Label & Barcode Printing with OE10

Nikki

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Hi All

I want to be able to print barcodes on labels from Progress, sounds easy enough, right? OK so here’s the challenge …..

I need to be able to print these barcodes with ANY laser printer, WITHOUT using:
1. Printer Control Codes
2. Report Builder
3. Preferably without any third party software (this option may be explored if there is no other way)
4. No Printers that are specifically designed for barcodes such as Zebra printers etc.

BTW one of the barcodes is a PDF417 2D barcode, which has to be printed vertically...

Does anyone have any ideas?
 
Hi all,

We're still attempting the PDF method, but as yet we've not managed to encode a pdf417 barcode to the document.

To make the problem a little more interesting, the amount of labels that may need to be printed could run into thousands per day. Is there any way of printing from Progress without having to open a PDF reader and clicking the 'print' option?

The system we are developing is a standalone package for our customers, it may/may not be networked, may/may not be connected to the internet and each customer will produce between 20 and 4000 barcode label per night.

The major headaches we are trying to solve are:

1: production of a barcode labels (Explained in Nikki's post)
2: creation of an install set that we can send to our customers on CD.

Any help on either problem would be much appreciated.

Al
 
You can use shellexecute win api analogous to right-click print or Gordon Campbell's winprintpdf.w to programmatically print the file.

You can find references on using the shellexecute win api @Jurjen Dijkstra - global-shared.com
 
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