SATO CL4NX Programming Reference Manual page 213

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.
Number of cell in
one line(c)
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)
Symbol size
Number of Number of
cell line(d) 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
Number of data
3116
2335
1556
Maximum data digits
Numeric Alphanumeric
6
10
16
24
36
44
60
72
88
124
172
228
288
348
408
560
736
912
1152
1392
1632
2100
2608
3116
10
20
32
44
64
98
205
Briary
3 1
6 3
10 6
16 10
25 16
31 20
43 28
52 34
64 42
91 60
127 84
169 112
214 142
259 172
304 202
418 278
550 366
682 454
862 574
1042 694
1222 814
1573 1048
1954 1302
2335 1556
6 3
13 8
22 14
31 20
46 30
72 47