Paxar 9401 manual Determining Format Contents

2. Designing a Format

Determining Format Contents

Decide what you want to print on the supply. Any information should be in the form of text, bar codes, lines, boxes, or graphics.

Each piece of information is either a field or an overlay. Here are the field types and how each type might be used.

Fields

There are three types of fields: text, non-printable text, and bar codes.

Text Fields

Text fields contain alphabetical, symbol, or numerical characters. Here are some uses.

∙Company name or department number

∙Serial number

∙Shipping address

∙Price.

Non-Printable Text Fields

You can define up to 14 fields in a format. The total can be any combination of text, non-printable text, or bar code fields.

Designing a Format

Use non-printable text fields if you want the operator to enter data, but you do not want to print it as entered. For example, you can enter city, state, and zip code in three non-printable fields, then merge them to print as one field.

Bar Code Fields

Select from 7 bar codes: UPC-A, UPC-E, I 2 of 5, Code 39, EAN-8, EAN-13, Code 128. Here are some uses.

∙Item or serial number

∙Merge information from multiple text fields.

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