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- To install Quick-BAR!
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- Make a directory where you want to locate quickbar,
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- e.g.
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- md c:\quickbar
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- Then copy the files to that directory.
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- copy a:\*.*
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- Now add the icon to your Windows Program Manager
- group. Select F)ile N)ew from the Program Manager.
- Enter c:\quickbar\quickbar.exe as the command line,
- and enter Quickbar as the title.
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- That's all there is to it.
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- If you have a downloaded, zipped version, then first
- unzip the files and follow the steps above.
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- Quick-Bar is a shareware product member of our Clock-IN! family of Time
- Based Business products. Quick-Bar prints a code 3 of 9 bar code
- in varying densities on any Windows printer. Select Print Bar Code,
- then the submenu item Quick Bar Code. Type some characters and hit
- enter. You can then select the printer or just hit enter again to print.
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- You can override the starting x and y offset values. These values are
- in dots, which varies with your printer. Try some values to set the
- beginning offset. You should be able to set these values up for
- convenient single label printing on demand.
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- The bar code height and density are determined by the values you enter for
- characters per inch and height. Bar codes are most readable at 3 to 10
- characters per inch and need a height of at least a quarter inch.
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- The point-size option is the size of the text you want printed
- underneath the bar code. Quick bar only takes about 50k, so you can put
- it in your start-up group and let it hang around. Our commercial bar code,
- time and attendance, and time-slips products include the quick bar code
- feature. Call 313-247-039 for information on these products. This
- share-ware version is available for $15.
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- Despite the parameters you enter, Quick-BAR will read your printer
- definition and expand the bar code to a size that will work, irregardless.
- Hence on some printers you simply can't generate a small bar code.
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- Most printers "bleed" the black areas somewhat into white areas, but
- bar code should have equal sized black and white areas. The bleed pixels
- parameter is automatically set to 1 in this version. It reduces the
- black areas printed by the # pixels you enter here in order to compensate
- for printer bleed. One pixel is one picture element or about one dot
- on a printer. A setting of one is usually sufficient to compensate
- most printers for bleed.
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