Zebra Technologies 14245L-003 manual Settings of 90 & 270 will cause the symbols maximum

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EPL Commands

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Parameters	Details
p15(o) = rotation	Accepted Values:
	0 = 0º
	1 = 90º
	2 = 180º
	3 = 270º
	Settings of 90° & 270° will cause the symbols maximum
	height (p4) andwidth (p5) values to transpose when
	automatically calculating and generating the symbol, i.e.
	the height would affect column dimensions and width
	would affect row dimensions.
“DATA” = ASCII data or	Represents a fixed data field.
binary data bytes	The backslash (\) character designates the following character
	is a literal and will encode into the data field.
		To Print	Enter into data field
	"		\"
		"Company"	\"Company\"
	\		\\
		\code\	\\code\\
	ø		\↵

PDF 417: General Information

A PDF417 symbol is organized into minimum of 3 to a maximum of 90 rows and a minimum of 5 to a maximum of 34 columns of codewords.

Each codeword is 17 modules wide. There are 4 bars and 4 spaces per codeword.

Multiply the module width (in dots, p10) by 17 to get the codeword width.

Multiply the module height (in dots, p11) by the number of rows to get the symbol height.

Four of the codewords in each row are start, stop and two row indicators. The remaining codewords are referred to as the data region and contain symbol overhead and compacted data.

There can be no more than 928 codewords in the data region. All combinations of rows and columns are not legal; 90 rows times 30 columns would produce a data region of 2700 codewords which exceeds the 928 codeword maximum per symbol. See the following table (on the next page) that shows the maximum number of rows and the resulting number of codewords in the data region for each column count.

14245L-003 Rev. A EPL Programming Guide 12/16/13