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3440 Bar Code Label Printer User's Manual
To create or program the label format
1. Choose a bar code symbology and a human-readable font that suit your
2. Define the parameters for each type of field in the format.
3. Create command strings for each type of field. You must bracket your
5-6
*1233*
needs.
For this example, you are going to use the proportional outline font and
the Code One symbology. See Chapter 6, "IPL Commands," for
information on the different symbologies and fonts available to you.
This Type of Field
Human-readable (text)
Bar code
Line
Box
User-defined characters (UDCs) or graphics
See "Using Printer Commands According to Function" in Chapter 6 for a
list of the parameters you can define for each type of field. For example,
you need to define the following parameters for a human-readable field:
Parameter
field type
field origin
font
field direction
height
width
field source and number of characters
field information between the start of text character (<STX>) and the end
of text character (<ETX>).
When you combine the parameters in the previous table into a command
string, it should look like this:
<STX>H0;o203,102;c28;f0;h30;w30;d0,20;<ETX>
FranklinGothic
Is Represented By
H
B
L
W
U
Value for This Example
H0
o203,102
c28 (proportional outline font)
f0 (horizontal)
h30 (multiplied 30 times)
w30 (multiplied 30 times)
d0,20