----- 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
