print bar codes

[Dennis Malen]

WE have been using Jim's codes for a couple of years. There is nothing 
easier that we have found to use. Very simple to use.

Dennis Malen
516.479.5912


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan Snyder" <dan at macdatatech.com>
To: <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Sent: Monday, September 11, 2006 2:47 PM
Subject: RE: print bar codes


> 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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>
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