Teach you how to generate a bar code or print a bar code

Teach you how to generate a bar code or print a bar code

This article teaches you how to generate a bar code or print out a bar code, and hopes to be helpful to all bar code practitioners. Barcode barcodes already exist in many aspects of our daily life and work, and are almost everywhere you are. If you need to work because of the bar code will often be used. So how to generate or print a barcode? Here are some ways to talk about it:

First, the use of a dedicated bar code printer

If you are using bar codes in the production process, or in other environments where a large number of bar code labels are used, or if you need to print bar codes on some special media, you can use a dedicated bar code printer. Barcode printers print barcodes in many ways. A complete bar code printing system needs 3 parts: barcode printer, bar code printing software, and self-adhesive labels and ribbons.

Second, the use of office printers or home printers

If you use a very small number of bar codes and the print media is plain paper, you can use a regular office or home printer to print the bar code. To print a bar code using an ordinary printer, there are several ways:

1, the use of bar code fonts Bar code fonts that can be directly displayed characters into barcode TrueType Windows fonts. These fonts can be purchased at certain font production companies or use some free downloadable bar code fonts.

2, use the bar code control If you need to print bar code directly in your own software system can use the bar code control, if you install Office in Access, you can find a free Microsoft provided bar code control barcode.ocx.

3. Use special bar code printing software These special bar code printing software (such as bartender, codesoft) generally also provide printing components that can be called in other systems. The special barcode printing software can provide the WYSIWYG typesetting function like Word, it can also connect to the database, print the changed serial number and so on.

Third, the printing plant printing bar code

If you need a very large number of barcodes, and these barcodes are constant, such as the general product label, you can directly use the printing method, which can make the single-sheet cost lower.