Operation Manual

Character Conversion

Product Reference Guide

Character Conversion

Character conversion is an eight byte configuration item. The eight bytes are 4 character

pairs represented in hexadecimal ASCII values. The first character in the pair is the charac-

ter that will be converted. The second character in the pair is the character to convert to. If

e character to convert in a pair is FF, then no conversion is done.

For example, if you have the chara

cter conversion configuration item set to the following:

41423132FFFFFFFF

The first pair is 4

142 or AB (41 hex is an ASCII capital A, 42 hex is an ASCII capital B)

and the second pair is 3132 or 12 (31 hex is an ASCII 1, 32 is an ASCII 2). The other two

pairs are FFFF and FFFF.

With the label, AG15TA81, it would look as follows afte

r the character conversion:

BG25TB82.

The A characters were converted to the B character and the 1 characters were converted to

the

numeral 2 character. Nothing is done with the last two character pairs, since they are all

FF.

To set Character Conversion:

1. Scan the START/END barcode.

2. Scan the Character Conversion barcode.

3. Determine the desired string. Up to sixteen positions

can be determined as in the above

example. Next, turn to the

ASCII Chart on the inside back cover of this manual and find

the equivalent hex digits needed to fulfill the string.

NOTE

The positions not used must be filled with the

aracter ‘F’.

4. Turn to Appendix C, Alpha-Numeric Pad and scan the barcodes representing the hex char-

acters determined in the previous step. When the

last character is scanned, the scanner

will sound a triple beep.

5. Scan the START/END barcode to exit Programming Mode.

START / END

PROGRAMMING BARCODES

DEFAULT SETTING FOR THIS FEATURE:

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF hex (no conversion)

Character Conversion