SATO CL4NX Programming Reference Manual page 206

11. The number of data can be specified in the data part depends on the data format. Available data number is as follows.
(Number of cell is auto setting or the maximum cell number is specified):
Data format
12. The symbol may not be read by a scanner when the cell size is smaller. In the above case, specify enough cell size for the
scanner.
13. The symbol size available in the GS1 DataMatrix is limited to the 30 types in the below table. Also, the maximum number of
data is limited depending on the symbol size. Refer to the "The maximum digit of the number of data" table.
14. Make sure to specify 1BH and 31H at the beginning of the data.
Symbol size and number of data of GS1 DataMatrix.
Symbol size
Number of cell in Number of
one line(c) cell line(d)
10
12
14
16
18
20
22
24
26
32
36
40
44
48
52
64
72
80
88
96
104
120
132
144
18
32
26
36
36
48
* Mixture of Numeric, Alphanumeric and Control code varies according to number of characters.
Data format
Numeric
Alphanumeric
Binary (00H to FFH)
Number of
block
10 1
12 1
14 1
16 1
18 1
20 1
22 1
24 1
26 1
32 4
36 4
40 4
44 4
48 4
52 4
64 16
72 16
80 16
88 16
96 16
104 16
120 36
132 36
144 36
8 1
8 2
12 1
12 2
16 2
16 2
200
Number of data
3116
2335
1556
Maximum data digits
Numeric Alphanumeric
6 3
10 6
16 10
24 16
36 25
44 31
60 43
72 52
88 64
124 91
172 127
228 169
288 214
348 259
408 304
560 418
736 550
912 682
1152 862
1392 1042
1632 1222
2100 1573
2608 1954
3116 2335
10 6
20 13
32 22
44 31
64 46
98 72
Briary
1
3
6
10
16
20
28
34
42
60
84
112
142
172
202
278
366
454
574
694
814
1048
1302
1556
3
8
14
20
30
47