Barcodes

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Our Epson laser printer came with some barcode fonts. I have made a
report that uses one of these fonts for a text box on the report, and
when it is printed to this printer, the bar code is printed. The bar
code does not show on the screen in preview mode, nor will it print on
another printer.

This worked OK for us, as we already had the printer. You can purchase
bar code fonts. When I researched this they were costing about two
hundred GBP or so, and I guess these should work with any printer as
well as showing on the screen.

Of course, if you are going to distribute the application, you won't
be able to use printer-specific fonts, and you will have to install
the barcode font on each machine the application is going to run on.
 
Access does not provide any bar code printing functionality however
there are a number of add-ins that you can use to print bar codes in
an Access report.
The easiest and the best solution would be to use a bar code ActiveX
control. You could probably use a bar code font however bar codes have
a start pattern, a stop pattern and a check digit that must be
calculated. If you use a bar code ActiveX control, these will all be
taken care of for you automatically. You can also "bind" an ActiveX
control to a data source so all you need to do is drop the control
onto your report, set a couple properties and start printing.
The best bar code ActiveX control on the market is available at the
following URL:
http://www.taltech.com/products/activex_barcodes.html
You can download a demo version of the product from the above URL and
the demo even comes with a sample Access database that demonstrates
how to use it in Access.
 
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