9560 Transaction Manager User's Manual - Intermec

9560 Transaction Manager User’s Manual
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autodiscrimination
Capability of a reader to read multiple symbologies automatically without a
significant change in first read rate or substitution error rate.
BAK
bad program acknowledgment character
Sent from the reader when the received IRL program has compile errors. The
host must correct and retransmit the program.
bar
The dark element of a printed bar code symbol. The black lines.
bar code
An automatic identification technology that encodes information as parallel
rectangular bars and spaces.
bar code character
A single group of bars and spaces that represent an individual number, letter,
punctuation mark, or other symbol.
bar code density
Number of data characters that can be represented in a linear unit of measure.
Often expressed in characters per inch.
bar code label
A label that carries a bar code symbol.
bar code reader
A device used to read a bar code symbol.
bar code symbol
A printed or photographically reproduced bar code that contains a quiet zone,
a start character, one or more data characters, a stop character, and a trailing
quiet zone. The data characters may include a check character.
bar height
bar length
The bar dimension perpendicular to the bar width.
bar width
The thickness of a bar measured from the edge closest to the symbol start
character and to the trailing edge of the same bar.