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On-Tap lets you add barcodes to all of the documents that you print from UNIX or VMS applications. In addition to the traditional On-Tap software, On-Tap PLUS is available for UNIX and VMS.

On-Tap Plus gives you all of the capabilities of On-Tap with the additional power of 2D barcodes with error correction and the option of using multiple barcode trigger characters.

The chart below summarizes the features available in On-Tap and On-Tap Plus.

Trigger Character	Plot Density
Command Character	Barcode Height
Barcode Types	Padding
Barcode Ratio	Human Readable Text
Check Digit	Orientation
Error Checking	Layers

Barcode Software Feature	Barcode Software Specifications	On-Tap	On-Tap PLUS
Trigger Character	User selectable	√	√
Trigger Character	Multiple characters	N/A	√
Command Character	User selectable	√	√
Command Character	Multiple characters	N/A	√
Barcode Types	Code 39	√	√
	Code 128 - Subset A,B,C	√	√
	Codabar	√	√
	Interleaved 2 of 5	√	√
	Straight 2 of 5	√	√
	MSI	√	√
	UPC - Subset A,B, C, E	√	√
	EAN - Subset 8,13	√	√
	POSTNET	√	√
	AZTEC - Subset A, C, F, R, M	N/A	√
	DATAMATRIX - Subset M	N/A	√
	MAXICODE - Subset A, 2, 3, 4, 6	N/A	√
	PDF417 - Subset T, F	N/A	√
Barcode Ratio	Code 39 and others - 2:1, 3:1	√	√
	UPC, EAN, Code 128 - 4:3:2:1	√	√
	Other user definable ratios	√	√
Check Digit	No Check Digit	√	√
	Code 39 - Mod 43	√	√
	MSI - 1 Mod 10	√	√
	MSI - 2 Mod 10	√	√
	MSI - 1 Mod 11, 1 Mod 10	√	√
	MSI - 1 Mod 10, 1 Mod 11	√	√
	Code 129 - Mod 103	√	√
	I2of5 - Mod 10	√	√
Error Checking	Aztec - Percent of total symbol data, 0 to 99	N/A	√
Error Checking	Matamatrix - 000, 050, 080, 100, 140, 200	N/A	√
Plot Density	Impact printers - Light or dark	√	√
Plot Density	Laser printers - 75 dpi, 100 dpi, 150 dpi, 300 dp	√	√
Barcode Height	Specify height in dots	√	√
Padding	Padding on or off	√	√
Human Readable Text	Turn human readable text on or off	√	√
Orientation	Horizontal, (left to right)	√	√
	90 degrees, Horizontal, Upside down	√	√
	180 degrees, Vertical, top to bottom	√	√
	270 degrees, Vertical, bottom to top	√	√
Layers	Aztec - 0 - 9 Layers of padding	N/A	√

Barcode Software Comparison Chart

On-Tap provides unprecedented flexibility to meet your barcode software requirements today and tomorrow.