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Starting Your Format Design
To prepare a layout of your format design, you must define its
basic elements. You must decide the:
• Size of the supply.
• Number of fields to be printed on this supply.
• Types of fields that will be printed (bar code, line,
graphics or text).
• Location of each field.
• Maximum data length for each field.
• Font style and size for each field.
• Direction each field will be rotated for printing. See
"Rotating a Field."
Section 3 contains a tutorial for entering the sample format you
are about to design. The design for the sample format has:
• Supply size of 1.20 inches wide by 2.00 inches long.
• Field rotation of TOP (the top of each field points toward
the top of the supply).
• Five regular fields, a sub-field, a merged field, and a
graphic box around the date field.
Here’s a print sample of
our design:
9400 Series User’s Manual
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