Avery Dennison Sierra Sport2 9460 RCL Commands Programmer Manual User Manual
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2-4 Fields and Formats
Note the following items about bar codes:
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Codabar uses “A” as the start and stop character, unless you
include another start/stop character in the print batch data.
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Bar codes can accept 200 characters for their input data. To keep
the data from running off the label, use carriage return and/or new
line characters in the data.
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I 2 of 5 bar codes pad the field data to the left with a zero when you
give it an odd number of data characters.
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The printer calculates check digits and adds them to the bar code
data for all bar codes with system check digits.
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If you assign too few characters to bar codes that require a certain
number of characters, an error occurs. If you assign too many
characters, the printer truncates the data and an error occurs.
Code 128 Bar Code Fields
Code 128 bar codes use four characters to perform special functions.
To use the function characters in a bar code, imbed the corresponding
sequence (preceded by a tilde (~)) in the bar code’s data (you specify
the data with the ^P or ^R command). For example, suppose your
data is 1234. You might enter 123~2034 to use function 4.
Function 1 Char. Sets: A, B, C Enter: ~200
If ~200 occurs in position 1 or 2 of the data, the scanner treats the
data as fitting the UCC standard. If ~200 occurs in any other position,
the scanner treats it is a field separator.
Function 2 Char. Sets: A, B Enter: ~201
If the scanner reads ~201 anywhere in the data, it stores the data
temporarily and prefixes it to the data in the next Code 128 bar code it
reads.
Function 3 Char. Sets: A, B Enter: ~202
If the scanner reads ~202 anywhere in the data, it treats the entire bar
code as instructions to program the scanner.