Prefix

Use the Prefix list to force BarTender to add one or more characters to the beginning of your barcode in accordance with the industry standard of your choice, such as GS1 or AIM.

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Data Matrix

When the ECC 200 version is selected for Data Matrix, the following prefixes are supported:

None: Specifies that the data is encoded without a prefix.
Auto (Macro Substitution): Specifies that the appropriate macro prefix is selected automatically.
GS1 FNC1: Specifies that the prefix conforms to specific industry standards as authorized by AIM International.
GS1 FNC1 (Manual Check Digits): Specifies that the prefix conforms to the GS1 standard, with manually selected check digits.
HIBC: Specifies that the prefix conforms to the Health Industry Bar Code (HIBC) standard. Encoding is forced to the US ASCII character set.
Macro 5: Specifies that the 05 Macro header (prefix) and trailer (suffix) are abbreviated in one symbol character to reduce the number of symbol characters that are needed to encode data.
Macro 6: Specifies that the 06 Macro header (prefix) and trailer (suffix) are abbreviated in one symbol character to reduce the number of symbol characters that are needed to encode data.
Reader Initialization: Specifies that the symbol encodes a message that is used to program the reader system.

If you specify a special function character (such as FNC1 through FNC6) at the beginning of your barcode data, and if the Prefix option is selected, the prefix that is specified in BarTender is ignored in favor of the special function character that is located in your data. For more information about special function characters, refer to your Data Matrix documentation.

Prefix

2D-Pharmacode

Data Matrix

GS1 DataMatrix

MicroPDF417

PDF417

Supported Symbologies