How to Choose the Correct Barcode Font?

te6

Hi Experts,

I serached through the foroums. But , I may miss some foroums..

How to Choose the Correct Barcode Font??.. for the report and to be scanned by the scanner. A month back , we Installed 'EAN13 M ' It is generating the BArcode in the report. But, when we kept infront of the scanner , it is not getting scanned. I am unable to find where i gone wrong . I not getting , which font to bw installed .

Our client Barcode contains only NUmbers and the Length of the Barcode is 13digit Number.

Experts , Please guide me how to choose the correct barcode font to be scanned .

garak

First u must know, which barcodes your Scanner can read and if it is correct configured.
After knowing this, use these barcode as font in your reports (for example "Code128Win" or "3of9", or "EAN13").
And take a look to the correct syntax of your selected barcode (EAN13) type, like the checksum at the end.

read also this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EAN13
and for the formula and checksum this
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/EAN13#Pr.C3.BCfziffer

Regards

te6

Hi garak,

thanks for u r reply..

Savatage

3of9 works great for us using 12 & 13 digit numbers - easy to use too
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Alex_Chow

Some barcodes can only be read with special scanners. What is your intention for your use of barcodes? Is it just for internal use?