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Bar Code not printing

Former Member — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 15:56:20 GMT

Hello friends,

I have created an SAP script wherein I have made a Bar Code using character format and used as shown below,

where BC is the barcode character format.

I can see the output of Barcode in the print preview, but the client prints it at his location he replies back saying that the print is not proper and there are junk characters being printed , so could you kindly let me know what could be the possible reasons for this. Thank You.

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Re: Bar Code not printing

Former Member — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 16:06:54 GMT

You should use like

<BC>&G_TEMP&</> ,Please check in printer side ,some times printer does not have Bar code font settings

Thanks

Seshu

Re: Bar Code not printing

Former Member — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 17:35:12 GMT

Hello,

have you checked, that the printers support the output of the defined barcode in your SAP script. Some printers need additional hardware to print barcodes, some printers need additional software.

As you say, that you can see the barcode in the preview, I would suppose, that it is a problem of the printers.

Best regards

Stephan

Re: Bar Code not printing

Former Member — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 18:34:30 GMT

had the same problem years ago.

make sure setup in SP01 is correct for all devices.

but more likely it is the printer requiring something....

we needed to install a barcode.dll file on each pc in order for the user to be able to print.

Re: Bar Code not printing

Former Member — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 18:35:46 GMT

found the old manual

The installation is quite simple. Just copy the file ‘barcode.dll’ into your windows directory. Normally, this is the directory ‘C:\WINDOWS’, `C:\WIN95`, `C:\WINNT`, respectively.. When you start the program SAPLPD the next time it will automatically recognize the barcode DLL and use it for barcode printing. SAPLPD will print the initilizationmessage in the protocol window at startup time.

Re: Bar Code not printing

Former Member — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 18:48:05 GMT

barcode.dll is relevent only if you are using printer id LOCL or another printer set up to use your windows standard printer. in any other case, the PRINTER must have barcode fonts loaded into it, and control characters for accessing these fonts must be configured through SPAD.

Re: Bar Code not printing

Former Member — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 07:16:42 GMT

Hello J J,

Could you kindly guide me where do I get the 'barcode.dll' file, I am using LOCL as my output device, so I feel that file not being present is the problem.

Also could any of you guide me if I can use the new type of Barcode for SAP Scripts in 4.7 version.

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Re: Bar Code not printing

Former Member — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 16:14:57 GMT

I have found that we cannot use the new barcode type for scripts, here's the help.sap link

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/d9/4a94c851ea11d189570000e829fbbd/content.htm

but am still not sure as to where do I get the barcode.dll file, please help me out!

Re: Bar Code not printing

Former Member — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 14:31:16 GMT

The barcode.dll comes from a 3rd party vendor. We got ours from the following

http://www.brs-online.de/brs-seiten/startseite.phtml

hope this helps

Re: Bar Code not printing

Former Member — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 15:50:30 GMT

Hi,

Try this......

<BC>&G_TEMP&</> and also check with size,in print preview it will come corrctly but in print output it will overlapped.

Regards,

Billa