Handheld Data Format Requirements General
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Bookland
• The ‘Bookland’ / ISBN code will be formatted as a vendor specific AIM 
label.
•Prefix must be ASCII characters ‘]X0’ 
• Length of label data including prefix is 13. 
• Examples: ‘]X01234567890’
Code 39
• Check character must be included in label data
• Label length including start, stop and check characters and excluding pre-
fix characters must meet requirements imposed by the main scanner’s 
fixed or variable label length control for this symbology type. 
• Start and stop characters “*” must be included in label
•Prefix must be ASCII characters ‘]A0’ or ‘]A1’
• Example: ‘]A0*CODE39.TEST*’
Codabar
• Check character must be included in label data
• Label length including check character and excluding prefix characters 
must meet requirements imposed by the main scanner’s fixed or variable 
label length control for this symbology type. 
•Prefix must be ASCII characters ‘]F0’
• Start stop character sets must meet the matching requirement set forth by 
the scanner configuration item CI_CBAR_START_STOP_CHAR_MATCH
• Start stop character sets s  must be of the form ABCD/ABCD and must be 
included in the label
• Example: ‘]F0s$99.95s’
MSI Plessey
• Check character must be included in label data
• Label length including check character and excluding prefix characters 
must meet requirements imposed by the main scanner’s fixed or variable 
label length control for this symbology type. 
•Prefix must be ASCII characters ‘]M0’
• Example: ‘]M0144769254’
Code 93
•Prefix must be ASCII characters ‘]G0’
• Label length excluding prefix characters must meet requirements imposed 
by the main scanner’s fixed or variable label length control for this sym
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bology type. 
• Example : ‘]G0Code93-test’
GS1 DataBar Omnidirectional
•Prefix must be ASCII characters ‘]e0’
• Check character must be included in label
• Application identifier “01” must follow the prefix and precede the base 
label
• Label length excluding prefix characters must be 16 characters.