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From: edwards@bgsuvax.UUCP (Bruce Edwards)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: print barcode
Message-ID: <2117@bgsuvax.UUCP>
Date: 9 May 88 20:55:04 GMT
References: <123@rubmez.UUCP>
Organization: Bowling Green State University B.G., Oh.
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In article <123@rubmez.UUCP>, frei@rubmez.UUCP (Matthias Frei ) writes:
> Hy anybody,
> 
> Did anybody write a PostScript-Procedure generating barcodes ?
> What standards are there, and how to deal with them ?
> 
> If you have any experiences in that subject, please mail to me.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 	Matthias Frei
> 	Mikroelektronikzentrum (A)
> 	Ruhr Universitaet Bochum, West Germany
> 	4630 Bochum 1, Postfach 102148
> 	E-mail  UUCP:  ...!uunet!unido!rubmez!frei

I have written a stand alone program on the Mac which will generate
a UPC barcode with automatic calculation of checksum digit and proper
location of human readable characters (although they are in Helvetica
rather than OCR-B because I've not been able to find an OCR-B font).
And one line of centered text under barcode if desired.

The output can be chosen from one of the following;

1. Dump the screen (crudest, but readable even when generated on dot matrix)
   Or save the screen as a MacPaint file.

2. Send directly to Postscript device (resolution only limited by device)
   Output file pure PostScript.

3. Generate an ADOBE Illustrator file. Which you can double click on
   and be up in Illustrator with your barcode. We then use it as the
   basis upon which to build a packaging or pricing label around, adding
   additional text, graphics, and a border.

We then print the ADOBE file on an L-300 on negative film and make the
plate from that. The resultant label with it's automatically produced
barcode is indistinguishable from a Film Master purchased from an
outside vendor. We save a lot on Film Masters this way and you can
produce any UPC barcode in about 30 seconds. The final product, a
flexographically printed label scans 100% verifiable (that is if the
press operator doesn't fall asleep and screw up the impression).

There are very stringent requirement for the production of UPC barcodes. 
The best place to get information about them is from.

Uniform Code Council, Inc.
7051 Corporate Way Suite 201
Dayton, OH. 45459-4294

If you would like a copy of my program for the Mac please send 
name
address and $15.00 to;

Ken Jenkins
Century Marketing Corp.
12836 South Dixie Highway
Bowling Green, OH. 43402
(419) 354-2591 if you have questions

I will send you a disk with the program on it.
The $15 is not to make me rich, it's for the disk, envelope, postage & hassle.


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