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Codabar

Libraries, blood banks, FedEx airbills

Designed to be printed by dot-matrix printers and read reliably. The start and stop letters (A to D) can carry meaning, which libraries and blood banks use.

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At a glance

Introduced
1972
Created by
Pitney Bowes
Characters
0–9 and - $ : / . +, start/stop A–D
Length
Variable
Check
None required (Mod 16 optional)
Capacity
Limited by width

Example: A40156B

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