Datamax-O'Neil APEX Series Programmer’s Manual - Manual (Page 20)

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Interleaved 2 of 5 Specifications
Description
Each symbol starts with Leading Quiet Zone, followed with Start Symbol, Data Symbols, ending with
Stop Symbol and Trailing Quiet Zone
Character set numeric pairs
Elements per
symbol 10 (5 bars, 5 spaces)
Character density 1.11 CPI
Bar width 25mm
Characters per line 2 inch printer: 16 numeric (maximum), automatically centered
3 inch printer: 24 numeric (maximum), automatically centered
4 inch printer: 35 numeric (maximum), automatically centered
Example: The following escape sequence prints an Interleaved 2 of 5 barcode, encoding “12345678” with 10 mm high,
human readable.
Escape
Sequence: Esc Z 3 8 2 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 CR LF
Hexadecimal: 1B 5A 33 08 32 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 0D 0A
Decimal: 27 90 51 8 50 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 13 10
UPC/EAN/JAN Specifications
Description Each symbol starts with Leading Quiet Zone, followed with Left Guard Bars, Left Data Symbols,
Center Bar Pattern, Right Data Symbols, Check Character, ending with Right Guard Bars and
Trailing Quiet Zone.
The UPC, EAN/JAN-8, EAN/JAN-13 specifications comprise an internationally recognized format for
application identifiers. Unlike the UCC/EAN-128 specification, these identifiers are intended for point-
of-sale applications. Only recognized bodies of the UCC and EAN may assign application identifiers.
More information may be found at:
http://www.ean.be/ for the EAN and
http://www.uc-council.org/ for the UCC
Character set Numeric - fixed length
Elements per symbol 4 (2 bars, 2 spaces)
Character density 14.5 CPI
Bar width 0.25mm
Characters per line UPC-A: 11 - plus check digit (automatically centered)
UPC-E: 6 - plus check digit (automatically centered)
EAN/JAN-8: 7 - plus check digit (automatically centered)
EAN/JAN-13: 12 - plus check digit (automatically centered)
Example 1: The following escape sequence will print a UPC-A bar code with the following: human readable, 30 mm high,
containing “123456789012” where 2 is the check digit. Due to limited spacing CR LF are not shown at the end of this command.
Escape Sequence: ESC Z 4 12 240 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
Hexadecimal: 1B 5A 34 0C F0 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 30 31
Decimal: 27 90 52 12 240 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 48 49