The message is that the printer refused to print the barcode. Most
likely due to a character that the barcode doesn't support. Datamatrix
promises to print any ASCII character. So somewhere the EBCDIC to ASCII
is not producing a valid ASCII character representation. IPDS is usually
a EBCDIC stream to the printer, but that depends on how your printer
definition is configured. In that case, printer should be doing whatever
character translation is necessary to produce the barcode. The printer
firmware is rasterizing the bitmap for the barcode and should know its
own EBDCIC to ASCII translation.
Examine the CCSID of your print file and see if that matches the CCSID
the printer expects. I'm guessing you are someplace where everything is
not 37.
-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Wim_Vandepoel@xxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 2:03 AM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: 2D DataMatrix Barcode Error
Hi All,
I am trying to print a 2D Datamatrix Barcode with an IPDS printer
(infoprint 1552).
The data to print consists of address pieces seperated by a pipe.
If I only use upper case or lower case, numbers and spaces, the barcode
prints out fine.
If I combine upper and lower, or if I use a pipe or other characters
like comma, dot, slash, ampersand...
I get the following error:
Message ID . . . . . . : PQT3665, Bar Code Specification Check
exception.
Message ID . . . . . . : PQT3630, Sense data X'040C0100 DE000001
00000000 D6810000 00000000 00000001' was received
Here is the DDS code:
A GLS8902 127A
A BARCODE(DATAMATRIX 1 +
A (*DATAMATRIX 36 36))
A POSITION(3.3 0.6)
We are at v5r3.
Any idea why I can not print those characters?
Could it be a translation error?
Best Regards
Wim
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