Avery Dennison 9406 System Administrator Guide - Manual (Page 65)

Adding Characters to Pad Fields (Option 30)
You can add characters to one side of a field to "pad" the field.
Padding lets you fill remaining spaces when the data does not
fill an entire field.
1. Define your text or bar code field on the Format Worksheet
as instructed in Chapter 2, "Designing a Format." Write V
in box T4 or B4 to ensure this is a variable length field. Do
not use this option to pad a UPC or EAN bar code.
2. Find Option 30 on the Format Worksheet. This option
defines a pad character for a field.
Make sure you write the pad character entry in the same
row as the field to be padded.
3. Decide whether to place pad characters on the Right side
or the Left side of the field. Write L or R in box R3, after 30.
4. In box R4, write the character to use as a pad character.
Place double quotes around the character, like this:
"0"
NOTE: Do not use ‘, ~, \, ", or _ as pad characters.
Check Chapter 12, "Quick Reference," or Appendix B,
"Extended Character Sets," to make sure the character is
printable in the font selected for this field.
An example use for padding is a variable length bar code that
you want to occupy a fixed amount of space on the supply. If
the maximum number of characters in the bar code is 15, but
the batch has only 10 characters, the padding option fills the
remainder of the field with pad characters.
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