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SATO CX Series Printer
Bar CodesBar CodesBar CodesBar CodesCommand 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
1Code 39
2 Interleaved 2 of 5 (I 2/5)
3 UPC-A / EAN-13
4EAN-8
AMSI
CCode 93
EUPC-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 ty-
pes
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 thi s command, the-
re are 13 standard bar code symbologies avai lable to be
printed and three two dimensional symbols (Two Dimensio-
nal bar code symbols (See page 88)).