Printing Bar Code 128 To An HP Laser Printer

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June 20, 2014
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Dominique Sacre
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I would like to be able to print a six digit number as a bar code(128) from MF COBOL on a text document sent to an HP Laserjet printer. I could not find any reference to this ability in Microfocus' online documentation and this was confirmed by their technical support group today. Does anyone know of a 3rd party plug in product or any other solution that will allow this capability? Thank you in advance.

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Chris Glazier
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Forum|Forum|11 years ago
June 23, 2014

I would like to be able to print a six digit number as a bar code(128) from MF COBOL on a text document sent to an HP Laserjet printer. I could not find any reference to this ability in Microfocus' online documentation and this was confirmed by their technical support group today. Does anyone know of a 3rd party plug in product or any other solution that will allow this capability? Thank you in advance.

Which COBOL product are you using and on which platform?

The easiest method for printing simple barcodes would be to use a specialized barcode font from a 3rd party.

These allow you to write a record to the printer containing the string value to be placed in the barcode surrounded by delimiter characters and then the barcode will be printed using the installed font.

Try a Google search on printing barcode fonts and you will get a number of hits for various platforms including Windows, Unix and Linux.

Example:

http://www.barcodingfonts.com/

Thanks