Avery Dennison 9406 System Administrator Guide - Manual (Page 17)

Determine Format Contents
Decide what you want to print on the supply. Information
should be in the form of text, bar codes, lines, boxes, or
graphics.
Each piece of information is called a field or an overlay. Here
are the field types and how each type might be used.
Text Fields
Text fields contain alphabetical, symbol, or numerical
characters. Here are some uses:
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Company name or
department number
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Serial number
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Shipping address
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Price
Non-Printable Text Fields
Non-printable text fields do not print. Use them if you want the
data entered in the batch, but you do not want to print it as
entered. For example, enter city, state, and zip code in three
non-printable fields. Merge non-printable fields to print as one
field.
Bar Code Fields
Select from 8 bar codes: UPC-A, UPC-E, I 2 of 5, Code 39,
Codabar, EAN-8, EAN-13, Code 128. Here are some uses:
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Item or serial number
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Merged information from multiple text fields
You can define up to 30
fields in a format. The
total can be any
combination of field
types.
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