Datamax 7A300007 Rev. 2 manual Interleaved 2 of 5 Specifications, UPC/EAN/JAN Specifications

Interleaved 2 of 5 Specifications

Description

Character set

Elements per symbol

Character density Bar width Characters per line

Each symbol starts with Leading Quiet Zone, followed with Start Symbol, Data Symbols, ending with Stop Symbol and Trailing Quiet Zone

numeric pairs

10 (5 bars, 5 spaces)

1.11CPI

25mm

2 inch printer: 16 numeric (maximum), automatically centered

3 inch printer: 24 numeric (maximum), automatically centered

4 inch printer: 35 numeric (maximum), automatically centered

Example: The following escape sequence prints an Interleaved 2 of 5 barcode, encoding “12345678” with 10 mm high, human readable.

Escape Sequence:	Esc	Z	3	8	2	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	CR	LF
Hexadecimal:	1B	5A	33	08	32	31	32	33	34	35	36	37	38	0D	0A
Decimal:	27	90	51	8	50	49	50	51	52	53	54	55	56	13	10

UPC/EAN/JAN Specifications

Description	Each symbol starts with Leading Quiet Zone, followed with Left Guard Bars, Left Data Symbols,
	Center Bar Pattern, Right Data Symbols, Check Character, ending with Right Guard Bars and
	Trailing Quiet Zone.
	The UPC, EAN/JAN-8, EAN/JAN-13 specifications comprise an internationally recognized format for
	application identifiers. Unlike the UCC/EAN-128 specification, these identifiers are intended for point-
	of-sale applications. Only recognized bodies of the UCC and EAN may assign application identifiers.
	More information may be found at:
	http://www.ean.be/ for the EAN and
	http://www.uc-council.org/ for the UCC

Numeric - fixed length

Character set
Elements per symbol	4 (2 bars, 2 spaces)
Character density	14.5 CPI
Bar width	0.25mm
Characters per line	UPC-A:	11 - plus check digit (automatically centered)
	UPC-E:		6 - plus check digit (automatically centered)
	EAN/JAN-8:		7 - plus check digit (automatically centered)
	EAN/JAN-13:		12 - plus check digit (automatically centered)

Example 1: The following escape sequence will print a UPC-A bar code with the following: human readable, 30 mm high, containing “123456789012” where 2 is the check digit. Due to limited spacing CR LF are not shown at the end of this command.

Escape Sequence:	ESC	Z	4	12	240	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	0	1
Hexadecimal:	1B	5A	34	0C	F0	31	32	33	34	35	36	37	38	39	30	31
Decimal:	27	90	52	12	240	49	50	51	52	53	54	55	56	57	48	49
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