Intermec 4800 User Guide

When a bar code is scanned, additional information is sent to the host computer 
along with the bar code data.  This group of bar code data and additional, 
user-defined data is called a “message string.”  The selections in this section are 
used to build the user-defined data into the message string.

Prefix and Suffix characters are data characters that can be sent before and after 
scanned data.  You can specify if they should be sent with all symbologies, or 
only with specific symbologies.  The following illustration shows the breakdown 
of a message string:

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It is not necessary to build a message string.  The selections in this chapter 
are only used if you wish to alter the default settings.  

Default prefix = None.  

Default suffix = None.

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A prefix or suffix may be added or cleared from one symbology or all 
symbologies.

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You can add any prefix or suffix from the 

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You can string together several entries for several symbologies at one time.

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Enter prefixes and suffixes in the order in which you want them to appear on 
the output.

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ffix

1-11
alpha numeric
characters

variable length

1-11
alpha numeric
characters