Code 128 Barcode Introduction

Code 128 Generator Size Setting, Generate & Create Code 128 in C# VB.NET, ASP.NET applications

Code 128 is a variable length, continuous symbology and is widely adopted by many industry applications where a relatively large amount of data must be encoded in a relatively small amount of space.

Barcode Solutions for Code 128 Generating & Reading

Code 128 Barcode Features

Encodable Chars	Code 128 character set includes the digits 0-9, the letters A-Z (upper and lower case), and all standard ASCII symbols and control codes.
Checksum Digit	The check digit is a Modulo 103 checksum.
Subtypes	To represent all 128 ASCII values, there are three code sets (A, B, C) 128A (Code Set A) - ASCII characters 00 to 95 (0-9, A-Z and control codes), special characters, and FNC 1-4 128B (Code Set B) - ASCII characters 32 to 127 (0-9, A-Z, a-z), special characters, and FNC 1-4 128C (Code Set C) - 00-99 (encodes each two digits with one code) and FNC1

Code 128 Barcode Structure

Quiet Zone	Start Character	Data Digits "C128"	Check Digit	Stop Character	Quiet Zone
1	2	3	4	5	6

To set the size of Code 128, two things are of importance, i.e. the X Dimension and the barcode width.
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Barcode Symbologies

2D/Matrix Barcodes

Data Matrix

PDF417

QR Code

1D/Linear Barcodes

Codabar

Code 2 of 5

Code 11

Code 39

Code 93

Code 128

EAN-8

EAN-13

GS1 128 (UCC/EAN-128)

Identcode

Intelligent Mail (OneCode)

Interleaved 2 of 5

ISBN

ISSN

ITF-14

Leitcode

MSI Plessey

Planet

Postnet

RM4SCC

UPC-A

UPC-E