Brother PT-9700PC - Manual (Page 59)

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characters that can be entered may decrease, depending on the characters that are used.
2 When the symbol type is the structured carrier message, the service class, country
code and postal code can be specified separately from the normal data. Specify each
value, separated by a backslash and comma (\,), immediately before the normal data.
<postal_code>\,<country_code>\,<service_class>\,<normal_bar_code_data>
When “\,” is not used three times, the data is written as shown in the following
example.
Example <data1>\,<data2>\,<normal_bar_code_data>
⇒ Postal code = data1
⇒ Country code = data2
⇒ Service class = default value
If a value other than those listed is entered for a parameter, that parameter is set to its
default value.
Postal code
9 or less numerals, or 6 or
less alphanumeric characters Ignored when not structured carrier message.
Default value: 000000000
Country code
3 or less numerals
Ignored when not structured carrier message.
Default value: 000
Service class
3 or less numerals
Ignored when not structured carrier message.
Default value: 000
* Note:
If the postal code is specified as alphanumeric characters, characters other than
those listed below are invalid.
A~Z “ # $ % & ‘ ( ) * + , - . / 0~9 :
However, lowercase letters (a~z) are converted to the valid uppercase letters (A~Z).
④ \\\: End of bar code
There must be three backslashes at the end of 2D bar codes.