Also known as, and, is a widely used bar code symbology defined in standard. Stands for Logistics Applications of Automated Marking and Reading Symbols. It is a variation of as defined in Military Standard. Only accepts 43 valid input characters: 26 uppercase alphas (A - Z), 10 digits (0 - 9), hyphen(-), period(. Slogans Drivers Wanted here. ), space, dollar sign($), slash(/), plus(+) and percent (%). Other input characters will be omitted by the Code39 system. Is a self-checking barcode symbology that usually does not require a checksum digit.

But in applications that require high accuracy, a modulo 43 checksum character is appended after the data. If you download Barcodesoft demo, you will find source code in VBA and C language of checksum calculation. With Barcodesoft Font, it is quite simple to encode. Just put asterisks (*) before and after your data, then apply one of the following. There are fourteen fonts contained in the package as listed below, marked by different trailing indicators. The fonts vary in aspect ratios.