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BARMAG (BM)
Chapter 2 Program Instructions
Field of Application Statement specifying the magnification in regard of width of the bars in
a bar code.
Syntax BARMAG|BM
is the magnification in regard of width of the bars, which make
up the bar code.
Allowed input: Depends on type of bar code.
Default value: 2
Reset to default by: PRINTFEED execution.
Remarks The magnification only affects the bar code ratio (see BARRATIO), not the
height of the bars (see BARHEIGHT). For example, by default the BAR-
RATIO is 3:1 and the BARMAG is 2, which means that the wide bars will
be 6 dots wide and the narrow bars will be 2 dots wide (2 × 3:1 = 6:2).
The magnification also affects the interpretation in EAN and UPC bar codes,
since the interpretation is an integrated part of the EAN/UPC code.
BARMAG can be replaced by a parameter in the BARSET statement.
Example Programming a Code 39 bar code, selecting a barfont for all directions and
enabling the printing of the bar code interpretation:
10 PRPOS 30,400
20 DIR 1
30 ALIGN 7
40 BARTYPE "CODE39"
50 BARRATIO 2,1
60 BARHEIGHT 120
70 BARMAG 3
80 BARFONT "Swiss 721 BT"ON
90 PRBAR "ABC"
100 PRINTFEED
A more compact method is illustrated by the example for BARSET statement.
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