Re: Okidata 395 barcode print?

Hi Art,

Yes I have accomplished what you are asking in the past when printing from
OS/400. The OKI manual will give you the ASCII hex equivalents to the basic
commands.

You then can enter the ASCII values (ex. CHR$(27) is hex 1B) as ASCII
Transparent hex values (for this single value example X'03011B in your
program) or you can use Transparency and Convert Data keywords to enter the
values that need to become ASCII hex information as EBCDIC Values in your
program. By this I mean you would code the numeric 1 and the capital B as
EBCDIC characters in your field and when you run the conversion against them
with the OS/400 keywords in your program, they become the ASCII hex value 1B
heading towards the printer.

I can send your more information off list if you need it.

Best Regards,

/Paul
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>date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 12:17:18 -0400
>from: "Art Tostaine, Jr." <artjr@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>subject: Okidata 395 barcode print?
>
>Anyone doing this without any extra hardware?  We have some 395's hooked
>up through JetDirects.
>
>According to the manual, I could print the barcode using Lprint commands
>in Basic (great), like this:
>
>50 PRINT #1, CHR$(27) ; CHR$(16) ; "B"; CHR$(10) ; "1234567890"
>
>Is there any chance I could get these codes converted to Ebcdic so that
>I could put them in my spooled output, would they even get past the
>jetdirect?
>
>Any info appreciated.
>
>Art Tostaine, Jr.
>CCA, Inc.
>Jackson, NJ 08527