Code 128 is one of the most popular modern barcodes. It is a very high density barcode supporting alphanumeric characters. This barcode is used as the basis for many other barcodes like UCC/EAN, HIBC(Health Industry Barcode)
and the Blood Bank Industry barcode.
Other than being high density, this barcode supports the ASCII character set. And is thus increasingly adopted in many different applications. This barcode has 106 unique representations and supports the Full ASCII by using a multiple character set mechanism.
Character Set supported in barcode 128
Code128 Auto - Support Code 128 A/B/C characters. Automatically switch between the different code sets and performs characters optimization
Code128A - ASCII without lowercase characters
Code128B - ASCII without the initial ASCII special characters
Code128C - Numeric
Barcode Font Names and Sizes
ConnectCode Code 128 (Auto/A/B/C) barcode font support up to seven different heights. These barcodes with seven different heights are provided in seven fonts with different names. The barcode names are appended with characters like "S1" or "S2" etc... with each one of them representing a different height. The list below illustrates the seven different fonts that is supplied for Code128.
CCode128_S1
CCode128_S2
CCode128_S3
CCode128_S4
CCode128_S5
CCode128_S6
CCode128_S7
Additionally, ConnectCode also provides a font for Code 128B that includes human text. It is shown below.
