Selecting Bar Code Options - Brady POWERMark User Manual

Selecting bar code options

Follow this procedure to choose bar code attributes, including the symbology, for all
labels in the text buffer:
1) Hold down the Shift key and press the Bar Code key.
The Bar Code Attributes window displays.
2) Press the ↑ or ↓ key to move the cursor to the option you want to set.
3) When the option you want to set is highlighted, press the ← or → key to scroll through
the available settings. (Refer to the table below.)
4) When the settings you want to use are displayed, press Enter.
Bar code option
Symbology
Height
Density
3-32
Bar Code Attributes
Symbology:
Height (1.0 - 8.5 inches):
Density:
Human readable text:
Press ↑↓←→, ENTER or ESC
What it does
Sets the bar code symbology. The available symbologies are Code 39, Code 128A,
Code 128B, Code 128C and Interleaved 2 of 5.
Determines the bar code height. Enter values from 0.25 to 8.5 inches (default is 1.0)
or from 6 to 215 mm. The unit of measure is the Length units setting. (Refer to
ting system defaults
able text.
Controls the width of the bar code's narrow elements. This setting determines the
width of the quiet zone (the clear space that precedes the bar code's start character
and follows the stop character). The quiet zone width is ten times the density value
you select. Choose 10, 20, 40, 50, 60, 80 or 100 mils.
Code 39
3.50
20 mil
Below
on page 1-26.) This height does not include the human-read-
Set-
Working with bar codes