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BARRATIO (BR)
Chapter 2 Program Instructions
Field of Application Statement specifying the ratio between the wide and the narrow bars in
a bar code.
Syntax BARRATIO|BR,
1 2
1
2
Default value:
is the thickness of the wide bars relative to the narrow bars.
is the thickness of the narrow bars relative to the wide bars.
3:1
Reset to default by: PRINTFEED execution.
Remarks This statement specifies the ratio between the wide and the narrow bars in a
bar code in relative terms. To decide the width of the bars in absolute terms
(i.e. number of dots), the ratio must be multiplied by the BARMAG value.
Example:
The default BARRATIO is 3:1 and the default BARMAG is 2.
(3:1) × 2 = 6:2
i.e. the wide bars are 6 dots wide and the narrow bars are 2 dots wide.
Note that certain bar codes have a fixed ratio, e.g. EAN and UPC codes. In
those cases, any BARRATIO statement will be ignored. Refer to the chapter
“Bar Codes” later in this manual.
BARRATIO can be replaced by two parameters 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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