Section 4. Programming Reference

Bar Codes

Command Structure 1:3 narrow/wide bar ratio: <ESC>Babbcccd

2:5 narrow/wide ratio: <ESC>BDabbcccd

1:2 narrow/wide bar ratio: <ESC>Dabbcccd

a= Bar Code Symbol

0 Codabar

1 Code 39

2 Interleaved 2 of 5 (I 2/5)

3 UPC-A / EAN-13

4 EAN-8

5 Industrial 2 of 5

6 Matrix 2 of 5

7 reserved

8 reserved

9 reserved

A MSI

B reserved C Code 93 D reserved

E UPC-E F Bookland G Code 128 I UCC 128

bb

=

Number of dots (01-12) for narrow bar and narrow space

ccc

=

Bar height in dots (001-600)

d= UCC 128 only. Not used for other bar code types 0 No human readable text

1 Human readable at top

2 Human readable at bottom

Example: <ESC>BD103200

Placement: Immediately preceding data to be encoded

Default: None

Command Function To print bar code images on a label. With this command, there are 13 standard bar code symbologies available to be printed and three two dimensional symbols (see Two Dimensional Bar Code Symbols at the end of this section). Each of the bar codes are unique, and it is important to know the differences. See Appendix B for specific information on using each individual bar code symbol.

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