We print on A4 sheets of labels using a standard laser printer (kyocera), and use two ways.
Method A is use a barcode and label generation package. kbarcode is an example that is free under linux, but there are others that do the same thing under other systems. What you get here is (i) the ability to generate codes of almost all types without having the code font installed (ii) the ability to do label layout and printing to almost any standard label. You get to add text to the code, eg a price, and to run it at right angles to the code, or put it under the code. To resize the code, truncate it, archive it, print in batch mode.... This is a really flexible solution and lets you use, free, codes whose fonts are quite expensive to buy. The drawback is that if you are trying to print in another app, the codes become graphical objects, and resizing them outside of kbarcode, eg in a powerpoint or word type package, leads to reading difficulties. So page layout is a bit difficult and not very satisfactory. Method B is to get a font and then you can print from any application in exactly the same way as you would print words in any other font. We do this when generating print documents in a presentation package, because resizing and layout is very easy. You can do label layout and printing in just the same way as with any other font. We would do this if barcoding for instance a mailing list with mailmerge. This is also what we would do if using a roll printer. The only issue would be finding one with a driver for the OS. Sarah is right about code 128, it seems to be the most compact and readable at least of the ones kbarcode supports. There are one or two free versions if you look hard enough on the web. Her package which tells you exactly what the reader is sending is also very useful when it fails to work first time. I would hate to try to set up printing to labels on rev. Getting the alignment exactly right for a custom label set even using kbarcode took a lot of micro adjustments of the spacing. I used a needle. Print a full set at your draft configuration, then overlay the label sheet on it exactly, then push the needle through at the corners of a few labels. Examine, readjust, repeat until perfect. Tedious. Peter _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution