Microcom 412 - Manual (Page 80)

Bar Codes Chapter 8
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Codabar (Rationalized Codabar), TCI=42
The Codabar bar code is typically used to identify air shipping containers, library items and
blood information. It can encode the characters 0 through 9, -$:.+ABCD and four different
start/stop characters.
Code 93, TCI=43
Code 93 is a high density, full alphanumeric, variable length, bar code. Through the use of
reserved shift characters, it can encode all of the first 128 ASCII characters.
AS-10, TCI=44
AS-10 is not widely used. It is variable length and encodes the numeric values 1234567890
only.
PDF-417, TCI=46
PDF-417 is a two dimensional bar code.
Enter the following command before the label format:
:Text^[
number_of_rows<CR>
number_of_columns<CR>
rotation<CR>
;in degrees (0, 90, 180, 270 only)
ECC_percent<CR> ;error correction parameter
ECC_level<CR> ;level of error correction
Aspect_ratio<CR> ;must be in format of, ex., 2:3
(Where "Text" is the data to be encoded in the PDF-417 bar code. It may contain carriage
returns and other control codes. It must be terminated by the characters "^[" (without quotes)
which will not be printed.)
Enter a normal label format with a field specifying a TCI of 46 and a CC of 1.
The string associated with the field described above need contain only 1 character. It may be
any printable character, and is used only as a placeholder. This character is not printed.
UCC/EAN-128, TCI=50 (TCI=51 is the text version)
UCC/EAN-128 bar codes are actually Code 128 bar codes that have a specific data format
that contains multiple data subfields. Subfields are identified by application identifiers as
specified in UCC/EAN-128 Application Identifier Standard (January 1993, revised and
reprinted July 1995).
The UCC/EAN-128 bar code field has a TCI of 50. The CGN field is ignored.
The UCC/EAN-128 text field has a TCI of 51. The CGN selects the desired resident font for
printing the text string. In other words, use the same CGN that would be used if printing the
string with a regular resident font using a TCI of 1.
Data strings can contain one or more substrings appended onto one line. Each substring can
consists of a 2-, 3-, or 4-digit Application Identifier immediately followed by a data string
meeting the formatting requirements for that Application Identifier.