Specifications

Chapter 3— Designing Bar Code Labels
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The next table describes each command in the string.
Label Format Editing Command Examples
Command Definition
<ESC>P;
Enters Program mode
E1;
Erases format 1
F1;
Creates format 1
L39;
Creates line field (temporary field)
D0;
Deletes field zero
B0;
Creates bar code field zero
D39;
Deletes the temporary line field
When numbering the fields in a format, it is important to remember to
give every field a different number. Never use a field number more than
once. You can have up to 200 fields numbering from 0 to 199. The
importance of field numbering comes into play when you are in Print
mode and are entering data into the label format. At this point, you can
only identify the fields by a number, not by the type of field.
Each bar code field can have an interpretive field associated with it. For
example, bar code field B33 would have an interpretive field I33. All
interpretive fields use up a field location, starting from the top of the field
directory; if B33 is the first bar code field with interpretive text, then field
I33 would use location 199. You can see how the printer uses the fields
internally by uploading the format and examining where the interpretives
appear. For help, see the Format, Transmit command in Chapter 7, “IPL
Command Reference.” If you need to use more fields than IPL can
accommodate in a single format (because of interpretive fields), you can
use pages to combine several formats on one label.
Also keep in mind that you enter data into fields according to their
numeric value if you use a <CR> to separate the data. In other words, the
first string of data you enter goes into the lowest numbered field, the
second string of data you enter goes into the next lowest numbered field,
and so on.