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Label Formatting Command Functions
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Embedding
Numeric strings for decrementing may also be embedded between alphabetic characters
(e.g., when systems require alphanumeric bar codes with alphabetic prefixes or
suffixes).
Sample:
<STX>L<CR>
1611000001000101000CD<CR>
- 100<CR>
Q0003<CR>
E<CR>
The sample above will print three labels: 1000CD, 999CD, and
998CD. Note that the pad character is a placeholder for digits
removed from the left side in the subtraction process. When a
fixed pitch font is used, the justification of the rightmost character
is sustained regardless of the number of digits replaced by the pad
character on the left side.
^
Set Count by Amount
This command allows applications using the increment / decrement field command to
print more than one label with the same field value before the field data is updated. The
default is 1.
Syntax:
^nn
^
- May be 0x55 or 0x40; see note below. Where:
nn
- Is a two-digit value that specifies the number of
labels to be generated before incrementing (or
decrementing) the field value.
Sample:
<STX>L<CR>
13220000000000012345<CR>
-01<CR>
^02<CR>
Q0006<CR>
E<CR>
The sample above prints two labels containing the same field
value before decrementing the field. Six labels are printed.

This command can only be issued once per label format. In addition, when alternate
Control Codes are enabled, the ^ character must be replaced by the @ character
(hexadecimal 0x40); see Control Code Command Functions.