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MSI Plessey Barcode Fonts
Aka: MSI Code or Pulse Width Modulated Barcode

Implementing barcode solutions with IDAutomation Bar code Font Advantage Packages provides high-quality barcode printing results for multiple operating systems and applications. This package includes MSI Plessey Barcode Fonts with the following features:
 

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  • MSI Plessey barcode fontsMSI Plessey - Easy-to-print barcode font designed in the 1970s by the Plessey Company in England and has been used primarily in libraries and retail applications.
  • Numeric Character Set - The symbology of the MSI Plessey character set consists of barcode symbols representing the numbers 0-9, the start character and the stop character and requires a check digit to be calculated.
  • Cross-platform Support - The unique encoding in IDAutomation's MSI barcode font allows cross-platform support between UNIX, Macintosh and Windows® systems.
  • Several Font Formats Supplied - TrueType, OpenType, PCL laserjet soft fonts and PostScript font versions are included.
  • Multiple Versions Provided - Eight (8) different versions of the MSI Code barcode fonts are provided to support different width and height requirements.
  • Over 30 Font Tools Included - Used to automate the process of adding start codes, stop codes and calculating the check digits for barcode fonts that require them.

MSI Code Check Digit Calculation Example


To sign up for monthly updates about new products or upgrades, please click here.To help users integrate barcodes into applications, font automation tools are provided such as MS Office Macros for Word, Excel and Access, Visual Basic, ANSI C and JAVA Source Code, ActiveX DLLs for development platforms that support Microsoft's ActiveX / COM technology, Crystal Reports User Function Libraries (UFLs) and a check digit calculation application with Visual Basic source code as a free download for programmers and technical users. The DLLs, macros, UFLs and code provided automatically format the start, stop and check characters to the barcode font.

This is how the check digit is manually calculated for the MSI Plessey Code barcode:

  1. In this example, the number to be encoded is 173946. Starting from the right side of the number (the units position), collect all of the odd position digits (i.e. digit 1, digit 3, digit 5, etc.) and create a new number leaving the digits in their left to right order. The new number would be 796. 
  2. Multiply the new number by 2. (796 x 2 = 1592)
  3. Add the digits of the product created in Step 2. (1 + 5 + 9 + 2 = 17)
  4. Starting from the right side of the number (the units position), collect all of the even position digits (i.e. digit 2, digit 4, digit 6, etc.) and create a new number leaving the digits in their left to right order. The new number would be 134. 
  5. Add the digits of the number created in Step 4. (1 + 3 + 4 = 8)
  6. Add the sums obtained in step 3 and 5. (17 + 8 = 25)
  7. Determine the smallest number, when added to the result of Step 6 (25) that will produce a multiple of 10. This value is the remainder obtained when dividing the result of Step 6 (25) by 10. Twenty five (25) divided by 10 = 2 with a remainder of 5. The check digit is 5.
  8. (1739465) will need to be typed or printed with the MSI barcode font applied.

 

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