Zebra Technologies 14245L-003 manual Data Matrix Symbol Geometries

EPL Commands

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The backslash (\) character designates the following character is a literal and will encode into the data field. Refer to the following examples:

To Print	Enter into data field
"	\"
"Company"	\"Company\"
\	\\
\code\	\\code\\
ø	\↵

Within forms, further limitations include that a NULL (ASCII 0) character may not appear within bar code DATA and entry limitations do not provide for a way to enter linefeed characters into variables.

The programmer should rely on the symbology’s specification to insure format compliance and proper implementation. See the AIM web site for specifications at: http://www.aimglobal.org/

Table 2 • Data Matrix Symbol Geometries

Rows	Columns	Numeric	Alpha-numeric	Compressed
		Capacity..	Capacity_	data size_
8	18	10	6	5
8	32	20	13	10
10	10	6	3	3
12	12	10	6	5
12	26	32	22	16
12	36	44	31	22
14	14	16	10	8
16	16	24	16	12
16	36	64	46	32
16	48	98	72	49
18	18	36	25	18
20	20	44	31	22
22	22	60	43	30
24	24	72	52	36
26	26	88	64	44

1.Paired digits represent the best-case compression. Adjacent digit pairs can be encoded into eight bits.

2.The implied compressibility requires the data be composed of either all lowercase or all uppercase characters with digits and spaces allowed.

3.Any ASCII character (0–127) can be encoded one-to-one, extended ASCII (128-255) requires an additional two-byte overhead.

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