[Koha] barcodes- can ordinary printer be used?

[Han, Yan]

It can be problems with your barcode scanners. Barcode scanners need to
setup correctly to read different code schemas. Have you tested them?

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From: koha-bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz
[mailto:koha-bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Marty Jongepier
Sent: Monday, November 19, 2007 12:03 PM
To: 'kenneth rotich'; koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
Subject: RE: [Koha] barcodes- can ordinary printer be used?



No, you do not need a special barcode printer. However, a different
printer can make quite a difference, I know from experience. We have had
great success with a cheap brother laser printer (HL-1230), but we could
also read barcodes printed with an Epson Stylus C84, and we used an old
Canon laser beast, until it broke, and that worked fine too.

 

Barcodes do need a bit of "white space" around them, our first labels
were too small but worked fine on a white or light background, and also
on black backgrounds, but anything in between would not work.

 

That being said, it can be your printer. We can print barcodes to PDF
files (we use kbarcode, see kbarcode.net) but even if they look
identical to the ones that are printed straight from the program, our
stubborn barcode reader refuses to read them. I talked to it, I've been
nice, I've been not so nice, but that has never worked that way. So we
do not PDF them anymore.

 

Did you try reading other barcodes? Like you find on any product
nowadays?

 

Hope this helps a bit,

 

Marty

 

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From: koha-bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz
[mailto:koha-bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of kenneth rotich
Sent: Monday, November 19, 2007 12:11 PM
To: koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
Subject: [Koha] barcodes- can ordinary printer be used?

 

we have successfully intalled koha for windows 2.2.8 and we are
currently testing and customizing to fit our needs. 

we have generated some barcodes using the normal printer but these
barcodes cannot be read by the barcode reader. Do we have to use special
printer to print barcodes? please help. thanks

ken rotich

kenrotich2003 at yahoo.com

  

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