USPS Intelligent Mail barcode packing function?

[Bob Rasmussen]

On Tue, 4 Sep 2007, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:

> Further to my message from last Friday, the issue actually is that the
> USPS is replacing PostNET (and PlaNET, apparently, though I hadn't
> ever heard of that) with a new barcoding system called Intelligent
> Mail; it will be a 4-level barcode that looks like PostNet, but with
> extra bars sticking out the other direction... and most importantly for
> our purposes here today, the data is packed before encoding -- unlike
> Postnet and other barcodes where each digit maps directly into a
> collection of bars.
> 
> If you mail at automation rates, you have to convert to IM by 2009.
> 
> So, before I go off and write the code myself, has anyone *else*
> already written the filePro code that maps the collection of 31 max
> digits into 65 max barcode bars (full, ascender, tracker, descender)?

It would be a logical extension of Print Wizard for us to add an IM 
barcode generator, to complement our 15 other styles. This would give you 
a solution that would work on any printer, and be easy to use via 
printcodes.

We evaluate features like this on a strictly mercenary basis :-)  If you'd 
like to discuss this, please contact me off-list.

Regards,
....Bob Rasmussen,   President,   Rasmussen Software, Inc.

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