This Symbology is used by
Australia Post for Postal code and automatic mail sorting. Australia Post has
chosen the 4-State Barcode, a derivation that is already used successfully by
other postal administrations. It comprises four types of bars (the four
states), each of which has a distinct name, value and barcode symbol.
Sample of an Australia Post 4-State Barcode
The value to encode has the following structure:
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2 digits for Format Control Code (FCC) which only valid values are: 11, 87, 45,
92, 59, 62, or 44 (See table above for more information about each FCC)
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8 digits for Sorting Code or Delivery Point Identifier (DPID)
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Alpha numeric characters (free format) for Customer Information Field (only
available for FCC equals to 59, 62, or 44)
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For FCC equals to 59, this field is limited to 5 characters
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For FCC equals to 62 or 44, this field is limited to 10 characters
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Reed Solomon Error Correction
Barcode Professional implements C Encoding Table which allows
you to encode Customer Information consisting of:
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Uppercase characters, from A to Z
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Lower case characters, from a to z
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Space and # characters
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Digits 0 to 9
In order to get an Australia Post 4-State barcode image,
please follow these steps:
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Set the Symbology property to AustraliaPost
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Setting up dimensions and quiet zones:
All values for barcode dimensions are expressed in INCHES by default. However, Barcode Professional supports other unit of measurement such as Millimeter, Centimeter, and Mils. For modifying the unit of measurement for barcoding, please set up the BarcodeUnit property as needed.
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Set the Postal4StateTrackerBarWidth property to a value ranging from 0.016
to 0.024 (Values are expressed in Inches)
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Set the Postal4StateTrackerBarHeight property to a value ranging from 0.039
to 0.063 (Values are expressed in Inches)
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Set the Postal4StateBarsSpacing property to a value ranging from 0.016
to 0.028 (Values are expressed in Inches)
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Set the QuietZone property to 0.24, 0.08, 0.24, 0.08 - Left, Top, Right, Bottom (Value is expressed in Inches)
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Setting up the value to encode:
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Set the Code property to a value with the following structure:
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2 digits for Format Control Code (FCC) which only valid values are 11,
87, 45, 92, 59, 62, or 44
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8 digits for Sorting Code or Delivery Point Identifier (DPID)
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(Optional) Alpha numeric characters (free format) for Customer
Information Field (only available for FCC equals to 59, 62, or 44)
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For FCC equals to 59, this field is limited to 5 characters
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For FCC equals to 62 or 44, this field is limited to 10 characters
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Examples of values that can be set to the Code property based on the
stated in the previous point:
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1139987520
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1167671415
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5932211324A124B
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5977665544C A P
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5956439111ABA 9
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6282224535555439
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6279438541AaaB 155
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6243289421CAM Num 20
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Reed Solomon Error Correction is automatically calculated and appended by
Barcode Professional.
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Tip: You can rid of the Reed Solomon values from the Human Readable text
by setting up to False the DisplayChecksum property.
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Set the CodeAlignment property to AboveLeft
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Set the Text property to an Empty string