Path: utzoo!censor!geac!jtsv16!uunet!ginosko!ctrsol!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!bionet!ames!ll-xn!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!tektronix!reed!busker!p8.f14.n105.z1.FIDONET.ORG!Howard.Spindel From: Howard.Spindel@p8.f14.n105.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Howard Spindel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: need bar code label generator Message-ID: <850.24DA91F7@busker.FIDONET.ORG> Date: 5 Aug 89 04:28:54 GMT Organization: FidoNet node 1:105/14.8 - Busker's Boneyard, Portland OR Lines: 37 > From: terry@joshua.math.ucla.edu > Date: 2 Aug 89 16:21:11 GMT > Organization: UCLA Mathematics Department > Message-ID: <1526@sunset.MATH.UCLA.EDU> > Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc > > Hi, everyone. I am looking for a program that will produce > bar code > labels -- the bars themselves as well as alphanumerics on > the same > label. Preferably this would be PD or shareware; if not, > something > under $100. > > Possible hardware platforms are Sun 3/50s, 1/50s, Mac I or > II, > and IBM PC/XT/AT. Printers can be HP Laserjet I/II, Mac > Imagewriters, > or IBM Proprinters. > > If you have any suggestions or information, please send your > response > via e-mail. I will post a summary to the appropriate > newsgroups. > Thanks! > > > Terry McKiernan > terry@math.ucla.edu I recently had a similar requirement and did several days research on the subject. The best advice I could give is to check out something called SymBCG from a company named Symbologic (17017 Jeanette Ave. Cerritos, Ca.). I don't have their phone number handy but I originally found out about them from one of the small ads in the back of Byte where you can presumably look it up too. This is not free, but for $79 you get source code in C for Interleaved 2 of 5, Code 39, Codabar, EAN, and UPC. The source c ode is royalty free. It does not do alphanumeric labelling but you can add that since you get source (I added it in my application). I am not a bar code expert and can't testify that the output meets all of the rigorous bar code standards, but I am so far a reasonably satisfied customer. The other solutions that I found that would work were much more expensive, so I bought this package with the idea that $79 wasn't a whole bunch to loose if it wasn't any good, and I was pleasantly surprised to get something that seemed to work quite well. -- Howard Spindel - via FidoNet node 1:105/14 UUCP: ...!{uunet!oresoft, tektronix!reed}!busker!14.8!Howard.Spindel ARPA: Howard.Spindel@p8.f14.n105.z1.FIDONET.ORG