Open source barcode/label designer

Bossk128

Bossk128

Bossk128

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Random one for OCUK I know, but if anybody has come across open source (or free) software that lets me design labels (with barcodes) and print to a Zebra printer, that would be great. The rub is I want to feed one of the fields from a data source (text or xls) so I don't have to individually print each barcode.

Cheers, it's a toughy!
 
Try googling for barcode font and just use Access or Crystal Reports. People charge a fortune for these barcode generators and quite often there is no need (unless you want to do something a bit more advanced). We use a Code 39 font and it works just great. Don't forget to put start and end characters in or your barcode won't be read!
 
We use NiceLabel.

Only restriction on the demo version is only 5 labels at a time - but if you're semi-decent with a programming language you could use the ActiveX/automation components and send one request at a time to the NiceLabel component - meaning you can easily get around this limitation ;)
 
Thanks, all good suggestions and I will have a look later this afternoon. Possible difficulty is that I want a human readable part to the label and a barcode part to the label. I have previously used BarTender (Seagull Software) which is great, but it is pricy!
 
At work we use word, a barcode font and mail merge from an access database when we are printing asset stickers which have our logo, department the item belongs to, item number and then the barcode.
 
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