Automation Rate Barcode Readability Report

The Automation Rate Barcode Readability report displays the results of POSTNET / Intelligent Mail barcode analysis and determines all POSTNET / Intelligent Mail barcode readability issues for the mail pieces that do not meet the barcode specification requirements.  This report is only generated for the mail pieces that display a POSTNET / Intelligent Mail barcode problem.  The report header is shown as Table 1.  The automation Mail barcode image and error type is shown in the following section of the report.  The errors of barcode are indicated by the error codes shown under that bar.  Barcode Readability Failure Codes are shown on the bottom of the report to explain what kind of errors the barcode has. The errors are in capitals, warnings in lower case.  Note:  MERLIN does not check for Skew on short Bars.
Automation Rate Barcode Readability Report Fields
Report Tag	P1	Description	Source	
Permit Number	Y	Permit Number of this Mailing.	The Permit Number entered on the Permit Information screen in the GUI.	
Mailing Date		The date of the mailing.	The Mailing Date field on the Mailing Profile screen in the GUI.	
Mail Type		The type of mail.	The type of mail being processed.	
Readability	Y	The Percentage of Good mail pieces out of the total mail pieces.	The number of good mail pieces divided by the number of mail pieces multiplied by 100.	
Pieces Analyzed		The total number of pieces analyzed for barcode quality in this evaluation run	This field is made up of three subcategories:
•	Non-IMb Pieces Analyzed
•	IM Barcode Pieces Analyzed
•	Missing or Not Decoded Barcode	
MPID		The Mail Piece Identification Number of this problem mail piece.	This is the Identification number sprayed on every piece as it passes through the machine.  This is the exact ID number of a mail piece that MERLIN determined to have a barcode problem.	
Barcode location		One-line description for illegal barcode location	From MERLIN imaging software.  This report tag is shown only if the barcode is in illegal area of the envelope.	
Barcode image		Barcode images marked with error and warning codes	First ten bad images from the IPC are shown.