Brother BT-1000 User Manual

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Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1 HOW TO INSTALL THE BT-1000 BROTHER BARCODE FONT

UPGRADE ON BROTHER PRINTER...........................................................4

1 WINDOWS AND WINDOWS

2 OTHER OPERATING SYSTEMS........................................................... 5

CHAPTER 2 BT-1000 BARCODE FONT SOLUTIONS MANUAL ...............6

1 CODE 128...............................................................................................6

1.1 ABOUT CODE 128.......................................................................................6

1.2 CHOOSING THE RIGHT FONT AND SIZE ......................................................... 6

1.3 PCL ESCAPE SEQUENCES .......................................................................... 7

1.4 CODE 128 FONT PRODUCT CHARACTER SET................................................ 7

SYSTEMS (WINDOWS® 95/98/ME, WINDOWS NT® 4.0

2000/XP)...........................................................................4

2 CODE 39...............................................................................................10

2.1 ABOUT CODE 39.......................................................................................10

2.2 WHAT’S IN IT?........................................................................................... 10

2.3 CHOOSING THE RIGHT FONT...................................................................... 11

2.4 THE PCL ESCAPE SEQUENCES ................................................................. 11

2.5 CODE 39 FONT PRODUCT CHARACTER SET ............................................... 12

3 INTERLEAVED 2OF5........................................................................... 15

3.1 ABOUT INTERLEAVED 2 OF 5...................................................................... 15

3.2 PCL ESCAPE SEQUENCES ........................................................................ 15

3.3 I2OF5 FONT PRODUCT CHARACTER SET.................................................... 16

4 UPC / EAN CODE................................................................................. 18

4.1 ABOUT THE UPC / EAN CODE................................................................... 18

4.2 TYPES OF UPC SYMBOLS ......................................................................... 19

4.2.1 UPC-A.............................................................................................. 19

4.2.2 UPC-E.............................................................................................. 20

4.3 PCL ESCAPE SEQUENCES ........................................................................ 21

5 CODABAR............................................................................................21

5.1 ABOUT CODABAR...................................................................................... 21

5.2 PCL ESCAPE SEQUENCES ........................................................................ 22

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TrueType is a trademark of Apple Computer, Inc. Microsoft, MS-DOS, Windows and Windows NT are registered trademarks of

Microsoft Corporation in the U.S. and other countries. PostScript is a registered trademark of Adobe Syst em s I ncorporated. All other terms and brand and product names m entioned in this User’s Guide are

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Compilation and Publication Notice

Under the supervision of Brother Industr ies Lt d. , this manual has been compiled and published, covering the latest product’s descriptions and specifications.

The contents of this manual and the specifications of t his pr oduct are subject to change without notice.

Brother reserves the right to m ake changes wit hout notice in the specifications and materials contained herein and shall not be responsible for any damages ( including consequential) caused by reliance on the materials presented, including but not limited to typographical and other err or s r elating to the publication.

Chapter 1 How to install the BT-1000 Brother Barcode Font Upgrade on Brother Printer

Note: In order to activate the BT-1000, you must use the PCL emulation mode.

1 Windows® Systems

(Windows 2000/XP)

To activate the barcode fonts, you must send an activation key to t he printer you wish to upgrade. To send the activation key, follow the steps below:

a. You must have already installed the corresponding Windows

the PC you wish to upgrade from. Use the CD-RO M that was supplied with the

printer to install a printer dr iver . b. Insert the BT-1000 CD-ROM int o your CD-ROM drive. c. Click AddFont in the AddFont folder in the CD-ROM. d. A screen similar to the one below appears:

95/98/Me, Windows NT® 4.0 and Windows®

printer driver onto

e. Select the appropriate printer. Depending on your printer and PC configuration,

the display will vary.

f. Click the OK button to send the font activation key. The pr int er will receive the

activation key. Wait at least 30 seconds. g. Switch the printer off and then on. h. Print, PRINT FONTS by using the control panel. You can check t he newly

activated fonts.

2 Other Operating Systems

If you are using another operating system such as Linux, Unix, O S/ 2, etc, follow the steps below:

a. Insert the BT-1000 CD-ROM int o your CD-ROM drive. b. Select the AddFont.bin file in the Others folder in the CD-ROM and send it t o

the printer. The printer will receive t he activation key. Wait at least 30 seconds. c. Swit ch t he pr inter off and then on. d. Print, PRINT FONTS by using the control panel. You can check t he newly

activated fonts.

Chapter 2 BT-1000 Barcode Font Solutions Manual

1 Code 128

1.1 About Code 128

Introduced in 1981, Code 128 bar codes are used extensively by the shipping industry, as well as for inventory, ID, and t r acking purposes. It is often selected over Code 39 when space is at a premium and because it offers a much lar ger selection of characters. The Code 128 standard is maintained by AI M (Automatic Identification Manufacturers).

Code 128 provides a very dense numeric-only bar code, and a dense alphanumeric bar code. This is a continuous code, of variable length, bi-dir ect ional and self checking. It is designed to encode all 128 ASCII characters , and is optimized to compress the bar code. It will use the least amount of space for data of 6 characters or more of any 1-D symbol.

The character set includes the lower 128 ASCII charact ers with upper and lowercase letters, numbers, punctuation, and cont rol codes. A check digit, determined by Modulus 103, is placed at the end of the message before the end character, for data integrity purposes. The symbol can be as long as necessary to store the encoded data.

1.2 Choosing the Right Font and Size

BT-1000 includes three different fonts used to create bar code symbols of different densities. Changing fonts alters the width of a bar code without affecting the symbol’s height. BT-1000 supports Code set A, Code set B and Code set C.

Like any TrueType or Type 1 font, the bar code fonts can be scaled to any size. Any of the fonts formatted at 24 or 36 points will create bar codes 1/3 (8.5mm) or ½ (12.7mm) inches tall, respectively. Print samples of your desired string in a number of the fonts to verify that it can be scanned when printed on your particular printer.

1.3 PCL Escape Sequences

To print from Unix or DOS systems you must send the appropriate PCL escape sequences to print the bar code font you require. Exam ple escape sequences ar e shown below:

Code128TT-Regular : esc(12Yesc(s1p#v0s0b28685T Code128-NarrowTT-Regular : esc(12Yesc(s1p#v0s0b28686T Code128-WideTT-Regular : esc(12Yesc(s1p#v0s0b28687T (#: point size 0.25 – 999.75)

Replace the hash (#) with the relevant point size. For exam ple, to print a bar code that is one inch (25.4 mm) high, substitute ‘#’ with ‘72’. To print a bar code half and inch (12.7 mm) high, use 36.

To switch back to printing normal fonts in the t ypest y le you expect , print the PCL font list from the printer contr ol panel, and r efer to the escape sequence shown on the print out.

1.4 Code 128 Font Product Character Set

ASCII value Code Set A Code Set B Code Set C

174 SP SP 00

33 ! ! 01 34 “ “ 02 35 # # 03 36 $ $ 04 37 % % 05 38 & & 06 39 ‘ ‘ 07 40 ( ( 08 41 ) ) 09 42 * * 10 43 + + 11 44 , , 12 45 - - 13 46 . . 14 47 / / 15 48 0 0 16 49 1 1 17 50 2 2 18 51 3 3 19 52 4 4 20 53 5 5 21 54 6 6 22 55 7 7 23 56 8 8 24 57 9 9 25 58 : : 26

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