Glossary

Applies to: BarcoderX Basic and Ultimate

Status: Terms are listed as they are planned to be used. Nothing is released yet.

Term	Meaning
Activation	A step that registers a machine against a license, so that machines can be counted. It sends only the license ID, a hashed fingerprint and the version, and it never blocks output.
API key	A secret that lets a program call the web API.
Application Identifier (AI)	A number in GS1 data, such as 00 for an SSCC, that says what the following data means.
Basic, Ultimate	The two editions of the SDK and the server. Basic has linear and postal symbologies. Ultimate adds 2D, stacked and composite symbologies.
Counter	A number that goes up or down from label to label, such as a serial number.
Diagnostic	A message about something BarcoderX found: an error, a warning or information. It has a code made of `BX` and four digits, and it says where the problem is. See Diagnostic codes.
Dialect	A printer language that BarcoderX writes, such as ZPL or EPL.
Dot grid	The grid of the printer's own dots. BarcoderX draws barcodes and shapes directly on it.
dpi	Dots per inch: the resolution of a printer or of a picture.
Edition	A version of the SDK or server that differs by the barcode symbologies it includes: Basic or Ultimate.
Element	One object on a label: text, a barcode, a picture, a line, a box, an ellipse, a grid, a repeater, an RFID element or a raw command.
Entitlement	A named permission in a license, such as a printer language, a group of symbologies or an output format.
Evaluation mark	The black band with white text that BarcoderX places on every label when output is not licensed.
Family	One of three delivery groups of barcode symbologies. Family 1 is the logistics and retail core. Family 2 is the remaining linear and postal symbologies. Family 3 is composite, advanced 2D and stacked.
Fidelity, NativePreferred	The two render intents. Fidelity keeps print the same as the preview. NativePreferred uses the printer's own commands as much as it can.
Field	A named value in your data, such as `ShipTo.Name`.
Glyph	The drawn shape of one character in a font. See Font support.
Grace period	A short time after a license lapses during which output is still unmarked.
GS1	The organization behind the barcode standards used in retail and logistics.
GS1 Digital Link	A way to carry GS1 data in a web address, often inside a QR Code or a Data Matrix symbol.
GTIN	The GS1 number that identifies a product.
Idempotency key	A value you send with a request so that repeating the request does not do the work twice.
Label set	A template with its data and copies, inside a print job that can hold several.
License key	A signed document that names the licensee, the products, the entitlements and the dates.
Mask	A pattern, such as `(##) ####-####`, that formats a value.
Native, NativeApproximate, Raster, Unsupported	The four ways BarcoderX can print a part of a label. See Printing.
OEM license	A license to put BarcoderX inside a product that you sell or give to others.
Perpetual license	A license that you pay for once and keep. It covers every release dated inside its updates window.
Print agent	A small program on your network that carries print jobs from BarcoderX to your printers.
Printer profile	A description of what one printer can do.
Printer-resident font	A font that lives inside the printer.
Quiet zone	The empty space around a barcode that a scanner needs.
Render intent	The default choice between printer commands and pictures: Fidelity or NativePreferred.
Scope	A permission that a call to the web API needs, such as `render` or `print`.
SDK	The BarcoderX NuGet packages for .NET.
Server	The API server, its worker and the print agent, run on your own infrastructure.
Sequence	A counter kept on your server that gives out blocks of numbers that never overlap.
SSCC	The GS1 number that identifies a shipping unit, such as a pallet or a carton.
Stable, Preview, Planned	The status of a symbology in the registry. See Barcodes.
Stateless render host	A container that serves the rendering parts of the web API without a database.
Symbology	A kind of barcode, such as Code 128 or QR Code.
Template	The document that describes a label. See Templates and data.
Updates window	The period, two years from purchase and extended by each renewal, in which a perpetual license covers new releases.
Variable	A named value in a template that a job can change.
X-dimension	The width of the narrowest bar or module of a barcode.

BarcoderX is a product of P4 Software.

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