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
1WINDOWS®SYSTEMS (WINDOWS®95/98/ME, WINDOWS NT®4.0
AND WINDOWS®2000/XP)...........................................................................4
2OTHER OPERATING SYSTEMS...........................................................5
CHAPTER 2 BT-1000 BARCODE FONT SOLUTIONS MANUAL ...............6
1CODE 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
2CODE 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
3INTERLEAVED 2OF5...........................................................................15
3.1 ABOUT INTERLEAVED 2 OF 5...................................................................... 15
3.2 PCL ESCAPE SEQUENCES ........................................................................ 15
3.3 I2OF5 FONT PRODUCT CHARACTER SET.................................................... 16
4UPC / 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
5CODABAR............................................................................................21
5.1 ABOUT CODABAR...................................................................................... 21
5.2 PCL ESCAPE SEQUENCES ........................................................................ 22

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©2002 Brother Industries, Ltd.

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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®95/98/Me,Windows NT®4.0 and Windows®
2000/XP)
To activate the barcode fonts, you must send an activation key to the printer you
wish to upgrade. To send the activation key, follow the steps below:
a. You must have already installed the corresponding Windows®printer driver onto
the PC you wish to upgrade from. Use the CD-ROM that was supplied with the
printer to install a printer driver.
b. Insert the BT-1000 CD-ROM into your CD-ROM drive.
c. Click AddFont in the AddFont folder in the CD-ROM.
d. A screen similar to the one below appears:
e. Select the appropriate printer. Depending on your printer and PC configuration,
the display will vary.

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f. Click the OK button to send the font activation key. The printer 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 the newly
activated fonts.
2 Other Operating Systems
If you are using another operating system such as Linux, Unix, OS/2, etc, follow the
steps below:
a. Insert the BT-1000 CD-ROM into your CD-ROM drive.
b. Select the AddFont.bin file in the Others folder in the CD-ROM and send it to
the printer. The printer will receive the activation key. Wait at least 30 seconds.
c. Switch the printer off and then on.
d. Print, PRINT FONTS by using the control panel. You can check the newly
activated fonts.

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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 tracking purposes. It is often selected over
Code 39 when space is at a premium and because it offers a much larger selection
of characters. The Code 128 standard is maintained by AIM (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-directional 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 characters with upper and lowercase
letters, numbers, punctuation, and control 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.

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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. Example escape sequences are
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 example, 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 typestyle you expect, print the PCL font
list from the printer control panel, and refer 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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ASCII value Code Set A Code Set B Code Set C
59 ; ; 27
60 < < 28
61 = = 29
62 > > 30
63 ? ? 31
64 @ @ 32
65 A A 33
66 B B 34
67 C C 35
68 D D 36
69 E E 37
70 F F 38
71 G G 39
72 H H 40
73 I I 41
74 J J 42
75 K K 43
76 L L 44
77 M M 45
78 N N 46
79 O O 47
80 P P 48
81 Q Q 49
82 R R 50
83 S S 51
84 T T 52
85 U U 53
86 V V 54
87 W W 55
88 X X 56
89 Y Y 57
90 Z Z 58
91 [ [ 59
92 \ \ 60
93 ] ] 61
94 ^ ^ 62
95 _ _ 63
96 NUL ‘ 64
97 SOH a 65
98 STX b 66
99 ETX c 67
100 EOT d 68
101 ENQ e 69
102 ACK f 70
103 BEL g 71
104 BS h 72
105 HT i 73
106 LF j 74
107 VT k 75

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ASCII value Code Set A Code Set B Code Set C
108 FF l 76
109 CR m 77
110 SOH n 78
111 SI o 79
112 DLE p 80
113 DC1 q 81
114 DC2 r 82
115 DC3 s 83
116 DC4 t 84
117 NAK u 85
118 SYN v 86
119 ETB w 87
120 CAN x 88
121 EM y 89
122 SUB z 90
123 ESC { 91
124 FS | 92
125 GS } 93
165 RS ~ 94
166 US DEL 95
167 FNC 3 FNC 3 96
168 FNC 2 FNC 2 97
169 SHIFT SHIFT 98
170 CODE C CODE C 99
171 CODE B FNC 4 CODE B (100)
172 FNC 4 CODE A CODE A (101)
173 FNC 1 FNC 1 FNC 1 (102)
161 START A START A START A (103)
162 START B START B START B (104)
163 START C START C START C (105)
164 STOP STOP STOP

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2 Code 39
2.1 About Code 39
Code 39 was the first alphanumeric bar code developed and is the most widely used.
Also known as Code USD-3 or Code 3/9, Code 39 is widely used in many industries
and is the standard for many government bar code specifications, including the U.S.
Department of Defense. Code 39 is defined in American National Standards Institute
(ANSI) standard MH10.8M-1983.
Code 39 is often used for identification, inventory, and work-in-process tracking
because the character set is alphanumeric, the input string length is variable
(although more than 25 characters is hard to accommodate), and the symbol itself
can vary in height and width. It is bi-directional, includes a checksum option, and is
discreet.
BT-1000 includes eight fonts and switching between them changes the bar code’s
width and density without changing its height.
2.2 What’s in it?
Code 39 is an alphanumeric bar code that can be as long as necessary to store
encoded data. Designed to encode 26 uppercase letters, 10 digits and 7 special
characters, the Code 39 character set includes the digits 0-9, the letters A-Z (upper
case only), and the following symbols: space, minus (-), plus (+), full stop (.), dollar
sign ($), slash (/), and percent (%). It can be extended to code all 128 ASCII
characters by using a two character coding scheme. Extended characters are
encoded by a pair of normal Code 39 characters; for example, a lower case 'a' (not
part of the standard Code 39 character set) can be encoded by the pair '+A'. A
carriage return control code can be encoded by the pair '$M'.
The symbol includes a quiet zone, the start character "*", the encoded data, the stop
character "*", and a trailing quiet zone. The asterisk in code 39 is used as the start
and stop bar. 5 bars and 4 spaces for a total of 9 elements represent each character.
Each bar or space is either "wide" or "narrow" and 3 out of the 9 elements are
always wide. That is what gives the code its other name - Code 3 of 9. Of the 9
elements, 3 are large and 6 are narrow. Characters are separated by an inter-
character gap the same width as a narrow bar. The ratio of wide: narrow bar width
may be in the range of 1.8 to 3.4. Bar codes with a narrow bar width of less than
0.020 inches (0.508mm) should have a ratio of at least 2.5. A ratio of 3.0 is
recommended. Every Code 39 bar code should be preceded and followed by a quiet
zone the width of at least 10 narrow bars.