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Universal Product Codes (UPC)
DocumentID: 646353
Revision Date: 29-Feb-96 8:19:14 PM

The information in this document applies to:
WordPerfect® 5.1 for DOS

Problem

Solutions: The Universal Product Code (UPC) was set up to use in supermarkets. It is designed to uniquely identify a product and its manufacturer. Version A is the most common barcode font, which is a fixed length, numeric, continuous symbology which encodes 12 digits: six digits on the left and six digits on the right with a Center Guard Pattern "-" in the center and a Left Guard and Right Guard Pattern at the beginning and the end of the code. It reads the first code that starts the scanning and then ends with the occurrence of the same code which is the "(". The left is the Odd Parity and the right is the Even Parity.

( = Left Guard Pattern
- = Center Guard Pattern
( = Right Guard Pattern


Left Half (Odd Parity)
You can use any six of these ten digits on the left side of the hyphen. The odd parity referring to the left side means only numeric characters.

0123456789

Right Half (Even Parity)
You can use any of these ten digits in the relationship to the number in the same order, i.e., a=0, b=1, c=2, etc. The even parity referring to the right side means only alphabetic characters.

ABCDEFGHIJ

In the following example the first code is the Manufacturer and Product code and the second is the actual number to create the code inside WP.

771492 110514 (77149-BBAFBE(

NOTE: The customer must have a barcode font for the printer that is being used. WP DOS may not currently have the capability to display the barcode characters on the editing screen or in View Document.

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