Abstract: A modular microprocessor-based code printing and reading system, adapted to print a personal coded identifier and other codes relating to categories of school-attendance recordkeeping on a form, and to read the codes from the form to generate data for processing thereof. The system is particularly adapted for use in the school-attendance recordkeeping process, with the codes including a bar code, representing an identifier assigned to the person so identified.The system includes a laser printer, micropocessor-based, operable in response to a laser control program, for printing the codes associated with the particular person at the appropriate location on the form.The system further includes a portable compact reader, microprocessor-based, which includes a wand adapted to sense the bar code on the form. The reader is operable in response to control by the operator, and to a reader control program, for reading the bar code, to generate data relating to the person identified thereby for processing thereof.

Abstract: A modular microprocessor-based code printing and reading system, adapted to print a personal coded indentifier on a form, and to read the code from the form to generate data for processing thereof. The system is particularly adapted for use in the elections process, with the code comprising a bar code, representing an identifier assigned to the person identified, which identifier is random relative to an alphabetical listing of persons so identified.The system includes a laser printer, microprocessor-based, operable in response to a laser control program, for printing the bar code associated with the particular person at the appropriate location on the form.The system further includes a portable compact reader, microprocessor-based, which includes a wand adapted to sense the bar code on the form. The reader is operable in response to control by the operator, and to a reader control program, for reading the bar code, to generate data relating to the person identified thereby for processing thereof.