Black Box PC124C Installation Manual page 146

To show how multiple character sets are used, study the following data string.
Height, width and other parameters were omitted in this example to focus your
attention on the data string. Please note that this example is for illustration
purposes only, and is not a recommended way of bar coding. The following data
string is a fairly complex way of bar coding 10PrintBoxes10
¬B2,...,A1716~6PrintBoxes~510¬B
A:
17:
16:
~6:
PrintBoxes:
~5:
10:
Symbol Character
Value
00
01
02
03
04
05
06
07
08
09
LASER CARDS FOR HP 4000 TWINAX AND COAX PRINTERS
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
selects code set A
selects the number 1 from code set A
selects the number 0 from code set A
switches from code set A to code set B
selects the characters PrintBoxes from code set B
switches from code set B to code set C
selects the number 10 from code set C
Code A
SP
!
"
#
$
%
&
'
(
)
Data Character
Code B
SP
!
"
#
$
%
&
'
(
)
Code C
00
01
02
03
04
05
06
07
08
09
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