Bar Codes - SATO E series Programming Manual

Section 2: Command Codes
Command Structure
Command Function
SATO Programming Reference

Bar Codes

1:3 narrow/wide bar ratio: <ESC>Babbcccd
2:5 narrow/wide ratio: <ESC>BDabbcccd
1:2 narrow/wide bar ratio: <ESC>Dabbcccd
a = 0 Codabar
1 Code 39
2 Interleaved 2 of 5 (I 2/5)
3 UPC-A / EAN-13
4 EAN-
5 Industial 2 of 5
6 Matrix 2 of 5
7 reserved
8 reserved
9 reserved
A MSI
B reserved
C Code 93
D reserved
E UPC-E
F Bookland
G Code 128
I UCC 128
bb = Number of dots (01-12) for narrow bar and narrow
space
ccc = Bar height in dots (001-999)
d = UCC 128 only. Not used for other bar code types
0 No human readable text
1 Human readable at top
2 Human readable at bottom
Example: <ESC>BD103200
Placement: Immediately preceding data to be encoded
Default: None
To print bar code images on a label. With this command, there are 14
standard bar code symbologies available to be printed and three two
dimensional symbols (see Section 5. Two Dimensional Symbols). Each of
the bar code symbologies are unique, and it is important to know the
differences. See Appendix B for specific information on using each
individual bar code symbol.
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