Barcode & OCR Printing: Technical Reference Manual page 1 / 179 Barcode & OCR Printing Technical Reference Manual - ... Version: 1.51 Abstract This document contains platform-independent and solution-independent information about OCR text and Barcode printing on our devices, as well as general background information about PCL fonts and barcodes, and about the printer languages PCL and HP-GL/2. For each barcode symbology supported, important information about the symbology (attributes, encoding), the checksum algorithms, and the code construction procedure, is provided. Published by Ricoh Company Ltd. Barcode & OCR Printing: Technical Reference Manual page 2 / 179 C o n t e n t s 1 Introduction 9 1.1 TERMINOLOGY AND NOTATION .............................................................................................................................................9 1.2 TECHNICAL SUPPORT ..........................................................................................................................................................9 1.3 LIMITED WARRANTY ............................................................................................................................................................9 2 Fonts (General information) 11 2.1 PCL FONTS ..................................................................................................................................................................... 11 2.1.1 Font location ................................................................................................................................................................................. 11 2.1.2 Font characteristics ...................................................................................................................................................................... 11 2.1.3 Font selection methods ................................................................................................................................................................ 12 2.1.4 The device's PCL Font list ............................................................................................................................................................ 12 2.2 [SUPPORT ONLY] ........................................................................................................................................................ 12 2.3 [SUPPORT ONLY] ........................................................................................................................................................ 12 2.4 HDD FONTS / THE PRINTER HDD ...................................................................................................................................... 13 2.4.1 [SUPPORT ONLY] ....................................................................................................................................................................... 13 2.4.2 The device's HDD Directory list .................................................................................................................................................... 13 2.5 DIMM FONTS / THE FONT DIMM ....................................................................................................................................... 13 2.5.1 Our Font DIMM ............................................................................................................................................................................. 13 2.5.2 DIMM insertion procedure ............................................................................................................................................................ 13 2.5.3 [SUPPORT ONLY] ....................................................................................................................................................................... 14 2.6 SDCARD FONTS / FONT SDCARDS ..................................................................................................................................... 14 2.6.1 Our Font SDcard .......................................................................................................................................................................... 14 2.6.2 SDcard insertion procedure .......................................................................................................................................................... 14 2.6.3 [SUPPORT ONLY] ....................................................................................................................................................................... 14 2.7 [SUPPORT ONLY] ........................................................................................................................................................ 14 3 The Printer languages (General information) 15 3.1 PCL ............................................................................................................................................................................... 15 3.1.1 General information ...................................................................................................................................................................... 15 3.1.2 Selecting the font .......................................................................................................................................................................... 16 3.1.3 Drawing text ................................................................................................................................................................................. 17 3.1.4 Sizing text..................................................................................................................................................................................... 17 3.1.5 Orienting/Rotating text .................................................................................................................................................................. 17 3.1.6 Positioning text ............................................................................................................................................................................. 17 3.1.7 The complete command sequence ............................................................................................................................................... 18 3.2 HP-GL/2 ........................................................................................................................................................................ 18 3.2.1 General information ...................................................................................................................................................................... 18 3.2.2 Selecting the font .......................................................................................................................................................................... 20 3.2.3 Drawing text ................................................................................................................................................................................. 20 3.2.4 Sizing text..................................................................................................................................................................................... 21 3.2.5 Orienting/Rotating text .................................................................................................................................................................. 21 3.2.6 Positioning text ............................................................................................................................................................................. 22 3.2.7 The complete command sequence ............................................................................................................................................... 22 4 Barcodes (General information) 24 4.1 INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................................................................. 24 4.1.1 [SUPPORT ONLY] ....................................................................................................................................................................... 24 4.2 DEFINITIONS / TERMINOLOGY ............................................................................................................................................ 24 4.3 CHARACTERISTICS OF A SYMBOLOGY .................................................................................................................................. 25 4.4 ENCODING SCHEMES ........................................................................................................................................................ 26 4.5 [SUPPORT ONLY] ........................................................................................................................................................ 26 4.6 [SUPPORT ONLY] ........................................................................................................................................................ 26 4.7 ATTRIBUTES OF A BARCODE ............................................................................................................................................... 27 4.8 [SUPPORT ONLY] .......................................................................................................................................................