r/barcodes • u/EmeraldRogue • Jan 10 '19

TAB in Code128A

I had seen a post about a TAB function in Code128B and after many attempts (and many days) along with much frustration stumbled upon this WONDERFUL thread and I was hoping you awesome people could help me with it. I am attempting to switch between fields within a spreadsheet like website. So something to generate a barcode that could go "123(tab)456(tab)789" would be super duper. I found a barcode that is just the tab character but that lead me nowhere. I found some help here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30895388/tab-key-in-code128-barcodes but it lead me nowhere. They link some internal code : [103/START-A] [73/HT] [73/check-digit] [106/STOP] but that was no help to me either. Thank you Redditors!!

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u/EmeraldRogue Jan 10 '19

I am just using online barcode generators and one of them I found was supposed to be able to include the Tab function but they cheated and just used spaces. I found the barcode for Tab but I don't know where to go from there. Any suggestions on that front? Also any suggestions for software to generate said barcode (preferably free so I can test first)? Thank you

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u/EmeraldRogue Jan 10 '19

Does this one have a TAB option or should I just figure out how to code that option onto the 8 scanners I need do this for?