Specifications

Chapter 3— Designing Bar Code Labels
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To position a field to print approximately 0.25 inch from the left side and
0.5 inch from the top of your label, the origin command is o51,102.
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HR Field
Second HR Field
*BCFIELD*
*BC FIELD*
D
A
B
C
A = o51, 102
B = o51, 203
C = o51, 305
D = o355, 102
Field positioning: This illustration shows the relative positions of four fields with
different origin points.
Note: If you are operating your printer in Emulation mode, the dot sizes
are doubled (101 dots per inch or 4 dots per mm), so the origin for 1 inch
from the top of the label and 0.5 inch from the left side is o25,51.
Rotating Fields
You can rotate any type of printable field in increments of 90 degrees
counterclockwise around the field origin. To position a rotated field, you
should keep in mind that the field origin remains on the corner where it
was before you rotated the field. If you rotate a field 90 degrees
counterclockwise, the origin that was at the upper left corner is now at the
lower left corner. Use the Field Direction command fn to define the field
rotation. See Chapter 7, “IPL Command Reference,” for more
information.
• To rotate a field 90 degrees, you must position the lower left corner of
the rotated field.
• To rotate a field 180 degrees, you must position the lower right corner
of the rotated field.
• To rotate a field 270 degrees, you must position the upper right corner
of the rotated field.