Character Set: Alphanumeric, Uppercase/Lowercase Letters, Punctuation, Controls
Character Size: 93 alphanumeric characters or 138 numeric characters fixedlength
Fault Tolerance: High
Application: Sorting, tracking
Designed with the intention of encoding postal information, Maxicode is a unique
bar code array of hexagonal dots, rather than rectangular bars, and distinctive
center target of concentric circles. Although Maxicode encodes far less data than
other matrix codes, it has the perfect amount of data store for encoding most
package addressing.
Maxicode was developed by United Parcel Service of America, Inc. (UPS) and since
has been adopted by AIM and AN SI as the suggested symbology for product sorting
and tracking. Although this is a widely used code, creating properly formatted
Maxicode labels for use in the UPS system is complex because of the applicationspecific
requirements of the UPS system.