print bar codes

[Dan Snyder]

Richard,

I bought Jim's 3of9 bar code fonts last year and found them extremely easy
to use.  They work great with our HP LaserJet's (various models) and with
Anzio's Print Wizard (which we use to create PDF files). 

Good luck,

Dan Snyder
IT Manager
Mercury Electronics
717-428-0222 ext.224



--------------- 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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