----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2000 3:13
PM
Subject: RE: Printing Bar-Code on HP
Laserjet
Hi Dare,
Boy this information on changing fongs and
printing bar codes from the AS400 to some printers is almost impossible to
decipher. The printer manuals tend to be pretty bad when it comes to
explaining how to do this. We have an HP Laser Jet 5 Si printer and
I figured out how to do oversized printing and postnet barcode on
it. Between it and the AS400 we have an I-O Print Box Tx
interface. We also have the same interface between the AS400 and a
couple of Xerox printers that we have.
This interface has commands that need to be issued to
it. It then translates the commands into instructions that the
printers can understand. The best part about this is that we can
imbed the commands into our spool file and send the spool file to either
the HP or Xerox printers. We don't have to have a set of programs
that only sends out HP commands and another that sends out Xerox printer
commands. Then again if you have only one type of printer that is
not a concern.
Anyway, I-O interface command that we issue to
print postnet is ¬B4,1,1,0,1,0, followed by
the zip code, and then ¬B. What we actually print is
¬B4,1,1,0,1,0,44142146079¬B.
Hope that helped some.
Debbie
Hello guys,
I know it is possible to print bar-code to Printronix
printer by sending bar-code stream data with the data to be
bar-coded. Can I do the same for HP laser printer? If yes, what is
the bar-code stream data for HP laser or where can I find the
information.
Thanks,
Dare
midrange.com
