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b Command - 2D Bar Code - PDF417 Specific Options

"DATA" = ASCII data or Binary data bytes Represents a fixed data field.

The backslash (\) character designates the fol- lowing 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\\
￿	\￿

PDF417: General A PDF417 symbol is organized into minimum Information 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.

Multiple 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.

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