IDAutomation Royal Mail 4 State Barcode Fonts

Royal Mail 4 State Barcode Fonts

Easily print the Royal Mail RM4SCC barcode using a font.

•All Royal Mail Fonts require special formatting so that the data, when the barcode font is applied, will be scannable. Over 30  royalty-free font encoders, macros and plug-ins are provided to complete this automatically.

•Contains 4 different Royal Mail font versions in 6 formats.

•TrueType, OpenType, PostScript, and PCL fonts are provided to support Windows®, Mac, Linux and UNIX operating systems.

•With a purchase of the Developer License or above, Web Fonts are included in WOFF, EOT and SVG formats to easily display barcodes in any web browser.

The USPS Intelligent Mail is a similar barcode type used in the USA. IDAutomation offers several products that support Intelligent Mail; however, USPS Intelligent Mail (formerly known as OneCode) support is not provided in this font package.

Royal Mail Barcode Fonts Overview

The Royal Mail 4-State customer barcode, also known as RM4SCC, was created for automated mail sorting processes and is normally used to print the postcode and Delivery Point Suffix (DPS) on letters in machine-readable format in England and the United Kingdom. Royal Mail fonts also implement KIX codes as used by the Dutch PTT for bulk mail addressing. 4-State RM4SCC barcodes are also used in several other places including Singapore, Australia and the Netherlands. The RM4SCC barcode symbology is based on 36 symbols representing alphanumeric characters (0-9, A-Z), as well as start and stop bar characters which are represented by "(" and ")".

 Intelligent Mail is a similar barcode type that is used by the US Postal Service, and is not included as part of the Royal Mail Fonts Package, but in the USPS Postnet Package. IDAutomation does offer a variety of other products that support Intelligent Mail barcode generation.

Encoding Tools Provided:

IDAutomation provides font-formatting functions to assist with integrating the RM4SCC Royal Mail barcode font into applications for 4 State barcodes in the following font encoder tools:

•Microsoft Word & Excel Barcode Add-In

•Excel, Access & Word VBA Macros & Functions

•Crystal Reports Barcode Font UFL

• FileMaker Barcode Plug-In

•Oracle Reports Barcode PLL Library included in Developer License and above

•Complete Index of Barcode Font Encoder Tools

When generating a single barcode, consider using the Online Barcode Font Encoder to encode your data.

Multiple Formats Provided:

This Royal Mail barcode font package includes one TrueType version and two PostScript versions.

•TrueType fonts are supplied in PC and Mac format.  The TrueType version of the Royal Mail 4 State barcode font is compatible with all versions of Windows®, including Windows 7 -10.

 The TrueType TTF fonts are compatible with Mac OS X and all versions of Microsoft Windows, including Pocket PC.

•The PostScript barcode font may be used on Unix systems and may be directly downloaded into PostScript printers. Binary and ASCII versions are provided.

Included with the purchase of a Developer License:

•The Developer License grants the right to convert the fonts to other formats as necessary including TrueDoc and OpenType.

•With a purchase of the Developer License or above, Web Fonts are included in WOFF, EOT and SVG formats to easily display barcodes in any web browser.

Australian Post Address Font Information

The Australian Post Address barcode is another implementation of the 4-State RM4SCC barcode. The Australian Post Address barcode operation 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."

The Australia Post Address barcode may be printed with this package 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," send the text of "012" to the printer. To produce the number "7" under the "N Encoding Table," send the number "21" to the printer.

Printing Royal Mail Barcode Fonts

Any 4-State barcode may be generated using the IDAutomation4State font. The following chart describes the encoding of the IDAutomation4State font: