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Specifications
Features
3/12/09 Xi4 User Guide P1009874-001
Zebra Programming Language (ZPL)
ZPL II features include:
Bar Codes
Types of bar codes include:
• Downloadable graphics, scalable and
bitmap fonts, and label formats
• Controlled via mainframe, mini-
computer, PC, portable data terminal
• Object copying between memory areas • Programmable quantity with print, pause,
and cut control
• (RAM, memory card, and internal Flash) • Communicates in printable ASCII
characters
• Code page 850 character set • Error-checking protocol
• Data compression • Status message to host upon request
• Automatic virtual input buffer
management
• Serialized fields
• Format inversion • In-spec OCR-A and OCR-B
• Mirror image printing • UPC/EAN
• Four-position field rotation
(0°, 90°, 180°, 270°)
• User-programmable password
•Slew command
• Bar code ratios—2:1, 7:3, 5:2, 3:1 • LOGMARS
• Codabar (supports ratios of 2:1 up to 3:1) • MaxiCode
•CODABLOCK •Micro PDF
•Code 11 •MSI
• Code 39 (supports ratios of 2:1 up to 3:1) • PDF-417 (2-dimensional bar code)
• Code 49 (two-dimensional bar code) • PLANET code
•Code 93 •Plessey
• Code 128 (with subsets A, B, and C and
UCC case codes)
•POSTNET
• Check digit calculation where applicable • QR-Code
• Data Matrix • RSS code
• EAN-8, EAN-13, EAN extensions • Standard 2 of 5
• ISBT-128 • TLC 39
• Industrial 2 of 5 • UPC-A, UPC-E, UPC extensions
• Interleaved 2 of 5 (supports ratios of 2:1
up to 3:1, Modulus 10 Check Digit)