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<blockquote data-quote="Num7" data-source="post: 40121" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><strong>Re: My New Job</strong></p><p></p><p>Cool, if you got a real label printer, you probably won't need any DLL, the software/printer will just encode the bar codes on the fly and print them. Typically, we just use bar codes product codes/numbers like they do at Walt-Mart. Keep in mind that your USB bar code scanner is made to avoid people from typing stuff: they scan it instead, that's why you don't need to put the product description and such in bar code on the label. All you need is to scan the product code in your inventory software, or perhaps in Excel, or even notepad for test purposes. </p><p></p><p>While the minimum readable length tends to be 2 or 3 characters, I must admit I never tested the max readable length of those bar codes, but I know that code 39 takes a lot of space, a lot more than 128, that's one of the reasons why I prefer code 128. Besides, most companies use code 128. Just check the boxes the stuff you received came in. I bet the bar codes are in 128 format on these boxes.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Num7, post: 40121, member: 1"] [b]Re: My New Job[/b] Cool, if you got a real label printer, you probably won't need any DLL, the software/printer will just encode the bar codes on the fly and print them. Typically, we just use bar codes product codes/numbers like they do at Walt-Mart. Keep in mind that your USB bar code scanner is made to avoid people from typing stuff: they scan it instead, that's why you don't need to put the product description and such in bar code on the label. All you need is to scan the product code in your inventory software, or perhaps in Excel, or even notepad for test purposes. While the minimum readable length tends to be 2 or 3 characters, I must admit I never tested the max readable length of those bar codes, but I know that code 39 takes a lot of space, a lot more than 128, that's one of the reasons why I prefer code 128. Besides, most companies use code 128. Just check the boxes the stuff you received came in. I bet the bar codes are in 128 format on these boxes. [/QUOTE]
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