I have been printing barcodes from Java since around 2000. Assuming you only need "3 of 9 Barcodes", you just need a barcode FONT. You can either buy one or find a FREE one. If you can't find a free one, let me know.
There is a font named "3 of 9 Barcode" that I found on the web years ago. The author is apparently no longer enforcing his copyright - I made attempts years ago to contact him. 3 of 9 Barcodes only require a starting and ending "*" (which you must concatenate to the data in your code). Other barcode symbologies are more complex. See: www.idautomation.com I bought the Code128 barcode font from them and integrated with Java printing code I wrote. THEY ALSO HAVE SAMPLE JAVA CODE FOR USE WITH THIS FONT, and others. For barcode scanning, you just buy a barcode scanner and when you scan a barcode, it acts just like keyboard input. I just bought a nice entry-level USB barcode scanner for $65. There are also Barcode VERIFIERs - expensive devices which can analyze barcodes for quality. Hope this helps. Regards, Hugh At 08:45 PM 7/29/2005, Richard O. Hammer wrote: >I need to develop Java code to interact with barcodes: first to produce and >print barcodes, and then later to input data from a barcode scanner. I'm >looking for hints. Can anybody recommend software? > >For my first assignment in this vein I need to figure out a way to print a few >thousand barcode labels in a new format and with data drawn from a new source. > I am starting with a system which: > - prints barcode labels on a Brady laboratory printer, > - driven by TeklynxÂ’ Codesoft 7.0 label printing software, > - driven by ActiveX technology (if I understand correctly), > - from VB modules in a MS Access program, > - with data drawn from the MS Access tables. > >Somewhere I need to break into that chain to insert my new format and >different data source. For this assignment Java would be okay, especially >because I already know some Java and will be doing more Java barcoding later, >but Java is not required. It probably wouldn't hurt me too much to learn some >ActiveX, if that would be easier. > >More hints? > >Thanks, >Rich Hammer > >_______________________________________________ >Juglist mailing list >[email protected] >http://trijug.org/mailman/listinfo/juglist_trijug.org > > > >-- >No virus found in this incoming message. >Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. >Version: 7.0.338 / Virus Database: 267.9.7/60 - Release Date: 7/28/2005 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.338 / Virus Database: 267.9.7/60 - Release Date: 7/28/2005 _______________________________________________ Juglist mailing list [email protected] http://trijug.org/mailman/listinfo/juglist_trijug.org
