Choose Right Types of Barcodes for Publication By: Teachable Tech | June 18, 2022

ISBN (International Standard Book Number)

ISBN system is utilized to automate ordering and inventory systems for publishing houses, book distributors, booksellers, libraries, and retail bookstores. In ISBN 13, the barcode is standard EAN13, which encodes the ISBN number. A second barcode stores either 2 or 5 characters of extra data. ISBN 13 barcode is used to encode the price of the book.

Universal Product Code

US standard is A for 12 digits and E for 6 digits. It is the common code extensively used in retail trade. Its standardization in a form that allows many organizations throughout the world to interpret the same data is its most prominent advantage. It also uses space efficiently to record the data. Its limitation is that it can only record certain lengths of numbers.

EAN

European Article Numbers are available in two varieties. EAN-8 is used to encode 8 digits, while EAN-13 digits encode 13 digits. EAN13 barcodes encode 13 characters; the first two or three digits represent the country code, which identifies the particular country in which the manufacturer is registered. EAN8 barcode includes a 2 or 3-digit country code, 4 or 5 data digits (depending on the length of the country code), and a checksum digit.

Codabar

Codabar is a barcode symbology commonly used to encode publishing information. The basic 12 symbols (digits 0-9, dash, and $) are encoded using all possible combinations of one wide bar and one wide space. An additional 4 symbols (+ : /.) are encoded using 3 wide bars and no wide spaces. The four start/stop symbols (ABCD, or EN*T) are encoded using one wide bar and two wide spaces.

Industrial 2 of 5 Font

Industrial 2 of 5 symbology is called "2 of 5" because it consists of 2 thick and 3 thin bars out of a total of 5 bars. The code represents the number of the barcode and obtains something that looks like a valid result.