Printing Guide

Font Parameters

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Bar Code Symbols and Formats

Example: Alphanumeric data: 2s

■ OMR

Controls the OMR mark spacing in dots (1/600"). Default value = 85 (1/7").

Code 128 Control Codes

Code 128 has five non-data special control codes called Function Codes, and three

control codes which enable the Bar Code Printing function to switch from one 128

set (A, B, or C) to another one. The switching of the control codes is used to force

one 128 set. For example, the string "123456" can be printed with all sets A, B, and

C. Inserting a character with an ASCII code value of 134 at the beginning of the

string, forces the system to use set B of code 128.

NOTE

Both Code 128 Autoswitch and EAN 128 analyze the data and optimize the bar code

length by switching automatically between sets A, B, and C. EAN 128 and UCC-128

already include the FNC 1 code as the first character. Therefore, you should not send the

FNC 1 code along with EAN 128 and UCC-128 data.

Special control codes are included in bar codes by inserting the following numeric

characters into the bar code:

QRCode

0: Uses the default Japanese font (Automatic: JIS/Shift JIS).

1: Numeric (0 to 9).

2: Alphanumeric (0 to 9, uppercase letters A to Z, spaces, and symbols $%*+-. /:).

3: Binary 8 bits/bytes data (JIS 8 bit character set (Latin and Kana) in accordance with

JISX0201).

4: Kanji characters (Shift JIS values 8140h to 9FFCh and E040h to EAA4h shifted from

JISX0208).

128 = SHIFT Used to switch from character set A to B, or from B to A temporarily. The change

applies to the character following the Shift character. All subsequent characters

are then given in the original character set.

129 = FNC 1 Reserved for future use or special applications, such as UCC-128 shipping

container codes.

130 = FNC 2 A special instruction for the bar code reader to temporarily store data, append it

to the symbol containing the FNC 2 character, and then transmit it together with

the next symbol/character.