Ultracode

Ultracode is a public-domain symbology developed by Zebra Technologies, notable for its long, thin aspect ratio similar to linear barcodes and its support for both monochrome and high-density color printing.

Ultracode was developed by Zebra Technologies and is in the public domain. The symbol is composed of a variable-length strip of pixel columns with non-critical widths. The code includes numeric and alphanumeric modes, with advanced language/code page handling provisions, and selectable levels of Reed-Solomon error correction. Both a black/white version and a higher-density colored version are supported. The symbology uses pairs of vertical columns of either 7 monochrome (dark/light) or 8 multicolored (typically white, red, green, and blue, or cyan, magenta, yellow, and black) cells to encode each datum as a point on character planes of a 43-plane language group.

Ultracode symbols differ from most two-dimensional, error-correcting barcodes in that they have a long, thin aspect ratio similar to existing linear barcodes, and are not positioned as high-capacity symbologies. Ultracode is especially well suited for direct printing with low linear precision.

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