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Microcom 400 User Manual

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Designing Labels Using LDS

Chapter 4

400 Operators Manual

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CGN

CHARACTER GENERATOR NUMBER
The following is a list of the character sets and specifications for the embedded fonts.

Bitmapped Font Descriptions

CGN

Point

Height

Width

Font Type

Sample

1

6

Dixon Bold

6pt ABCDEFG1234567890abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz!@#$%^&*(

2

8

Dixon Normal

8pt ABCDEFG1234567890abcdefg

3

10

Dixon Normal

10pt ABCDEFG1234567890abcdefg

4

12

Dixon Normal

12pt ABCDEF123456789abcdef

5

14

Dixon Normal

14pt ABCDE1234567abcde

*6

18

Dixon Normal

18pt ABCDE1234567

7

8

OCR-A

8

8

OCR-B

* This font is only available in 0 and 180 degree rotations

Table 5

Table 5 constitutes the bar codes available on the 400 printer. Some bar codes offer different
ratios to accommodate different applications. See Section 7.1 for more information on
designing with bar codes.

Bar Code Symbologies

Bar code

CGN

Ratio

Height

Spacing

FO

Code 3 of 9

I 2 of 5

*UPC/EAN
*UPC Readable
*Code 128

*UCC/EAN-128

Codabar

Code 93
AS-10
MSI (Plessy)

2
3
5
8
2
3
5
-
-
-
2
3
-
-
-

2:1
3:1
5:2
8:3
2:1
3:1
5:2
40%
40%
40%
2:1
3:1
2:1
2:1
1:1

1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1

2
2
2
3
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-

0123
0123
0123
0123
0123
0123
0123
0123
0123
0123
0123
0123
0123
0123
0123

* These bar codes must be multiplied by 2 for a 80% ratio.

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