Magnifying Fonts And Character Fields; Magnifying Bar Code Fields - Intermec 4630 User Manual

4630 and 4830 Bar Code Label Printers User's Manual

Magnifying Fonts and Character Fields

The internal fonts in the printer already have sizes associated with them. For
example, the letters in font c0 are 7 dots wide by 9 dots high, with a 1-dot gap
between characters. If you design a field that prints 10 letters in font c0, the
field will be 158 dots wide by 18 dots high.
Note: The default magnification for a field is 2x2.
By applying magnification factors (h for height and w for width) you can
increase a field's height or width. If you increase the height to 4 (h4) for the
field described above, the field height doubles, and the final field prints 158
dots wide by 36 dots high. If you change the height magnification to h6, the
field height triples, and the field prints 158 dots by 72 dots.
Increasing the width of a text field to 4 (w4) makes each letter in the field twice
as wide. If you did this to the example text field, with field height h2, the final
field would print 318 dots wide by 18 dots high.

Magnifying Bar Code Fields

You can also use height and width command to modify bar code fields, but the
commands do not behave the same as with human-readable fields.
For bar code fields, the height magnification is the actual dot height of the bar
code. If you choose a height magnification of h20, the height of the bar code
field will be 20 dots.
Printing narrow bar codes conserves space on each label as well as media.
However, if you plan to scan bar codes from a distance, you may need to
magnify the bar code widths.
The width magnification factor for bar code fields refers to the width of the
narrowest element of the bar code. The minimum bar code width is 2.5 mil for
drag mode only. When you specify a narrow element width of w3, the width of
the narrowest element in the symbology is 3 dots wide. The spaces and large
element widths grow according to preset ratios for each symbology.
Note: You can only print a bar width of 1 if you are printing in drag mode. If you
select a width of 1 in picket mode, the printer defaults to 2.
The default height for bar code fields is 50 dots, and the default width for
narrow elements is 1 dot. You can magnify bar code fields to print up to 9999
dots high, with a narrow element of up to 999 dots wide, but it requires special
equipment to scan a bar code that wide.
Note: If you are using the POSTNET symbology, follow the rules for magnifying
fonts.
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