Handheld Data Format Requirements General
Product Reference Guide 501
EAN13 labels, UPCA, UPCE and EAN13 will be received from the handheld and
transmitted by the scanner as EAN13. The ‘]’ character must be the first charac
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ter received in the label transmission from the handheld.
The following sections describe the prefix strings and identify what specific
label characteristics can be supported.
UPC-A
• AIM does not specify UPCA as a separate symbology using this transmis-
sion format - labels will be transmitted as EAN13 (refer to section 8.5.4.3).
• Examples: ‘]E00060992011187’ or ‘]E30060992011187’
UPC-E
• AIM does not specify UPCE as a separate symbology using this transmis-
sion format - labels will be transmitted as EAN13 (refer to section
8.5.4.3)..
• Examples: ‘]E00000000998875’ or ‘]E30000000998875’
EAN13
• Check digit must be included in label data and is assumed to be correct.
•Prefix must be ASCII characters ‘]E0’ or ']E3'.
• Total length including prefix must be 16.
• Examples: ‘]E01101234567891’ or ‘]E31101234567891’.
EAN8
• Check digit must be included in label data and is assumed to be correct.
•Prefix must be ASCII characters ‘]E4’.
• Total length including prefix must be 11.
• Example: ‘]E400210126’