print bar codes

[Jim Asman]

--------------- Original Message ---------------
At 01:04P Mon Sep 11 2006, Richard D. Williams wrote:

> Linux w FP 5.14
> HP-4000 printer
> 
> Looking for suggestions.  Does anyone have any easy methods of printing 
> bar codes on filepro reports and forms.  I have been using unibar and 
> find it to be cumbersome.  The unibar program is a filter.
> 
> syntax in filepro config is:
> printer1=richard,barcode,/appl/unibar/bzp -CFGrdw.cfg | lp -s -drichard
> 
> I find that this works as well:
> y="/appl/unibar/bzp -CFGrdw.cfg |";f=y<@PD;printer (f)
> 
> I have used kyocera printers that use a simple printer code to turn on 
> barcode.  The printer then makes the barcode out of the following data 
> and a print code is use to turn it off.  The unibar program works in a 
> similar way, but I must send the print job through the filter.

Use a soft font. Download a soft font to the printer, enable it as
the secondary font, and switch to the secondary for the barcode,
and then back to the primary when the barcode is done. If you can get
the font through to the printer, the it is just like any other fp form
or report. Nothing complicated at all. You can buy flash memory for the
4000 and have the font permanently reside in the printer.

What barcode symbology are you using? You may have to calculate a checksum
in processing. I sell some barcode fonts for use with filePro, and it 
works very well. There is a demo 3of9 font if you want to experiment with
it.


Jim 
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