Seiko Group BP-9000 owner manual Bar code and enlarged character, Outline of bar code function

9. Bar code and enlarged character

9. Bar code and enlarged character

The printer can print bar codes and enlarged characters.

To activate the bar code and enlarged character function, set #27 BARCODE/ENLARGED CHAR to MODE 1 or MODE 2 in the EXTENDED SETUP MODE.

This function is applicable to the EPSON or IBM or HP mode. This section describes the outline and details of the bar code and enlarged character function.

❏Outline of bar code function

The printer has 14 types of bar codes.

Software commands and options #27 to #29 on the EXTENDED SETUP MODE are used to print bar codes and enlarged characters.

The software commands are unique to the printer. See the following pages for details of these commands.

1.	Industrial 2 of 5	8.	Code 128
2.	Interleaved 2 of 5	9.	EAN-8
3.	Matrix 2 of 5	10.	EAN-13
4.	Codabar	11.	UPC-A
5.	Code 11	12.	UPC-E
6.	Code 39	13.	Postnet
7.	Code 93	14. Element (Created in elements.)

❏Makeup of bar code

(Example)	CODABAR	ICG
	ICG
		Check	STOP
START
	DATA	Character	Character
Character
		HRI
Margin	Barcode		Margin

Start Character :	Initial character of data
DATA :	Alphanumeric data
Check Character :	Character for check errors in read data
Stop Character :	Last character of data
HRI :	Human Readable Interpretation
ICG :	Gap between characters (Inter Character Gap)
Margin :	Data-free portions must be provided on both sides.
	Each data-free portion must be approximately ten
	times as wide as the narrow space (NS).

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