Adam,
Ok, I have been reading this thread for awhile and just
wanted to let you know if you get tired of messing with AFP
and it's proprietary printers there is a simple solution.
Our SpoolFlex product can take any data in your existing
spooled files and convert it to bar code using any HP or
compatible printer. Nothing to do with Form Overlays, simply
define where the spool data is located, which bar code type
you want to use and where you want the bar code printed. Our
software will insert the PCL data into your existing spooled
file to print the bar codes for you.
No programming is required, no hardware is required other
then an HP or compatible laser printer, which most companies
have an abundance of.
So for a couple thousand dollars for software you could be
printing bar codes in a few minutes and you could spend your
time on more valuable projects.
Look at how much it has already cost your company in your
time trying to deal with bar coding using AFP.
Just a suggestion.
John Allen
DRV Technologies, Inc.
www.drvtech.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Adam West [mailto:adamster@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 2:49 PM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: O SPec Bar code printing?
OK that doesn't sound worth it for us.
I take it there is no tool around that would take the O
specs and convert
into An PRTF?
--- On Tue, 5/20/08, Buck <kc2hiz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Buck <kc2hiz@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: O SPec Bar code printing?
To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tuesday, May 20, 2008, 6:21 PM
Adam West wrote:
> I was just wanting to confirm that you CANNOT print
the barcode in an RPG
> program that is O-Spec defined as opposed to using the
PRTF? I just heard
> that it is able to be done in the O-Spec. This would
be a better option
> than making over, a legacy program replete with cycle
controlled
> indicators.
It is possible to do in plain RPG, but I would say that
it took me
something on the order of 4 weeks to do my first one.
Between learning
about the new printer data stream, to configuring the
printer properly
(both at the printer and at the System i) to the
nit-picking, heavily
detail oriented bit twiddling / testing cycle, it was a
fair amount of
work. I would say I had several hundred
edit/compile/test cycles before
I was done.
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