Zebra Technologies APL-I User Manual

Commands
Program Mode Commands

14177L-003 

APL-I  Reference Guide

11/24/09

Purpose  To specify a Codabar bar code field.

c4,m

Based on testing, this command works the same on the Zebra printer with 

APL-I firmware as on the 3400D printer.

Things to be aware of:

•

The 

c4

 command has one argument, m for mode, which defaults to 0.

Default: m - 0
Values for m: m = 0

•

The Codabar bar code supports these modes:

m Codabar Mode
0 User provides start/stop codes, which are verified by printer.
1,x,y Printer provides start code x and stop code y, where x and y are values with 
ranges of A to D and a to d.

•

You can send the start/stop characters as part of the human readable field of the bar 
code or as a separate text field (print data). Characters sent down as printer data 
override start/stop characters defined by the bar code field.

Purpose  To specify a Code 11 bar code field.

c5,m

Based on testing, this command works the same on the Zebra printer with 

APL-I firmware as on the 3400D printer.

Things to be aware of:

•

The 

c5

 command has one argument, m for mode, which defaults to 0. 

Default: m = 0
Values for m: 

•

The Code 11 bar code supports these modes:

m Code 11 Mode
0 Printer provides two check digits.
1 Printer provides one check digit.
2 User provides two check digits, which are verified by the printer.
3 User provides one check digit, which is verified by the printer.