Specifications 161

Features

Zebra Programming Language (ZPL)

ZPL II features include:

•Downloadable graphics, scalable and bitmap fonts, and label formats

•Object copying between memory areas

•(RAM, memory card, and internal Flash)

•Code page 850 character set

•Data compression

•Automatic virtual input buffer management

•Format inversion

•Mirror image printing

•Four-position field rotation (0°, 90°, 180°, 270°)

•Controlled via mainframe, mini-computer, PC, portable data terminal

•Programmable quantity with print, pause, and cut control

•Communicates in printable ASCII characters

•Error-checking protocol

•Status message to host upon request

•Serialized fields

•In-spec OCR-A and OCR-B

•UPC/EAN

•User-programmable password

Bar Codes

 

Types of bar codes include:

 

 

• Bar code ratios—2:1, 7:3, 5:2, 3:1

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LOGMARS

• Codabar (supports ratios of 2:1 up to 3:1)

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MaxiCode

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CODABLOCK

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Micro PDF

•

Code 11

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MSI

• Code 39 (supports ratios of 2:1 up to 3:1)

• PDF-417 (2-dimensional bar code)

• Code 49 (two-dimensional bar code)

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PLANET code

•

Code 93

•

Plessey

• Code 128 (with subsets A, B, and C and UCC case

•

POSTNET

 

codes)

 

 

• Check digit calculation where applicable

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QR-Code

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Data Matrix

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RSS code

• EAN-8, EAN-13, EAN extensions

• Standard 2 of 5

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ISBT-128

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TLC 39

• Industrial 2 of 5

• UPC-A, UPC-E, UPC extensions

•Interleaved 2 of 5 (supports ratios of 2:1 up to 3:1, Modulus 10 Check Digit)

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