Datamax-O'Neil APEX Series Programmer’s Manual - Manual (Page 28)

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'M' --- MANUAL
If you specify AUTO you do not need to specify the character mode.
If you specify MANUAL you will need to specify the character mode.
7) 0x00(NULL)-0xFF - MSB for a message length parameter
8) 0x00(NULL)-0xFF - LSB for a message length parameter
Total Message Length = (MSB * 256) + LSB
9) '0'(0x30) - '4'(0x34) - Pixel multiplier. '2' - (default)
Multiplication factor = 2^provided value. For Example: '0' -> 2^0=1, '1' -> 2^1=2, '2' -> 2^2=4, '3' -> 2^3=8 and '4' ->
2^4=16
10) 'N', 'A', 'B' or 'K' - Character mode(for MANUAL mode only), where:
'N' --- Numeric
'A' --- Alphanumeric (default)
'B' --- Binary
'K' --- Kanji
11) Data string
Example: The following escape commands encode the data “12345678”. Due to space limitation CR LF are not shown
Escape Sequence:
<ESC> ‘Z’ ‘7’ ‘2’ ‘M’ ‘A’ <NUL> <FS> ‘2’ ‘h’ ‘t’ ‘t’ ‘p’ ‘:’ ‘/’ ‘/’ ‘w’ ‘w’ ‘w’ ‘.’ ‘d’ ‘a’ ‘t’ ‘a’ ‘m’ ‘a’ ‘x’ ‘–‘ ‘o’ ‘n’ ‘e’ ‘i’ ‘l’ ‘.’ ‘c’ ‘o’ ‘m’
Hexadecimal:
1
b 5
a 3
7 3
2 4
d 4
1 0 1
c 3
2 6
8 7
4 7
4 7
0 3
a 2
f 2
f 7
7 7
7 7
7 2
e 6
4 6
1 7
4 6
1 6
d 6
1 7
8 2
d 6
f 6
e 6
5 6
9 6
c 2
e 6
3 6
f 6
d
Decimal:
2
7 9
0 5
5 5
0 7
7 6
5 0 2
8 5
0
1
0
4 1
1
6 1
1
6 1
1
2
5
8 4
7 4
7
1
1
9 1
1
9 1
1
9
4
6
1
0
0
9
7
1
1
6
9
7
1
0
9
9
7
1
2
0
4
5
1
1
1 1
1
0 1
0
1 1
0
5 1
0
8
4
6 9
9
1
1
1 1
0
9
PDF 417 Specifications
Description Each PDF 417 symbol character consists of a stack of vertically aligned rows between 3 and 90. Each
row includes a start and a stop pattern, left and right row indicators and a maximum of 30 symbol
characters. The symbol shall include a quite zone on all four sides
Character set All ASCII and extended characters, 8-Bit binary data and up to 811,800 different character sets
Elements per
symbol Height: Variable (3 to 90 rows) and Width: Variable (90X to 583X)
Character/symbol 1850 text characters
Error correction 2 to 512
PDF417 Command Structure:
<ESC> – ‘z’ – ‘9’ – CM – SL – SW – SH – EW – EH – MSB – LSB – [User’s Data]
Parameters
CM: Compaction Mode. Select a mode to encode the user’s data