Barcode Xpress for Linux v13.1 - Updated
Industry 2 of 5
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Industry 2 of 5 barcodes have been in use since the late 1960’s for airline tickets, photo developing envelopes and warehouse sorting systems. The Industry 2 of 5 barcode is also called Code 2 of 5.

Industry 2 of 5 encodes all of the information in the bars. The spaces are fixed width and are used only to separate the bars. Consequently, it is a fairly inefficient code in terms of how much space is required to encode a single digit.

An example: