Datamax 7A300007 Rev. 2 manual Symbol Character/symbol, Error correction

'M' --- MANUAL

If you specify AUTO you do not need to specify the character mode. If you specify MANUAL you will need to specify the character mode.

7)0x00(NULL)-0xFF - MSB for a message length parameter

8)0x00(NULL)-0xFF - LSB for a message length parameter Total Message Length = (MSB * 256) + LSB

9)'0'(0x30) - '4'(0x34) - Pixel multiplier. '2' - (default)

Multiplication factor = 2^provided value. For Example: '0' -> 2^0=1, '1' -> 2^1=2, '2' -> 2^2=4, '3' -> 2^3=8 and '4' -> 2^4=16

10)'N', 'A', 'B' or 'K' - Character mode(for MANUAL mode only), where: 'N' --- Numeric

'A' --- Alphanumeric (default) 'B' --- Binary

'K' --- Kanji

11)Data string

Example: The following escape commands encode the data “12345678”. Due to space limitation CR LF are not shown

Escape Sequence:

<ESC> ‘Z’ ‘7’ ‘2’ ‘M’ ‘A’ <NUL> <FS> ‘2’ ‘h’ ‘t’ ‘t’ ‘p’ ‘:’ ‘/’ ‘/’ ‘w’ ‘w’ ‘w’ ‘.’ ‘d’ ‘a’ ‘t’ ‘a’ ‘m’ ‘a’ ‘x’ ‘–‘ ‘o’ ‘n’ ‘e’ ‘i’ ‘l’ ‘.’ ‘c’ ‘o’ ‘m’ Hexadecimal:

1	5	3	3	4	4		1	3	6	7	7	7	3	2	2	7	7	7	2	6	6	7	6	6	6	7	2	6	6	6	6	6	2	6	6	6
b a 7 2				d 1		0 c 2			8 4 4 0 a f f 7 7 7 e 4 1													4 1		d 1		8 d f e 5 9 c e 3									f d
Decimal:
									1	1	1	1				1	1	1		1		1		1		1		1	1	1	1	1			1	1
2	9	5	5	7	6		2	5	0	1	1	1	5	4	4	1	1	1	4	0	9	1	9	0	9	2	4	1	1	0	0	0	4	9	1	0
7	0	5	0	7	5	0	8	0	4	6	6	2	8	7	7	9	9	9	6	0	7	6	7	9	7	0	5	1	0	1	5	8	6	9	1	9

PDF 417 Specifications

Description	Each PDF 417 symbol character consists of a stack of vertically aligned rows between 3 and 90. Each
	row includes a start and a stop pattern, left and right row indicators and a maximum of 30 symbol
	characters. The symbol shall include a quite zone on all four sides
Character set	All ASCII and extended characters, 8-Bit binary data and up to 811,800 different character sets
Elements per	Height: Variable (3 to 90 rows) and Width: Variable (90X to 583X)
symbol
Character/symbol	1850 text characters
Error correction	2 to 512

PDF417 Command Structure:

<ESC> – ‘z’ – ‘9’ – CM – SL – SW – SH – EW – EH – MSB – LSB – [User’s Data] Parameters

CM: Compaction Mode. Select a mode to encode the user’s data

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