Intermec 6804DM Technical Reference Manual page 83

SECTION 4
2. Enter data between two '|'. If the data is long, DO
PDF--417 has several field parameters that may be speci-
fied:
1. COLUMNS will specify the number of columns of
2. SECURITY specifies the level of error detection and
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3. YDIM specifies the height of each element, in units of
4. WDIM specifies the width of each element, in units of
PDF--417 symbols contains:
1. A maximum of 1848 text characters (fewer if mixed
2. A minimum of 3 rows and a maximum of 30 rows
3. A minimum of 1 column and a maximum of 30 col-
4. Error detection and correction characters vary with
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NOT put CR/LF in data unless you want the CR/LF to
be in the bar code.
DATA printed in each row of the bar code. If not speci-
fied, the default value of 2 DATA columns is used. The
actual COLUMNS used is 4 greater then DATA COL-
UMNS. (2 for GARD COLUMNS and 2 for ROW indi-
cator COLUMNS).
correction codes, from 1 through 8. If not specified,
the default value for the number of data characters to
be printed is used:
1--40 characters
40--160 characters
161--320 characters level 4
321--863 characters level 5
.005 inches. Default is 1
.005 inches. Default is 1
with arbitrary bytes)
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different security levels:
Level 1 adds 4 codewords
Level 2 adds 8 code words
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level 2
level 3
Operation
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