A method is designed for printing on regular digital printers of a coding pattern consisting of code symbols. In the method, a character-based representation of the coding pattern is obtained, wherein the code symbols are represented by characters according to a character definition set. A definition identifier is gernerated to identify the character definition set. The definition identifier is specific to the morphology of the coding pattern or to the printing job. Finally, a print module is caused to print the coding pattern based on the character-based representation, the character definition set and the definition identifier.