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This is on the back of a photo and I'm just wondering what the numbers mean

01680010081001 Line [65] Qty-(1)
7039551 F33 WalMart.com

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    Possible duplicate of Identify date from code on back of print photo – Michael C Mar 02 '18 at 03:45
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    @MichaelClark it doesn't look like a duplicate as the code format is very different. – Drew Noakes Mar 02 '18 at 08:09
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    Go to your local Walmart and ask them what the coding means. – Mike Sowsun Mar 02 '18 at 12:53
  • @DrewNoakes As the answers to the other question inform, the formats and what information each field represents can be changed by the user of the machines, such as the Fuji Frontier which was a very popular system. Saying since the the format is not the same it can't be from the same type of machine is like saying the same kind of typewriter could not have produced two different letters because they use different words and paragraph formatting. – Michael C Mar 02 '18 at 14:11
  • @MichaelClark I read the other answer and it was very interesting. I interpret Users have some leeway in assigning what information is printed as meaning only minor changes. This output is clearly significantly different. – Drew Noakes Mar 02 '18 at 18:39
  • @AlexNightingale, do you have more examples from other photographs? Comparing a few images, even from the same batch, might reveal something useful. – Drew Noakes Mar 02 '18 at 18:40
  • @DrewNoakes The machines were/are flexible enough to print whatever the user wants. They came from the factory with a default profile, but rare was the machine that was left with that profile intact. Especially larger customers, such as Walmart, had the setup altered to their own specification at the time. Different regions within Walmart may have had different setups. Over a couple of decades, I've seen the prints I had done at Walmart (which as far as I know used Fuji exclusively from the mid 1980s until they stopped developing film in -store) with many different setups... – Michael C Mar 02 '18 at 22:34
  • ... , even when prints were printed several months/years apart on the same machine in the same store. The user could choose from a wide variety of information to include or not and choose how it was arranged. I used to deliver the machines in the 1990s (but did not set them up - we were just transportation service though we did have to place it in the spot in the photo-lab area where it was to be installed). – Michael C Mar 02 '18 at 22:37

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I used to get Kodak Advantix photographs printed out with text like that. Usually it encoded the date/time of printing, some camera settings, customer order number and serial number of the machine used to do tbe printing.

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