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User’s Manual
Byte Compaction mode permits all 256 possible 8-bit byte values to be
encoded. This includes all ASCII characters value 0 to 127 inclusive
and provides for international character set support.
Numeric Compaction mode permits efficient encoding of long numeric
data digit strings.
A user may define one of 9 error correction levels labeled levels 0 to
8. All error correction levels, except Level 0, not only detect errors but
also can correct erroneously decoded or missing codewords. There
are 2 (Level 0) to 512 (Level 8) codewords per symbol.
At error correction level 0 there are maximum 925 codewords per
symbol available, which can ecode:
Text Compaction mode:
1850 characters (at 2 data characters per codeword).
Byte Compaction mode:
1108 characters at 1.2 data characters per codeword.
Numeric Compaction mode:
2710 characters at 2.93 data characters per codeword.
The user can select whether the printer tries to automatically determine
the appropriate compaction modes or force byte compaction mode.
The first variant of the command is suitable when only text has to be
encoded, while using the second variant all range from 0h to FFh can
be encoded.
[Sample Program]
LPRINT CHR$ (&H1D) + “k”;
LPRINT CHR$ (9) + CHR$ (0);
LPRINT “ABCDEF 0123456789 abcdef”;
LPRINT CHR$(0);
[Print Results]
Type
Print Sample
Outline of Symbol
UPC-A
12-column fixed-length – barcode
consisting of numerals only
UPC-E
8-column fixed-length barcode consisting
of numerals only. Abbreviated version of
UPC-A
JAN-13
13-column fixed-length barcode –
consisting of numerals only
JAN-8
8-column fixed-length barcode –
consisting of numerals only
CODE39
Variable-length barcode consisting of
alphabets and numerals. The start/stop
code “*” is automatically added.
ITF
Even-column variable-length barcode
consisting of numerals only
CODABAR
Variable-length barcode consisting of
(NW-7)
alpha numerals. Any one of A, B, C and D
is required as the start/stop code.
CODE 93
Variable-length barcode consisting of
alphanumeric and control characters.
CODE 128
Variable-length barcode consisting
of all 128 ASCII code characters.
PDF 417
Two-dimensional stacked barcode
symbology capable of encoding all 256
byte values.
UPC-A, UPC-E, JAN-13 (EAN), JAN-8 (EAN), CODE39, ITF, CODABAR, CODE128, PDF 417
Printing is done depending on barcode specification type, number of print column,
barcode height, width (Magnification), visible code presence, and barcode data speci-
fication.
