Barcodes

[Dena]

In Access 2003 I have a report that has barcodes in it. Part of the barcodes
work, but others do not. They are all horizontial on the report. And all
the field properties match except the field size. I'm using 3 of 9 font.
If anyone could point me in the right direction I'd appreciate it.

 

[Rick Brandt]

In Access 2003 I have a report that has barcodes in it. Part of the
barcodes work, but others do not. They are all horizontial on the
report. And all the field properties match except the field size.
I'm using 3 of 9 font.
If anyone could point me in the right direction I'd appreciate it.

3 of 9 readers normally require a starting and trailing asterisk (*). Does
your report have those?

 

[Dena]

Yes, I've tried with the asterik and without it. Neither works, but thanks.

 

[Ron Weiner]

Dena

What do you mean by "Neither Works"

Are you getting an error? Does the barcode not appear on the report? Does
the barcode appear, but just can not be scanned by your reader? What kinds
of data (and how much) are you trying to encode? Can you show us some code,
documents, or anything else that might help us help you.

As a WAG try making your fields on the report a LOT wider. It may be that
the barcodes that don't work are "not working" because they have been
truncated.

Rdub

 

[bfield3]

Dena

What do you mean by "Neither Works"

Are you getting an error?  Does the barcode not appear on the report?  Does
the barcode appear, but just can not be scanned by your reader?  What kinds
of data (and how much) are you trying to encode?  Can you show us some code,
documents, or anything else that might help us help you.

As a WAG try making your fields on the report a LOT wider.  It may be that
thebarcodesthat don't work are "not working" because they have been
truncated.







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Dena,
As rdub said, make the fields wider. 99% of all barcodes require a
quiet zone surrounding the code. That quiet zone is supposed to be .
25" or 10 times the x-dimension of the code. Just go with the .25"
for now if you don't understand what the x-dimension is. If you don't
have the correct quiet zone the scanner will assume the surrounding
lines or marks are part of the barcode and it won't read them.
- Bill

 

[code39man]

Hi Dena,

You should have a look at the tutorial here

http://www.gripon.com.au/?gripon=tutorial_learningaboutcode39barcodes

Have a look at the picture which shows the start and stop characters
on this tutorial (para 4). These are the asterisk characters and if
the start and stop characters on your barcode don't look like this
then the wrong characters are going into it. It is really easy to get
an extra character which makes the barcode not work properly.

Cheers
Ces