RE: Printing Bar-Code on HP Laserjet -- MIDRANGE-L

Dare,

Ok, I am not an expert on this so I got the explanation from another one of our Techs. I will try to translate. We use a 10 Base T unshielded triwsted pair wiring scheme (like coax?). The protocol is SNA. The blue cable comes from the controller on the AS400 to and thru an active patch panel and then on to the I-O interface and then from there to the printer itself. The HP is on the network but the Xerox printers are not. They don't necessarily have to be on the network. Again, hope that helped.

Deb

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com [mailto:owner-midrange-l@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Oludare
Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2000 3:59 PM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Cc: RPG AS/400 UserGroup
Subject: Re: Printing Bar-Code on HP Laserjet

Deb,

Are those printers on the network? If not, are you using twinax interface to the box? Could you describle the connectivity as far as protocol and interface.

Thanks,

Dare

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From: Debbie Panco

To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com

Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2000 3:13 PM

Subject: RE: Printing Bar-Code on HP Laserjet

Hi Dare,

Boy this information on changing fongs and printing bar codes from the AS400 to some printers is almost impossible to decipher. The printer manuals tend to be pretty bad when it comes to explaining how to do this. We have an HP Laser Jet 5 Si printer and I figured out how to do oversized printing and postnet barcode on it. Between it and the AS400 we have an I-O Print Box Tx interface. We also have the same interface between the AS400 and a couple of Xerox printers that we have.

This interface has commands that need to be issued to it. It then translates the commands into instructions that the printers can understand. The best part about this is that we can imbed the commands into our spool file and send the spool file to either the HP or Xerox printers. We don't have to have a set of programs that only sends out HP commands and another that sends out Xerox printer commands. Then again if you have only one type of printer that is not a concern.

Anyway, I-O interface command that we issue to print postnet is ¬B4,1,1,0,1,0, followed by the zip code, and then ¬B. What we actually print is ¬B4,1,1,0,1,0,44142146079¬B.

Hope that helped some.

Debbie

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com [mailto:owner-midrange-l@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Oludare
Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2000 11:36 AM
To: AS/400 Midrange Usergroup
Subject: Printing Bar-Code on HP Laserjet

Hello guys,

I know it is possible to print bar-code to Printronix printer by sending bar-code stream data with the data to be bar-coded. Can I do the same for HP laser printer? If yes, what is the bar-code stream data for HP laser or where can I find the information.

Thanks,

Dare