James, I think I can respond to this as I am an LIS vendor.
The short answer is that it should NOT be an issue, ASSUMING your LIS vendor
can communicate/interface with the two instruments.
Once the barcode is on the cassette or the slide, it becomes a standalone
entity. The barcode on the casset
I am very interested in the answer to this questions, as we are in the
process of trying to procure a General Data cassette printer, but I am not
sure I will try for the slide printers. I would think you could map any
instrument to your LIS, and barcode readers would read any 2-D barcode -
the issu