Printing the Barcode in Labview is one of the problems I ran into. I
tried to Wasp ActiveX but using ActiveX I was not able to control the
line spacing between barcodes and serial numbers etc. The option I
found was with Barone software from Zebra, which was real easy to
work with.In barone software you can create the label first the way you
want, which is quite easy. After that, through labview you write a text
file with extension .PJ. In this text file you define the answers to
all the questions you defined in the Label, like serial number, part
number, barcode etc. Typical text file will look like this
Path of the label : e.g. c:/directory/label.LBL
Answer0 fro question. Number of labels?: e.g. 5
Answer1 for question. Enter part number?: e.g. for 45612321
Answer2 for question. Enter serial number?: e.g. for 45612321
etc...
Barone keeps on scanning a directory (c:/Barone/Jobs)for new file you
write into it. As soon you write the PJ file Barone reads it and prints
the label. You can define directory scanning time from the software
itself and after reading the file it deletes the file. Barone should be
running in the background for this feature to work.
In nutshell, a label can be printed via a file, which labview can create dynamicaly from the user information.
If anyone knows a better software that works with Labview and have better control on formatting, please let me know.
Thanks
