RE: Barcode that is alpha

I've done it with a Printronix that had a Magnum graphics card in it. It
didn't have IPDS or AFPDS support so I had to use the Printronix
graphics language to turn on graphics mode and send the control
characters to print bar codes. Not fun and the quality of the bar code
was poor.

-----Original Message-----
From: Adam West [mailto:adamster@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, May 12, 2008 11:27 AM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: Barcode that is alpha

One issue is the Printronix = as a dot matrix ABSOLUTE MOVEMENT
printer, I am
being told by IBM SOftware support.







Perhaps someone here has used the Printronix successfully?



--- On Mon, 5/12/08, Buck <kc2hiz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:



From: Buck <kc2hiz@xxxxxxxxx>

Subject: Re: Barcode that is alpha

To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx

Date: Monday, May 12, 2008, 4:08 PM



Adam West wrote:

> I was just curious when I look at the output it doesn't look like
a
bar code at all.

> Before I tell the operators to be on the lookout for this, is this

correct? that is it

> will print a barcode on the printer but if you look at the spool
on
WRKSPLF it shows

> as a non barcode text field?





Guessing that 'looking at' here means WRKSPLF, that's right. You

probably see a message at the bottom of the display saying 'Bar
codes
not displayed.' Just print it out and see how it looks with your

printer. Here is a simple sample:



A R PRTHED

*

A 1'Bar code test 14'

A SKIPB(3)

A SPACEA(1)

A R PRTDTA

A CODE 14 O 10BARCODE(CODE3OF9 *NOHRI)

A SPACEA(3)



Compile with DEVTYPE(*AFPDS)



fbarcode o e printer oflind(*in01)

c write prthed

c eval code = 'TEST123'

c write prtdta

c eval *inlr = *on

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