We use the Bos Controller to communicate with this warehouse about 20 miles 
   away. This etwinax *VRT 3812 is NOT IPDS.  Therefore, unless the dot matrix 
   has an emulation that supports DDS barcodes, I'm not sure how this will     
   work.  Perhaps Printronix has a different WSCST that can be used to         
   initialize support for DDS Barcodes.                                        
   Does the Printronix printer supports barcode printing.  And if so, how is   
   that accomplished?                                                          
                                                                               
   --- On Mon, 5/12/08, Bill Burnet <BBurnet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:      
                                                                               
     From: Bill Burnet <BBurnet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>                          
     Subject: RE: Barcode that is alpha                                        
     To: "RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries" <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>      
     Date: Monday, May 12, 2008, 4:57 PM                                       
                                                                               
    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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