I had my first encounter with barcode printing when laser printers where expensive and everybody was still using lineflow on line- or dot matrix printers. I wrote Basic code to print barcodes on a Panasonic dot matrix printer using graphics mode once for a client. It was a real pain since you couldn't print char 255 from Pick and char 0 only on parallel printers. Later with lasers and PCL5 it was a piece of cake. Just calculate the check digit, select the right font and you can print your barcode anywhere on the page. I even used soft fonts to print pictures on documents. The only problem with soft fonts is that you need to download them again every time the power is switched off on the printer. And that can be a bit of a challenge. So you really have to build that into your code to make sure the right font is actually installed on the printer. If you have to write "a lot" of PCL code then a product like print wizards seems a good investment, though.
Mecki Bob Rasmussen wrote: > On Tue, 18 May 2010, Charlie Noah wrote: > > >> ... >> Sorry, Tony, I have the greatest respect you you, but printing barcode is >> just >> too easy to pay a lot for it. >> > > Who said anything about paying "a lot"? You can get started in Print > Wizard for $99 or $300, depending on configuration. How much is your time > worth? > > (And not all printers have barcode capabilities built in.) > > (And thanks again, Tony.) > > Regards, > ....Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. > > personal e-mail: [email protected] > company e-mail: [email protected] > voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) > fax: (US) 503-624-0760 > web: http://www.anzio.com > street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc. > 10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9 > Portland, OR 97223 USA > _______________________________________________ > U2-Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users > > _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list [email protected] http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
