Royal Mail 2D Settings

Royal Mail 2D Mailmark Barcodes are a variant of 2 Dimensional Datamatrix barcodes. They are used by the British Royal Mail postal service. They contain the address of the receiver, encoded in alpha-numeric format (0-9, A-Z).

To create dynamic barcodes, Metadata options must first have been set. Metadata fields are required to create the association between the dynamic data used in the print run and the barcode.

Use the following options to configure the output Barcode settings:

  • Position group:
    • Orientation: Use the drop-down to select the orientation of the Barcode added to the page.
    • Output once per sheet: Option relates to Imposition (also known as N-Up) printing. Select this box to have the Barcode printed once per sheet rather than once per document page.
      If Imposition options such as auto-positioning and scaling were selected, these options won't apply to the Additional Content added to the physical N-Up sheet.
    • Left: Enter the distance between the left margin of the page and the Barcode, in either metric (cm/mm), inch (in) or point (pt) values.
    • Bottom: Enter the distance between the bottom margin of the page and the Barcode, in either metric (cm/mm), inch (in) or point (pt) values.
  • Royal Mail 2D Properties group:
    • Module Width: The size of each column and row within the barcode. Value must be between 0.5 mm and 0.7 mm.
    • Preferred Version: Select the preferred size of the barcode in terms of rows by columns.
      Depending on the information being embedded, this entry may be overridden if the specified size is not big enough to contain the barcode information.
  • Text: Enter the text used to generate the Barcode.
    • Add button: Click to display a list of variable data that could be used for generating the Barcode.
      This includes metadata fields which must previously have been added in the Metadata Options (likely at the Document Tags level), as well as some information fields.
  • Condition: Enter the condition which determines whether or not the Barcode will be added to the document at print time. For details on how to create a conditional, see the How to Set Conditionals page.
    • Add button: Click to display a list of metadata fields, information fields to add, or common expressions to the condition.
 
  • Last Topic Update: 04, June, 2018 10:15 PM
  • Last Published: 23, May, 2019 01:55 PM