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From Usenet: watmath!watdcsu!haapanen From: haapanen@watdcsu.waterloo.edu (Tom Haapanen) Subject: Producing bar codes on a PC Message-ID: <4118@watdcsu.waterloo.edu> Date: 16 Nov 87 04:53:50 GMT Reply-To: haapanen@watdcsu.UUCP (Tom Haapanen) Distribution: na Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 19 A friend (not on the net) wishes to produce bar codes on his PC for the new Harmonized System of customs clearance. He apparently needs to produce five stickers for each unique 13-digit (?) number. I believe that either of a laser printer or a dot matrix is capable of such output, with the latter also being capable of doing labels. However, what is missing is the software to drive the printer. Does anyone know of *anything* that produces barcodes? Crude or fancy, please tell me about it. Alternately, I suppose I could grind out some code for him --- in this case, would anyone know of a good reference on how bar codes work? Ie, the encoding, the standards, etc. Thanks for any help --- please respond by mail. I will summarize if there is much interest. \tom haapanen ...!watmath!watdcsu!haapanen --- via UGate v1.6 * Origin: watmath (221/163)