Instruction manual

Option 42 (Price Field)
You can apply options that automatically inserts monetary symbols. Do not use this option with
Option 31 (define a check digit), Option 60 (increment or decrement a field) or bar code fields.
When determining the maximum number of characters, add the maximum number of digits and
the monetary symbols.
Syntax R,42,app code p
R1. R Option Header.
R2. 42 Option 42.
R3. app code Appearance code. Enter 1 to print price field in standard notation, as defined by country setting.
Use the monetary formatting packet to select monetary notations and symbols by country setting.
See “Defining the Monetary Formatting Packet” for more information.See Appendix C, “Symbol
Sets/Code Pages,” to make sure the monetary symbol you want to use is printable in the font
selected for this field. For monetary symbols other than the dollar sign, use the internal symbol set.
Example R,42,1 p
Uses a price field that prints the monetary symbol and notations as defined in the monetary
formatting packet.
Option 50 (Bar Code Density)
You can apply this option to bar code fields when you want to create custom densities. When
you apply this option, it overrides the density value in the bar code field. When using this
option, set the density parameter in your bar code field to the default value. You can only use
this option once for each bar code field.
Bar codes produced using Option 50 may not be scannable. The additional character gap,
narrow space, and wide space parameters are valid only with Code 39 and Codabar. If these
parameters are specified for any other bar codes, they will be ignored by the printer. Do not use
Option 50 with fixed density bar codes.
Option 50 can be used with PDF417 bar codes for specific customer ratios. With PDF417 bar
codes, use only the narrow and wide parameters. The narrow parameter defines the individual
bar width in dots and the wide parameter is used to define the height of each individual stacked
bar code. Option 50 can also be used with Option 52 to further customize the dimensions of a
PDF417 bar code. Option 52 allows customization of the number of columns or number of rows
for the bar code.
Syntax R,50,narrow,wide,gap,nar_space,wide_space p
R1. R Field Option Header.
R2. 50 Option 50.
R3. narrow Dot width of the narrow element. Range: 1 to 99.
R4. wide Dot width of the wide element. Range: 1 to 99.
R5. gap Additional dot space between characters. Enter a value of 1 to 99. (Code 39 and Codabar only.)
R6. nar_space Additional dot width of the narrow bar code space. (Code 39 and Codabar only). Range: 1 to 99.
R7. wide_space Additional dot width of the wide bar code space. (Code 39 and Codabar only). Range: 1 to 99.
Example R,50,4,8,4,4,8 p
Creates a custom bar code density with a narrow element of 4 dots, a wide element of 8 dots, a
gap of 4 dots, 4 additional dot widths for the narrow bar code space, and 8 additional dot widths
for the wide bar code space (if this is a Code 39 or Codabar bar code).
DEFINING FIELD OPTIONS 4-5