Printek 4503 User Manual

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To print bar codes, the following sequences are used in bar code mode:

BEL

Sound the Bell.

ESC ESC n

Change Emulation Mode

ETX

ETX/ACK Software Handshake.

FF

Form Feed.

LF

Fractional Line Feed (to next line
boundary)

^BNxccc...c^G

Horizontal Bar Code.

^BN9xddddccc...c^G

Variable Width Horizontal Bar Code.

^Htt

Bar Code Height.

^Jttd

Relative Vertical Tab.

^Ttttd

Absolute Horizontal Tab.

^-

Bar Code Pass Terminator.

These bar code sequences are described in detail in the following sections.

All measurements in bar code mode are specified in tenths of an inch and/or dots.

Bar codes are printed with a graphics resolution of 144 dots per inch both horizontally
and vertically.

All references to tenths of an inch are in actuality 14/144's of an inch.

All references to dots are in actuality 1/144's of an inch.  The range of dots that may
be specified is 0 to 15.  This range is represented using hexadecimal convention.  The
ASCII characters '0' to '9' represent 0 to 9 dots, respectively.  The ASCII characters
'A' to 'F', and 'a' to 'f', represent 10 to 15 dots, respectively.