You will need
- - personal computer;
- printer;
- paper for printer;
- - Microsoft Word, WordPerfect, Microsoft Access, FoxPro or Excel.
Instruction
1
The bar code usually prints on the label producers. If you are printing it yourself, the barcode you have to print yourself.
2
Open one referred to in the section "You will need" software, create a new document.
3
For printing a barcode select the font to True Type Font. This is the code font. When you select this font, all information will be printed in the form that you need.
4
Type the desired information, place the barcode image in the desired form and print it.
5
As practice shows, the best barcode to apply directly on the label. A so-called thermal printers print labels already printed on them the bar code, if they will be laid in advance of the corresponding program. You will only have to paste on goods are ready label.
6
Barcodes are usually applied to ensure easy identification of a product as well as its transportation and storage. The information required by producers and sellers. For consumers it is, basically, useless.
Useful advice
In Russia, as in most countries of the world, to encode EAN system is used in which encrypted thirteen digits. The first 2 of them encrypted country code, the next five – code of the seller or of the manufacturer, the next 5 digits indicate the product code. And the last digit is responsible for monitoring the accuracy of barcode scanning.
What kind of printer you use matrix, inkjet or laser – it does not matter. So if you are only going to buy it, better to stay in the matrix – they are cheaper than the others. If you intend to use it not only for the manufacture of barcodes, but also for other purposes, such as printing color images, buy a good inkjet printer.
What kind of printer you use matrix, inkjet or laser – it does not matter. So if you are only going to buy it, better to stay in the matrix – they are cheaper than the others. If you intend to use it not only for the manufacture of barcodes, but also for other purposes, such as printing color images, buy a good inkjet printer.
