Bar Codes
Command Structure 1:3 narrow/wide bar ratio: <ESC>Babbcccd
2:5 narrow/wide ratio: <ESC>BDabbcccd
1:2 narrow/wide bar ratio: <ESC>Dabbcccd
a = Bar Code Symbol
0 Codabar
1 Code 39
2 Interleaved 2 of 5 (I 2/5)
3 UPC-A / EAN-13
4 EAN-8
5 Industrial 2 of 5
6 Matrix 2 of 5
7 reserved
8 reserved
9 reserved
A MSI
B reserved
C Code 93
D reserved
E UPC-E
F Bookland
G Code 128
I UCC 128
bb = Number of dots (01-12) for narrow bar and narrow space
ccc = Bar height in dots (001-600)
d = UCC 128 only. Not used for other bar code types
0 No human readable text
1 Human readable at top
2 Human readable at bottom
Example: <ESC>BD103200
Placement: Immediately preceding data to be encoded
Default: None
Command Function To print bar code images on a label. With this command, there are 13
standard bar code symbologies available to be printed and three two
dimensional symbols (see Two Dimensional bar code symbols
starting on page 4-99). Each of the bar codes are unique, and it is
important to know the differences. See Appendix B for specific
information on using each individual bar code symbol.
Section 4. Programming Reference
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