CX208/212 Programming Guide

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

A MSI

C Code 93

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.

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