I am looking for some direction here, as I seem to be missing something. I have the following ZPL that is loaded into a ZD620:
^XA
^LH0,0^LRN^FT100,50,0^A0N,30,30^FN1^FDCORELIMS.BARCODE^FS
^FO471,27^BQN,1,3^FDQA,^FN1^FS
^FT381,188^A0N,50,68^FD^FN1^FS
^XZ
I use an off-the-shelf software that turns CORELIMS.BARCODE into the entity's barcode value to be encoded. That works fine. What is not happening, when the Generated QR Code is scanned, the output is always missing the first 3 characters. What should show up is something like: 5BX10, what I get is: 10.
During my troubleshooting I used the following code and I receive the full string:
^XA
^LH0,0^LRN^FT100,50,0^A0N,30,30^FN1^FDCORELIMS.BARCODE^FS
^FO471,27^BQN,1,3^FDQA,5BX10^FS
^FT381,188^A0N,50,68^FD^FN1^FS
^XZ
All other fields using the ^FN1 command (including this one: ^FT381,188^A0N,50,68^FD^FN1^FS) output the correct value, just not the generated QR code.
I found similar questions, however, none of which are using a ^FN command, and their suggestions do not work for my situation. Those links are listed here:
Print ZPLII QR to open url
ZPL QR code not printing what is in the string
Thanks for help and I would really like to learn what I am doing wrong.
The ^FNx commands are used with stored formats; they cannot be used in a "one-off" label format like you are showing. I am traveling and don't have a zebra printer to test this but basically you need to define the label format "template" using ^DF like:
^XA
^DFR:MYFORMAT.ZPL^FS
^LH0,0^LRN^FT100,50,0^A0N,30,30
^FO471,27^BQN,1,3^FN1^FS
^FT381,188^A0N,50,68^FN1^FS
^XZ
That stores the format as R:MYFORMAT.ZPL. Then you use ^XF to recall the format and provide the values for the ^FNx:
^XA
^XFR:MYFORMAT.ZPL^FS
^FN1^FDQA,CORELIMS.BARCODE^FS
^XZ
Note that you include the extra data params required by ^BQ in the ^FD string.
Hope that helps.
Related
I'm trying to code a GS1 compliant QR code in ZPL which will inlcude a number of application identifiers. I don't understand how to embed the FNC1 character within the ^FD string when using ^BQ to create a 2d code.
Below is my first attempt. When creating a GS1-128 barcode, I would use the >8 character to denote variable length fields.
^FX Test^FS
^XA^MCY^XZ
^XA^LH0,65
^LH0,0^FS
^BQN,2,10^FD>;>83018099999>82411184174>810MFATA00001>891EA^FS
^PQ1,0,0,N
^XZ
This creates a 2d barcode that returns the following string when scanned, but is not recoginised as GS1 compliant.
11611193018099999>82411184174>810MFATA00001>891EA
How do I configure the ^FD field to enable the FNC1 character?
QR ZPL Issues
See a recent answer I had for QR codes here:
Print ZPLII QR to open url
You are missing some of the parameters for the ^BQ and ^FD commands.
GS1 QR Issues
Research I've done indicates that the GS1 QR code is quite proprietary, and does not seem to be easily generated with ZPL. However, you can use a Data Matrix barcode quite easily.
Looks like you are trying to create a code with the following Application Identifiers and values:
30: Variable Count of Items: 18099999
241: Variable Customer Part Number: 1184174
10: Variable Batch/Lot Number: MFATA00001
91: Variable Company Internal: EA
GTIN 01 seems to be required and is missing. I've added a temporary GTIN string. Customer part number 241 seems to be local only, and may not validate in some applications which validate global requirements.
Full Barcode String.
^FD_10112345678901234_110MFATA00001_13018099999_12411184174_191EA^FS
Full ZPL for sample label
^XA
^FO10,10
^BXN,9,200,40,40,,_
^FD_10112345678901234_110MFATA00001_13018099999_12411184174_191EA^FS
^XZ
Hope that helps.
https://www.gs1.org/docs/barcodes/GSCN_16_477_FNC1.pdf
https://www.zebra.com/us/en/support-downloads/knowledge-articles/creating-gs1-barcodes-with-zebra-printers-for-data-matrix-and-code-128-using-zpl.html
EdHayes3's answer is just great.
As specified by Zebra in a ^BX the escape character is the underscore and the subsequent number defines what kind of FNC is used.
_1 - > FNC1
_2 - > FNC2
_3 - > FNC3
FNC4 is not supported according to how I understand the Zebra documentation.
The only thing I do not entirely agree with is escaping every GS1 AI since the most common ones except Lot/Batch number have a fixed length.
In other words, I do not think that it is necessary to escape for example the GTIN. Though, you probably have to keep in mind to pad it up with leading zeros in case of GTIN-12 or GTIN-13.
The appearance of "textparcali" in RStudio Source Editor was as follows.
In textparcali (tbl_df), I ran the following code to delete single strings.
textparcali$word<-gsub("\\W*\\b\\w\\b\\W*",'', textparcali$word)
But the deletion was interesting. You can see the picture below. Please note lines 67 and 50.
Everything was fine for line 50 and lines like that. However, this was not the case for line 67 (and I think there are others like it).
I focused on one line(67) to understand why you deleted it wrong. I've already seen what it says on this line in the editor. But I also wanted to look at the console. I wrote the following code to the console.
textparcali$word[67]
The word on line 67 looks different in the console. The value that doesn't appear when you make a copy paste but surprisingly appears on the console:
The reason I put it as a picture is because this character disappears after the copy-paste command.
You can download the file containing this character from the link below. However, you should open it with Notepad ++.
Character.txt
Gsub did his job right. How is that possible? What's the name of this character? When I try to write code that destroys this character, the " sign changes and does not delete.
textparcali$word<-gsub('[[:punct:]]+',' ',textparcali$word) command also does not work.
What is the explanation of my experience? I do not know. Is there a way to destroy this character? What caused this? I ve asked a lot.
Thank you all.
(I apologize for the bad scribbles in the pictures.)
I found the surprise character.
Above Right, Combining Dot ͘ ͘
The following is the code required to eliminate this character.
c<-"surprise character"
c
[1] "\u0358"
textparcali$word<-gsub("\u0358","",textparcali$word,ignore.case = FALSE)
textparcali$word<-gsub("\u307","",textparcali$word,ignore.case = FALSE)
Code 307 did the job for me. However, you should determine what the actual code is. If not, your character code may be incorrect.
More detailed information can be found in the links below.
https://gist.github.com/ngs/2782436
https://www.charbase.com/0358-unicode-combining-dot-above-right
Thanks a lot!
I'm trying to show some data in a GS1 Datamatrix which has field separators (FNC1,GS) pass within the variable to a zpl template.
Originally, in ZebraDesigner I couldn't get zpl to allow me to pass the separators within the parameter/variable. The separators would only show as text within the data, not as control characters for the scanner. (I was able to pass the separators as Fix Data, however it needs to work with a parameter).
Alternatively, I was hoping to edit the zpl and concatenate the control characters and QR values into one printed data for the Datamatrix.
This is zpl using one variable QRCode: (This works but not with passed separators)
^BY208,208^FT448,1123^BXN,8,200,0,0,1,~
^FH\^FN18^FDQRCode^FS
This is using fixed data where FNC1 is \7E and GS is \1D: (This works but doesn't use variables/parameters)
^BY208,208^FT448,1123^BXN,8,200,0,0,1,~
^FH\^FD\7E188text234567890\1Dmoretext^FS
This is my attempt to concat the separators and variables QRData1...:
^BY208,208^FT448,1123^BXN,8,200,0,0,1,~
^FH\^FD\7E^FN18^FDQRData1^FN22^FD\1D^FDQRData2^FD\1D^FN23^FDQRData3^FS
Unfortunately, the QR code only shows the value for the last var QRData3
Escape your field seperator hex codes with an _ (underscore), not with a backslash.
And use only one ^FD command like in your second example.
For reference see the pages of the commands ^FD, ^FH and ^BX in the Zebra ZPL II Programming Giude
As the OP found out, the field seperator _d029 worked for him! This is the hex value (0xD029) for the control character.
More information can be found here:
Encode GS,RS, and EOT for Code 128 and PDF417
GS is ~029
RS is ~030
EOT is ~004
Example:
[)><RS>06<GS>13V12GG7<GS>1P029-102489-157<GS>NC-411-661478-1<RS><EOT>
Enter the data as:
[)>~03006~d02913V12GG7~0291P029-102489-157~029NC-411-661478-1~030~004
Encode GS,RS, and EOT for Data Matrix, Aztec, and QR Code
GS is ~d029
RS is ~d030
EOT is ~d004
Example:
[)><RS>06<GS>13V12GG7<GS>1P029-102489-157<GS>NC-411-661478-1<RS><EOT>
Enter the data as:
[)>~d03006~d02913V12GG7~d0291P029-102489-157~d029NC-411-661478-1~d030~d004
Hi guys I encrypted school project but my AES saved txt has been deleted, I pictured it before and I filled a new file. But new AES key file is not equal to the typed in jpeg file. Which character is wrong I couldn't find it. Could you please help me.
Pic : https://i.stack.imgur.com/pAXzl.jpg
Text file : http://textuploader.com/dfop6
If you directly convert bytes with any value to Unicode you may lose information because some bytes will not correspond to a Unicode character, a whitespace character or other information that cannot be easily distinguished in printed out form.
Of course there may be ways to brute force your way out of this, but this could easily result in very complex code and possibly near infinite running time. Better start over, and if you want to use screen shots or similar printed text: base 64 or hex encode your results; those can be easily converted back.
I'm trying to print a Code 128 (Subset A?) barcode to a Zebra label printer. It looks to be printing, and can be scanned by ZXing barcode scanner on my phone, but when using a barcode scanner, it won't read.
Generating the same barcode using MPDF (type="C128A"), generates a barcode with different bars that the barcode scanner we're using does read.
Here's my ZPL: (ZPL Output)
^XA
^BY4,2,164^FT70,330^BCN,,Y,N,Y,N
^FD>9171716171724161925^FS
^XZ
And the equivalent barcode tag used in mPDF: (mPDF Output)
<barcode code="110118039" type="C128A" size="1.5"/>
Any ideas what I'm doing differently between the two would be greatly appreciated.
Looks like the issue was scanner configuration at the user end. Despite the differences in bars, both of the above are actually reading correctly.
I noticed a few problems
You have a ">" in your ZPL within the FD field.
The data you have encoded is not the exact number you are trying to get a barcode for. I wonder how you got what you got, and how it's generating the desired number.
I see you are using the UCC Check Digit = Y parameter. Default is N. You probably don't need this parameter.
Proper ZPL:
^XA
^FO100,100^BY3
^BCN,100,Y,N,N
^FD110118039^FS
^XZ