Telepen Numeric

Telepen Numeric

Telepen Numeric is a variant of the Telepen symbology for efficient encoding of numeric data.

Variants:

• Telepen Alpha.

Standards: USS Telepen.

Data and Options

• The data is provided as either pairs of digits or 0X, 1X, etc. The singular values ^000 to ^016 can also be encoded using the parse option.
• When the parse option is specified, any instances of ^NNN in the data field are replaced with their equivalent ASCII value, useful for specifying unprintable characters.
• The mandatory check digit is automatically included.

Examples

A symbol encoding pairs of digits:

Data:    123456
Options:
Encoder: telepennumeric

A symbol encoding data that includes X digits:

Data:    1X345X
Options:
Encoder: telepennumeric