Pharmacode is a barcode standard, used in the pharmaceutical industry as a packing control system. The Pharmacode barcode is found extensively on the packaging of pharmaceutical products, usually on the flap of the box that contains the bottle, tube or sachets of pills within. It is designed to be readable despite printing errors. Pharmacode can represent only a single integer from 3 to 131070.
Sample of a Pharmacode Barcode
In order to get a Pharmacode barcode image, please follow these steps:
- Set the Symbology property to Pharmacode
- Setting up dimensions and quiet zones:
- Set the PharmacodeThinBarWidth property to 0.02 or to a value ranging from 0.016 to 0.028 (Values are expressed in Inches)
- Set the PharmacodeThickBarWidth property to 0.06 or to a value ranging from 0.051 to 0.1 (Values are expressed in Inches)
- Set the PharmacodeBarsSpacing property to 0.04 or to a value ranging from 0.035 to 0.1 (Values are expressed in Inches)
- Set the BarHeight property to 0.31 (Values are expressed in Inches)
- Set the Code property with the value to encode. It must be a numeric value ranging from 3 to 131070. VERY IMPORTANT: Although any values in the last range are valid Pharmacodes, the following numbers MUST NOT BE USED because they will produce non-legible Pharmacode barcodes: 3, 6, 7, 14, 15, 30, 31, 62, 63, 126, 127, 254, 255, 510, 511, 1022, 1023, 2046, 2047, 4094, 4095, 8190, 8191, 16382, 16383, 32766, 32767, 65534, 65535, and 131070