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Designing Labels
Using Toolbars
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Selecting Bar Code Type
Settings for Advanced Bar Codes
GS1-128 Bar Code
This bar code is combined from one or more input values and standard AI’s - Application
Identifiers. Each AI must be followed by the standard values. These values can be fixed or
variable.
When you select the GS1-128 bar code, the Bar code data field in the
Bar code Wizard dialog
box is disabled. To define the contents of the bar code, click the Next button.
From the list of available Application Identifiers select the first identifiers. It will be written in
brackets below the bar code.
When the Application Identifier also includes check digits, you have to define whether it will
be calculated or entered together with data.
Next, define how you will set the values for the selected identifier. You may enter a fixed value
or define a variable value.
Fixed values
When values are fixed, the Wizard dialog box will inform you what to enter.
The defined AI is presented on the list of selected Application Identifiers. Click the
Add button
to add a new AI or the
Delete button to delete an existing one.
Should you need to change the AI and the data, select the AI and click the
Edit button.
You can sort the listing of AI’s by using the
Up and Down buttons.
All the settings can be previewed on the
Preview field.
The separator among Application Identifiers can be defined by entering the required separator
for the left and for the right side of the Application Identifier. The default separator is brackets.
Variable values
GS1-128 bar code supports keyboard variables – the variable data will be entered from the
keyboard.
You can define the Prompt – the message for the operator, who will enter the data.
The data can be numeric only or all characters.
The value can be fixed or incremented/decremented on every label or a certain number of
labels with the desired step.
The variable data will be written in the
Preview field as a series of A characters.
When you are satisfied with the settings, click the
Finish button to put the GS1-128 bar code
on the label.