Auto-Discrimination

The NCR 7879 automatically discriminates and decodes a variety of bar code symbologies. Following are the various bar code types recognized by the NCR 7879.

UPC-A and UPC-E

UPC-A and UPC-E with add-ons (Supplemental P2 and P5, C128 Coupon, C128 Markdown)

EAN/JAN-8 and EAN/JAN-13

EAN/JAN-8 and EAN/JAN-13 with add-ons

GS1 DataBar™ -14

GS1 DataBar™ Linear, Omnidirectional, Stacked Omni-directional, Expanded, Expanded Stacked

GS1 DataBar™ expanded at x-10 mil printed on thermal paper by a 200 dpi thermal label printer (heavy use of color on label touching bar code when GS1 has no quiet zone)

GS1 DataBar™ expanded, 4 rows high at x<10 mil printed on shinny paper like in a magazine for coupon testing

Interleaved 2 of 5

Code 39

Code 39 Full ASCII

Code 128

Code 128 Delta Amex Card at aspect ratio of 0.1

THD PVC UPC-A small aspect ratio dot printing

PDF 417

Micro PDF 417

Datamatrix

QR code

Micro QR code

Aztec

MaxiCode

UPC/EAN with 2-digit and 5-digit add-on symbols

Codabar

Italian Pharmacode

Multi-Stage Dual UPC/EAN, Dual JAN

Bookland