Chapter 7 — Commands
ESim for the PC4 and PF8 Printer Programmer’s Reference Manual 55
b - QR Code
Description: QR Code is a matrix symbology defined in AIM International
ITS/97-001.
Error Correction
Four levels of Reed-Solomon error correction:
•L = 7%
•M = 15%
•Q = 25%
•H = 30%
QR Code Model 1 and Model 2 Descriptions
Characteristics Model 1 Model 2
Model version Original Enhanced
Symbol size in cell
(increment of 4 cells)
21*21 to 73*73 1‘*21 to 177*177
1. Numeric data modes: Digits
0-9
Maximum is 1167
characters.
Maximum is
7089 characters.
2. Alphanumeric data mode:
Digits 0-9, upper case letters
A-Z, and 9 other characters
Maximum is 707
characters.
Maximum is
4296 characters.
3. 8-bit byte data mode: JIS 8-
bit character set (Latin and
Kana) in accordance with JIS
X 0201
Maximum is 486
characters.
Maximum is
2953 characters.
4. Kanji data mode: Shift JIS
X 0208
Maximum is 299
characters.
Maximum is
1817 characters.
5. Mixing mode: Mix of mode
1-4 above
N/A Applicable
Note: The maximum data length in ESIM is approximately 780
bytes.