IDautomation 4-State Fonts
4-State Barcode Fonts for Printing RM4SCC, KIX Codes, PostBar and Australian Postal Codes
Platforms: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003 Size: 159 K Cost: $590
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Publisher: IDAutomation.com, Inc. 
Descriptions
IDautomation 4-State Fonts:
 4-State Barcode Fonts for
Printing RM4SCC
(Royal Mail 4-State Customer
Codes)
KIX Codes, PostBar and Australian Postal Codes
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Easily print RM4SCC bar codes as a font for automated
mail sortation and addressing in the UK.
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Contains 4 different RM4SCC font versions in 6 font
formats
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Font tools, macros & plug-ins are provided for
easy integration into your application
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Supports KIX Codes, PostBar, Australian Postal Codes
and and other specifications based on RM4SCC 4
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TrueType, OpenType, PostScript, and PCL fonts are
provided to support Windows®, Macintosh, DOS and UNIX operating systems.
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Custom BDF, FON, AFP, Xerox Metacode, XES and FNT fonts can
also be created with the Developer's License and one year of support.
Implementing solutions with our fonts provides a high level of
scalability with operating system, application and printer independence. Learn
more about the quality of our fonts.
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Royal Mail 4 State Customer Code Barcode Font
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- The Royal Mail 4-State Customer Code (RM4SCC) was created
for automated mail sortation processes and is normally used to print the
postcode and Delivery Point Suffix (DPS) on letters in machine readable
format.
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The RM4SCC fonts are used to print the 4-State
Customer Code barcodes for automated mail sortation and addressing in the UK.
The RM4SCC 4 State barcode fonts also implement KIX codes as used by the Dutch
PTT for bulk mail addressing. 4-State barcode fonts are also used in several
other places including Singapore, Australia and the Netherlands.
- The Royal Mail 4-State Customer Code (RM4SCC) is
based on 36 barcodes representing alphanumeric characters (0-9, A-Z), as well
as start and stop bar characters which are represented by ( and ).
- The TrueType version of the Royal Mail 4 State
Customer Code bar code font is compatible with all versions of Windows®
including Windows® 3.1, Windows® 95, Windows® 98, Windows® NT, Windows® 2000
and Windows® XP.
- Although Royal Mail 4 State Customer Code fonts are scaleable, they were
designed to be printed at 12 points. The Royal Mail 4 State Customer Code barcode
symbols also meet Royal Mail specification tolerances when printed at 11
or 13 points. The following is sample code from
Visual Basic that selects the Royal Mail 4 State Customer Code font and size.
Printer.FontName =
"IDAutomation4STATE"
Printer.FontSize = 12
Printer.Print
variable
- To help users integrate RM4SCC barcodes into their applications, we
provide MS Office Macros for
Excel and Access, LotusScript,
ActiveX
DLLs for development platforms that support ActiveX technology,
Crystal
Reports User Function Libraries (UFLs) and a
check
digit calculation application with Visual Basic source code as a free download for
programmers and technical users. The DLLs, macros, UFLs and VB code provided
automatically format the start, stop and check characters to our RM4SCC
barcode font.
- The Royal Mail 4-State Customer Code bar code font package includes
one TrueType version, one OpenType version and two PostScript versions of the Royal Mail 4 State
Customer Code Postal bar code font. The PostScript Royal Mail 4 State Customer
Code bar code font can be used in Unix systems and may be directly downloaded
into PostScript printers. Binary and ASCII versions are provided.
- TrueType fonts are supplied in PC and Macintosh format. The TrueType TTF
fonts are compatible with Macintosh OS X and all versions of Microsoft®
Windows®, including
Pocket PC.
- With the purchase of a Developer License and 1 year of support and
upgrade protection, we can convert fonts from this package to PCL 4, Xerox
Metacode, XES, FNT, BDF, FON and AFP. More about this is
provided here.
The Developer License also grants you the right to convert our fonts to
other formats as necessary including TrueDoc and OpenType.
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Australian Post
Address Barcode Font Info:
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- The Australian Post Address barcode is another implementation of the
4-State barcode. However, their implementation uses different encoding
tables than the RM4SCC barcode to encode 64 different barcodes in the
"C Encoding Table" and 10 in the "N Encoding Table".
They also use Reed Solomon error checking instead of a single check
character.
- The Australia Post Address barcode can be printed from our fonts by
sending the appropriate bar state value for each bar of the character to the
printer with the "IDAutomation4State" font selected. For example, to
produce the character "H" under the "C Encoding Table",
you would send the numbers "012" to the printer. to produce the
number "7" under the "N Encoding Table", you would send
the numbers "21" to the printer.
- For more information about the Australia Post Address barcode, please
visit the Future Post
website. At this website they provide a guide
to print the 4-State barcode and Visual
Basic programming code for calculating the Reed Solomon error
correction.
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Printing Other
Implementations of the 4-State Barcode:
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There may be other implementations of the 4-State barcode. Any
implementation of the 4-State barcode can be produced with our fonts by
sending the appropriate bar state value for each bar of the characters to
the printer with the "IDAutomation4State" font selected as is done with
the Australian Post Address barcode. Below is a chart that describes the
encoding of our "IDAutomation4State" font:
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Tracker and Descender |
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To Order the 4-State RM4SCC Barcode Font License
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NOTE: After you order the font license, you will receive our fully functional font package.
Included in this package is both the
RM4SCC fonts and the generic version of the 4-State font. Before you order, we suggest that you download the evaluation version of the
font to make sure it will work with your application. You
may also wish to do the following:
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We offer secure online ordering by credit card and
immediate delivery via download after your order is approved. If ordering by PO, phone or another method, please
follow
these procedures.
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Pricing and Licensing:
The following is a summary of licensing and pricing, refer to the
License Agreement for
details about the license.
- The Small Company Developer License costs $295.
With this license, the rights of the Developer License are
granted to all organizations with a gross annual revenue or funding of less
than 2 million U.S. Dollars (or equivalent amount in a foreign currency) if
that company purchases either three (3) Single User Licenses for the same font product
or the Small Company Developer License and sends us a signed Small Company Agreement
which is
located at http://www.idautomation.com/sca/.
- The Developer License
costs $590 and allows one developer royalty-free
distribution of the Software internally (in the same organization) and
externally (outside the organization bundled with an application) up to 10,000
user licenses, provided you adhere to the
Developer License
distribution terms. When distributing the fonts outside your organization,
you may not resell, rent, lease or distribute the fonts alone, they must be
distributed as a component of an application and bundled with an application
or with the application's installation files. For details, review the the
distribution terms.
If you have more than one developer that will be developing applications using
the fonts, you will need to purchase a Developer License for each additional
developer.
- The 5 Developer License
costs $1180 and grants the rights of the Developer
License for up to 5 developers and 20,000 user licenses. This license is also
granted if two Developer Licenses are purchased.
- The Unlimited Developer License
costs $1770 and grants the rights of the Developer
License for an unlimited number of developers and an unlimited number of user
licenses. This license is also granted if three Developer Licenses licenses
are purchased.
- The Single User License costs $99 and allows use of the Software for one effective user in your
organization. The number of effective users for software licensing is
determined by the method defined below that returns the greatest number.
- The number of users contributing to the data that
is printed with the Software. For example, 100 users entering or editing
data on a host where only 1 program prints barcodes to 1 printer, would
require 100 user licenses. According to the multi-user licensing below, this would require
4 Single User Licenses to be purchased.
- The number of users that have the Software installed on
their CPU.
- The number of printers that are being printed to with
the Software. For example, 1 user printing to 5 printers would require 5
licenses. Per the multi-user licensing below, only 2 Single User Licenses would need to
be purchased.
- Multi-User Licenses are obtained by ordering
multiple single user licenses of the same product. The effective number of
licensed users is determined by the following:
1 Single User License = 1 licensed user
2 Single User Licenses = 5 licensed users
3 Single User Licenses = 25 licensed users
4 Single User Licenses = 100 licensed users
5 Single User Licenses = 500 licensed users
6 Single User Licenses = Developer License Granted for 10,000 licensed users
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The Complete
Barcode, MICR and OCR Font License allows you to order all of
our fonts in one package for a reasonable price. Single user versions are
available as well as multi-user and developer licenses. View the link above for
pricing on this license.
- We offer free technical support and product upgrades for a
period of 90 days from the date of purchase on all software products.
Technical support and product upgrades may be provided beyond 90 days if the
Extended
Support and Upgrade Protection option is purchased when you order.
If you have any questions or need assistance, please
contact us.
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The 4 State Code fonts are used to print RM4SCC (Royal Mail 4-State Customer Codes), Dutch KIX Codes, PostBar and Australian 4-State Postal Codes. TrueType, PostScript, PCL, BDF and FON fonts are provided.
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