Printing Barcodes using a 4100n

[David Jardon]

Is it possible to print barcodes using a laserjet 4100n from a unix system. If so, how?

[G. Vrijhoeven]

HI David,

# echo "|||| || | |||||| ||| | |||" lp -d printername

:)

Here are some links i found using google:
http://www.tec-it.com/asp/main/startfr.asp?mainmenu=&sbmenu=&content=TBC_LINUX&redirect=&LN=1&DW=1

http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Modules/dist_html?dist_id=8888

http://www.e-bizco.de/download_barcode.phtml

If you do a search you will find a lot more possibilities.

HTH,

Gideon

[A. Clay Stephenson]

There is a printer module that will do this. Do a search on JetCAPS and you will find it. My method for doing this is a product called UnForm. It will do barcodes plus a whole lot more and is easy to integrate with existing applications --- including those for which you don't have the source code.
http://www.unform.com/

[David Jardon]

We are basically trying to barcode a piece of information. Will I need a SIMM board?

[A. Clay Stephenson]

No, it can be a purely software solution. For example, UnForm does it with software alone.

[David Jardon]

We currently using unform ourselves. However, I need the command that I will have to execute to get it to barcode a piece of information that is printed on a document. Can you point me in the right direction or will the people at unform be able to help me with this?

[A. Clay Stephenson · Accepted solution]

Here's a section of one of my rules files that prints an Order Number in barcode. Our application calls for a %O to prepent the actual order number so that the scanning software recognizes the field. The order no. is stored in order_number$ which has already been assigned. The order itself is also printed just below the barcode in this example. It uses the exec() function to build up a complex barcode command that is instantiated at run-time.


precopy {
if len(order_number$) > 0 \
then \
fbarcode$ = "%O"+order_number$; \
s_title$ = "Order No: "+order_number$; \
exec("barcode 75.0,0.5,"+chr(34)+fbarcode$+chr(34)+",400,80,3); \
exec("text 80.0,2.8,"+chr(34)+s_title$+chr(34)+",shade 100,univers,6.5,left") \
fi
}

Note the 400 symbology code corresponds to CODE39 with no check digit.