User guide

Bar Code Printing on the LA600

MultiPrinter

This chapter gives information on:

• Bar code styles supported and escape sequences that enable bar code

printing, Section 20.1

• Start or Stop Bar Codes (DECBAR) command, Section 20.2

• Select Bar Code Attributes (DECSBCA) command, Section 20.3

• The Active Position (AP) in different printer emulation modes and

implications for printing consecutive bar codes, Section 20.4 and

Section 20.5

• Bar code characteristics and their support by the LA600 MultiPrinter,

Section 20.6

• Particular characteristics of the bar code styles supported by the LA600

MultiPrinter, Section 20.7

20.1 Bar Codes Supported

Through the DECBAR and DECSBCA commands, the LA600 MultiPrinter

supports 15 bar code styles:

Code 39

Code 93

Code 128 (EAN 128)

Codabar a/t

Codabar b/n

Codabar c/*

Codabar d/e

EAN 8

EAN 13

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Bar Code Printing on the LA600 MultiPrinter 20–1