Your barcode number should be listed on the mousepad that we sent when you first started (assuming Antioch students receive the welcome packet). If you did not receive a mouse pad then you'll have to contact the library, as only they can look it up. Just tell them that you are an online student and were not issued an ID card. To make the request use their web form at http://lib.mansfield.edu/askref.html (but I'm not sure if they're open today due to the holiday).

This is a scannable code that allows data on your return to be "read" using high-speed optical imaging processors. As the data is read, it enters Taxation's automated processing system.

There is a web site at which you can enter your PTAO information and the system will validate it and print out a PTAO card with the bar code and the numbers on it. Some service providers (such as Mail Services) have the ability to scan the bar code for input into their billing systems. For other users, the PTAO card is a reference to help people use the correct PTAO. Click PTAO Card Generator at: http://www.virginia.edu/integratedsystem/

A bar code is a reference number on a product that a computer uses to look up associated records, which contain descriptive data and other pertinent information. For example, the bar codes found on items in retail stores don't contain the price or description of the food item; instead the bar code has a 12 digit "product number" in it.

BarCode is an automatic identification technology. It allows data to be collected accurately and rapidly. A BarCode symbol consists of a series of parallel, adjacent bars and spaces. Predetermined width patterns are used to code actual data into the symbol. To read information contained in a BarCode symbol, a scanning device, such as a light pen (or wand), is moved across the symbol from one side to the other.

First it allows individual identification of the animal and the bar code can be easily read with a scanner. Second, the Canadian Cattle Identification Agency issues the numbers to the CACP, and the number, bar code and country code, conform to their standards. The number is associated with the bar code, each time you order, a new sequence of numbers will be registered to you.

Both keyboard wedge and serial interfaced scanners are supported through connection to a register, terminal or PC workstation.

You FIRST contact the Uniform Code Council at 1-937-435-3870 for an application. This organization monitors the UPC program and assigns and tracks the numbers.

You don't need a bar-code scanner to run RetailEdge effectively. Scanners will speed up entering items at the point-of-sale and may reduce errors, but you do not need one. If you determine that you would like a scanner, there a number of different types you can choose from. CCD (Charged Coupled Device) Scanners. These are very inexpensive but are not as effective at reading barcodes on uneven surfaces. However, they are typically more durable than a laser because they have no moving parts.

BarCode Wands are the most popular BarCode readers or scanners, due to their low cost. Wands are manually moved across BarCodes to perform the reading function, hence their classification as "contact" scanners. BarCode Wand are extremely simple to use, but require users to keep a reasonably constant scanning motion across the BarCode, and a flat surface behind the BarCode to support the pressure applied by the operator during the scanning motion.

BarCode CCD Scanners are faster and easier to use than Wand Scanners. User simply holds the CCD Scanner slightly above the BarCode, and pulls the trigger button. CCD scanners typically read BarCodes from contact to about one-half inch distance, hence their classification as "near-contact" scanners. BarCode physical length must be considered when using CCD BarCode Scanners, as the complete BarCode must be covered by the CCD scanner optical head.

BarCode Laser Scanners are faster and easier to use than Wand or CCD Scanners. User simply holds the Laser Scanner above the BarCode, and pulls the trigger button. Laser scanners typically read BarCodes from near contact to 12 inch distance (some models up to four feet), hence their classification as "non-contact" scanners.

A BarCode Keyboard Wedge Decoder is a microcomputer which decodes the signals generated by a BarCode Scanner (while reading a label), and converts the analized bar and space patterns into the original data. The BarCode Decoder then converts the recovered data into the same codes that the Keyboard generates (aka: keyboard codes), in order to "fool" the PC into believing that the scanned data was typed on the keyboard.

A Bar Code Portable Reader is an integrated microcomputer system, which includes a display, key-pad, BarCode decoding capability, RS-232/USB communications port, batteries, and memory for data and program storage. For BarCode data collection, the system can be equiped with BarCode Wand, CCD, or Laser Scanners. The system provides operators with prompts, in response to which, operators enter data via key-pad or BarCode Scanners.

A BarCode TrueType Font, is a font just like the ones you already have on your PC (Arial, Courier, Times New Roman). You install, select and use the BarCode fonts just like you would any other. The only difference is that when you display or print using the BarCode Fonts, instead of regular letters or numbers, you get bar and space patterns corresponding to the characters being typed (or displayed, or printed).

The most popular BarCode Printer is the typical HP Compatible Laser Printer. Laser Printer resolution is usually better than Industrial BarCode Printers, and the cost per label is typically insignificant (since you probably already have a laser printer). A wide variety of label sizes is available from the Avery Laser Label mailing label series, and the cost is usually a fraction of a cent per label.

The most popular BarCode format is the UPC (Universal Product Code) Format, which we find in all supermarket products. Available since the early 1970's this format is known worldwide, and is universally recognized. For Automatic Identification Applications, however, BarCode CODE 39 Format is the de facto standard for Government, Manufacturing, BarCode Industry, Education, and Business applications.