RE: Barcode that is alpha

Adam,

I think you're a bit mixed up concerning *IPDS and *AFPDS....

You can consider *IPDS do be a subset of *AFPDS. There's nothing about *IPDS that would make it
"easier" than *AFPDS. The BARCODE keyword in the DDS printer file works the same in an *AFPDS printer
file as it does an *IPDS printer file.

I've often simply changed *IPDS printer files to *AFPDS in order to print them on HP printers. Reason
being, Host Print Transform (HPT) will transform *AFPDS to ASCII but not *IPDS.

The one thing that confuses most people is that both *IPDS and *AFPDS spool files require IPDS capable
printers.

*AFPDS (or *IPDS) = CRTDEVPRT TYPE(*IPDS) AFP(*YES)
*IPDS (only) = CRTDEVPRT TYPE(*IPDS) AFP(*NO)

You can have a dot matrix IPDS/AFP(*YES) printer, for example the IBM 64xx line is can print *AFPDS.

You can check with Printronix to see if IPDS is an option available for you printer, I doubt it.

Assuming the printer does a basic graphics capability, and thus can print barcodes, you have two
options.

1) Purchase an IPDS print server, either hardware of software based. Here's a software one:
http://ipds.brooksnet.com/index.html there are others.

2) Embed the ASCII control codes needed to print the barcode directly into the print/spool file by
taking advantage of the ASCII Transparency (ATRN) SCS Control. Here's an IBM doc to get you started:
http://tinyurl.com/55rfj


HTH,


Charles Wilt
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Software Engineer
CINTAS Corporation - IT 92B
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-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Adam West
Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 12:14 PM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: Barcode that is alpha

Buck,



It looks like it can be done using *IPDS data stream not *AFPDS. The
*AFPDS is much
easier, you just have to use the code BARCODE on a PRTF field and it does
the
conversion, as we discussed this week.



With *IPDS, you have to make the conversion in the program, each and
every field
that needs to become a barcode. There is a conversion tool called an EBOX
that is sold
by Twin Data, but this looks like an expensive idea, the quote on the
phone is $1500.



The Printronix manual with examples is here:
http://www.printronix.com/library/assets/public/tech-
pubs/PTX_PRM_VGL_P7000_253099.pdf



I can put together a sample to see if it does print but then there will be
a lot of
programming required to make this conversion within the program. I was
wondering if
anyone has done this type of *IPDS in their RPG program and if there are
any guidelines
on how to do this.

--- On Tue, 5/13/08, Buck <kc2hiz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

From: Buck <kc2hiz@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Barcode that is alpha
To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tuesday, May 13, 2008, 5:07 PM

Adam West wrote:
> 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?


Does this page help?
http://www-
1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=nas10fc2dc92fbe97ece862569c1007a9793
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