User guide

Bar Code Printing on the LA600 MultiPrinter
20.3 Select Bar Code Attributes (DECSBCA)
Table 20–1 Bar Code Attributes
Parameter Description Supported Values
Ps1 Bar code endcoding 0, 2, or none: Code 39
1: Interleaved 2 of 5
4: EAN 8
5: EAN 13
7: Codabar a/t
8: Codabar b/n
9: Codabar c/*
10: Codabar d/e
11: UPC-A
12: UPC-E
13: POSTNET
14: Industrial 2 of 5
15: Code 93
16: MSI mod 10/10
17: Code 128 (EAN 128)
Pn2 Width of narrow bars and spaces See Table 20–2.
Pn3 Quiet zone width 180 decipoints
Pn4 Width of wide bars and spaces See Table 20–2.
Pn5 (Parameter is ignored.)
Pn6 Height of bars in decipoints Minimum= 60
Maximum = 2400
Default = 120
1
Pn7 (Parameter is ignored; the
LA600 does not support control
characters in bar codes).
Ps8 Orientation 0, 1, or none: Horizontal symbol
(portrait bars, read left to right)
3: Vertical symbol (90" rotation;
landscape bars, read bottom to top)
Parameter ignored for bar code
styles EAN 8, EAN 13, UPC A,
UPC E, and POSTNET.
Ps9 Human-readable characters
(HRC)
0, 1, or none: No HRC
2,3 or 4: Print HRC, OCR-B font
Parameter ignored for POSTNET.
1
For EAN and UPC bar code styles, the default=180 when bar code symbols are coded with add-on
two and add-on five digits. For details see the EAN and UPC sections in Section 20.7.
Table 20–2 shows the settings, in decipoints, that the LA600 MultiPrinter
supports for wide and narrow bars of both landscape and portrait bar code
orientations.
Bar Code Printing on the LA600 MultiPrinter 20–3