Bar Codes - SATO CT400 Operator And Technical Reference Manual

Command Structure
Command Function
SATO CT Series Printers

Bar Codes

1:3 narrow/wide bar ratio: <ESC>Babbcccd
2:5 narrow/wide ratio:
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
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 at the
end of this section). 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.
9001069A
Section 4. Programming Reference
<ESC>BDabbcccd
Page 4-9