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4100 Bar Code Label Printer User's Manual
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By applying magnification factors (h for height and w for width), you can
increase the height or width of a field. If you increase the field height to 2 (h2)
for a base size of a field 79 dots wide by 9 dots high, the field height doubles and
the final field prints 79 dots long by 18 dots high. If you change the
magnification to h3, the field height triples, and the field prints 79 dots by 27
dots.
Increasing the width of a text field to 2 (w2) would make each letter in the field
twice as wide. For the base size in the example above, the final field would
print 158 dots wide by 18 dots high.
Magnifying Bar Code Fields
You can magnify bar code fields by using the height and width commands, but
the commands do not behave the same as with human-readable fields.
For bar code fields, the height magnification is the actual dot height of the bar
code. If you choose a height magnification of h20, the height of the bar code
field will be 20 dots.
Printing narrow bar codes conserves space on each label as well as media in
general, but if you plan to scan bar codes from a distance, you may need to
magnify the bar code widths.
The width magnification factor for bar code fields refers to the width of the
narrowest element of the bar code. The minimum bar code width is 5 mil in
Advanced mode and 10 mil in 86XX Emulation mode. When you specify a
narrow element width of w3, the width of the narrowest element in the bar code
symbology is 3 dots wide. The spaces and large element widths grow according
to preset ratios for each symbology.
The default height for bar code fields is 50 dots, and the default width for
narrow elements is 1 dot. You can magnify bar code fields to print up to 9999
dots high, with a narrow element of up to 9999 dots wide, but you will need
special equipment to scan a bar code that wide.
Positioning Fields
Positioning fields using downloaded commands may be the trickiest part of
designing labels. Since you cannot tell exactly how the field will look until it
prints, you may need to make several test prints before you get the field
positioned exactly right.
For all types of fields, you determine the print position by defining the
coordinates of the upper-left corner of the unrotated field.
Summary of Contents for EasyCoder 4100
Page 1: ...User s Manual 4100BarCodeLabelPrinter P N 057713 005 ...
Page 25: ...1 1 Getting Started 1 Helvitica condensed 9 pt italic Co d e 39 18 p t 1 Getting Started ...
Page 107: ...5 1 Troubleshooting 5 Helvitica condensed 9 pt italic Co d e 39 18 p t 5 Troubleshooting ...
Page 171: ...7 7 1 Printer Commands Helvitica condensed 9 pt italic Co d e 39 18 p t 7 Printer Commands ...
Page 245: ...A A 1 Appendix Helvitica condensed 9 pt italic Co d e 39 18 p t A Appendix ...
Page 259: ...G G 1 Glossary Helvitica condensed 9 pt italic Co d e 39 18 p t G Glossary ...
Page 269: ...I 1 Index I Helvitica condensed 9 pt italic Co d e 39 18 p t I Index ...