Datamax E4203 manual Ecc

Appendix G

Field	Valid Inputs			Meaning
kkk	9,11,13…49.	ECC	140	A 3 digit odd number (or 000) of rows requested. 000 causes rows to be
	minimum is 15.			automatically determined. If the rows and columns do not match, the
				symbol will be sized to a square using the greater of the two values.
lll	9,11,13…49.	ECC	140	A 3 digit odd number (or 000) of columns requested. 000 causes
	minimum is 15.			columns to be automatically determined. If the rows and columns do
				not match, the symbol will be sized to a square using the greater of the
				two values.
mm…m	8-bit data, followed by a			Data to be encoded.
	termination character.

ECC 200 symbols: There are 24 square symbol sizes available, which may be specified in fields kkk and lll, measured in modules as indicated below. If an ECC 200 symbol is specified with odd numbers of rows or columns, the next largest even value will be used. Input values greater than 144 or less than 10 will cause the symbol to be automatically sized for the input character stream. The record structure is expanded for visual clarity.

Record Structure: a W1 b c d eee ffff gggg [hhhh] iii j kkk lll mm…m

Where:

Field	Valid Inputs	Meaning
a	1,2,3, and 4	Rotation
W1	W1	Fixed value, extended barcode set
b	c and C	Lowercase selects the DataMatrix bar code, variable length
		Uppercase selects the Datamatrix barcode with a Byte Count Specifier
c	1 to 9 and A to O	Module size horizontal multiplier
d	1 to 9 and A to O	Module size vertical multiplier
eee	000 to 999	No Effect; Must be numeric
ffff	0000 to 9999	Label position, row
gggg	0000 to 9999	Label position, column (see Appendix J)
[hhhh]	0000 to 9999	Optional string length specifier. Field termination is set by this byte
		count. This decimal value includes all of the data following this byte
		count field, but does not include itself.
iii	200	Reed-Solomon error correction.
j	0	Fixed value, not used
kkk	10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22,	A 3 digit even number (or 000) of rows requested. 000 causes rows to
	24, 26, 32, 36, 40, 44, 48,	be automatically determined. If the rows and columns do not match, the
	52, 64, 72, 80, 88, 96,	symbol will be sized to a square using the greater of the two values.
	104, 120, 132, 144
lll	10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22,	A 3 digit even number (or 000) of columns requested. 000 causes
	24, 26, 32, 36, 40, 44, 48,	columns to be automatically determined. If the rows and columns do
	52, 64, 72, 80, 88, 96,	not match, the symbol will be sized to a square using the greater of the
	104, 120, 132, 144	two values.
mm…m	8-bit data, followed by a	Data to be encoded.
	termination character.

Sample 1: The variable length example encodes “DATAMAX” using a module multiplier of 4, with an error correction level of 80, automatic encodation and determination of rows and columns, and then a prints the bar code. A line of text is also printed.

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