character. This means that the EAN128 is always a little longer

than the equivalent CODE128.