HELP ! How to print barcode with Access ?

[Rob Paller]

Mabry makes a control that prints barcodes. (http://www.mabry.com)

[Carolyn Kay]

Hi, Tony

 

Why do you need a control?  Why don't you just get the barcode fonts (they're readily available) and print them yourself.  All you need to know is that to print  the contents of a field as a barcode it has to have a special character attached to the beginning and the end--I think it's *.

 

HTH, Caro ;-)

"Tony Siu" <ton...@vtc.edu.hk> wrote in message news:38C6410F...@vtc.edu.hk...

I want to print barcodes using the extra controls (ActiveX controls) supplied by Microsoft Access.
Does anybody know which control in MS Access I can use to print barcodes in MS Access?
What is the name of the control ? I heard that MS Access can do this, but I don't know where to find the right "control" to use. I would appreciate if you can help me solve this problem.

Tony
 

[Jefferson, Ray]

I don't know of what ActiveX control you're looking for, but you can get barcode fonts from a number of different places. You would then just set the font of your textbox to that of the barcode font.

 

RJ

[Dave]

I heard Wasp Barcoding has a few programs out that produce barcodes for
databases such as Access.

Dave

Rob Paller wrote in message ...

[Lyle Shammel]

Use Bars & Strips OCX developed by Tippecanoe systems, Inc

"Jefferson, Ray" wrote:

I don't know of what ActiveX control you're looking for, but you can get barcode fonts from a number of different places. You would then just set the font of your textbox to that of the barcode font. RJ 

Tony Siu <ton...@vtc.edu.hk> wrote in message news:38C6410F...@vtc.edu.hk...I want to print barcodes using the extra controls (ActiveX controls) supplied by Microsoft Access.

[Thomas Lutz]

The best tool on the market for adding bar codes to an Acces database
report is the TAL Bar Code ActiveX control. You can download a demo
version of it from www.taltech.com. The demo comes with a sample
Access database that shows how to use the control in an Access
application.

On Thu, 20 Apr 2000 04:23:16 GMT, Lyle Shammel
<Lyl...@Worldnet.att.net> wrote:

>ton...@vtc.edu.hk

[J.P. Poveda]

Will this software also allow you to lookup a record by scanning in a bar
code? (e.g., product ID, employee ID from a badge, etc.)

J.P.

"Thomas Lutz" <t...@taltech.com> wrote in message
news:391726f8....@news.earthlink.net...

[Steve]

why demo...www.flash.net/~hoytk/manuprog.html for Code39...for EAN 13, 8 and
ITF, email ho...@progressrail.com and i'll give you ActiveX source code FREE
(the control resizes itself on a form or in a browser but must be set in an
access report while in design view...IViewObject limitation...know any good
API functions?

[Thomas Lutz]

The TAL Bar Code ActiveX control is only for printing bar codes. For
reading bar codes you have several options. First you would need to
write a Query in Access to do the lookup and then set up either a form
to let the user input the bar code data into the form or write a
subroutine that runs the query based on data that is received through
the serial port from the bar code readers.

The following article explains the different ways to connect a bar
code reader to a PC:

Most bar code readers are available with one of two output options.
The first option is called "Keyboard Wedge" output where you unplug
your keyboard, plug the bar code reader into the keyboard port on your
PC and then plug your keyboard into the bar code reader. This
arrangement makes the bar code reader appear as it it were simply a
second keyboard. Your original keyboard continues to work as normal
however when you read a bar code, the data encoded in the bar code
appears to any application running on your PC as if it were typed in.
The keyboard wedge interface is extremely simple however it has a few
drawbacks. If you swipe a bar code, the cursor has to be in the
correct input field in the correct application otherwise you end up
reading bar code data into whatever application has the focus. This
can cause all sorts of potential problems as you can imagine. The
keyboard output also is limited in that you cannot modify the data in
any way before sending it into the program that is to receive the
data. For example, if you needed to parse a bar code message up into
pieces or remove some of a bar code message or add in a date or time
stamp you would not be able to with a normal keyboard wedge reader.

The other possible output option is to get a bar code reader with an
RS232 or "Serial" interface. With these types of bar code readers, you
connect the reader to an available serial port on the back of your PC.
You would then need a program called a "Software Wedge" to take the
data from the bar code reader and feed it to the application where you
want the data to go. The disadvantage to this approach is that it is a
little more complex however you gain much more control over how and
where your data ends up when you read a bar code. With a Software
Wedge, you can control exactly where the data goes in the target
application and you can also perform all sorts of modifications on the
data before it is sent to the application.

TAL Technologies sells a product called WinWedge which is a Software
Wedge for Windows.
Visit: http://www.taltech.com for more information. This web site is
also an extremely good place to obtain information about bar coding in
general.

On Tue, 9 May 2000 08:38:54 -0700, "J.P. Poveda" <je...@pacbell.net>
wrote: