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║ EPSON 9 & 24 PIN DOT MATRIX AND HP LASERJET VERSION ║
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BARMAN BARCODE LABELLER
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Version 1.5E
(c) BYTEBACK 1993
CONTENTS
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INTRODUCTION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
MAIN FUNCTIONS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
BARCODE FUNCTIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
TEXT FUNCTIONS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
FORMAT DATA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
MISCELLANEOUS FUNCTIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
ENCODING OPTIONS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
PRINTER SELECTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
APPENDIX A - DEFAULT AND EXAMPLE SETTINGS . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
APPENDIX B - GRAPHICS MODES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
APPENDIX C - ASCII TABLE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
APPENDIX D - REGISTERING THIS SOFTWARE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
INTRODUCTION
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The BARMAN barcode labeller is a stand-alone program designed to run
on IBM PC, XT and AT type computers or similar clones running under
MSDOS 2.00 or higher. The minimum system required to run BARMAN is
128K of memory, A mono display card and a single 5.25" floppy disc
drive.
BARMAN can use most Epson 9 pin and 24 pin printers (FX, LX, LQ etc.)
and the Hewlett Packard LaserJet II or higher series of printers (Note
not the Deskjet range). Indeed it will most probably operate well on
other makes of printers which are fully compatible with the
aforementioned types, however they have not been tested with this
program and BYTEBACK can accept no responsibility for their correct
operation with BARMAN. (Note that old MX printers from Epson will nt
work with BARMAN since they do not have the graphics capabilities of
all subsequent models of Epson printers.
The program will encode seven of the most popular barcode formats
including Code 39, Interleaved 2 of 5 and EAN format. Additionally,
it allows direct control over the size of the barcodes and the number
of columns of barcodes printed.
The conventions used within this manual are:
1) Text enclosed within '<>' symbols refer to specific keys on
the keyboard, e.g. <ESC> is the escape key.
2) References such as 2C in the text refer to a particular
selection within the menus, in this case, menu 2 option C.
When selecting options from the menus, you will notice a slight delay
between pressing the key for the required option and the prompt line
or the new menu appearing. (The prompt line appears directly below the
menu.) This allows the operator to monitor their choice before the
selection is completed. Note that <ENTER> does not need to be pressed
to make the computer accept a single character choice. Similarly, when
a prompt line asks an either/or type of question, e.g. YES/NO then
only the first character is required to be entered without the <ENTER>
key being pressed. Any other type of entry will, however, require the
<ENTER> key to be pressed in order to terminate the entry.
To run the program, switch on the computer in the usual manner. Insert
the disc with BARMAN into drive A and select the drive or go to your
hard drive partition with BARMAN installed and run the program by
typing the following command:-
BARMAN <ENTER>
After a short time, the title screen is displayed. After a short
delay, menu 1 will be displayed on the screen. The following pages
describe the use of this program in detail.
Note that at any time the ESCAPE key may be pressed to exit the
currently selected menu or the program eventually if you are in menu
1.
The speed of printing the barcodes will depend largely on the type of
computer used (PC, XT AT, PS2 etc.), it's basic clock rate and the
type of printer used.
Also supplied with BARMAN are three example parameter files,
EX9PIN.BAR (for 9 pin printers), EX24PIN.BAR (for 24 pin printers) and
EXLASER.BAR (for the HP LaserJet series). These can be loaded into
BARMAN with option 5B and can be altered to run under your own
requirements. Further details of these files can be found in Appendix
A.
The files supplied are not protected or disabled in any way and may
be copied freely onto your hard disk. This package has been entered
into the shareware domain and if you find this package useful after
an initial 21 day trial period I would like you to register it for
UK£30 (see registration form in Appendix D.
MENU : 1
TITLE : MAIN FUNCTIONS
PATH : DEFAULT MENU
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║ MAIN FUNCTIONS MENU (1) ║
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║ A) Barcode functions ║
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║ B) Text functions ║
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║ C) Format data ║
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║ D) Miscellaneous functions ║
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║ E) Start printing ║
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║ F) EXIT BARMAN ║
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A) BARCODE FUNCTIONS
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This option selects menu 2 associated with functions concerning the
barcodes.
B) TEXT FUNCTIONS
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This selects menu 3 allowing entry to the text related functions.
C) FORMAT DATA
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Menu 4 is selected with this option, which relates to the data content
being barcoded.
D) MISCELLANEOUS FUNCTIONS
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Menu 5 is selected here and this deals with the remaining functions
covering selection of the printer type, storage of the parameters and
the status report generation.
E) START PRINTING
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This option starts BARMAN into its printing mode. When the printer is
set up and ready to print, press the space bar and the program will
proceed with printing the barcodes. If multiple mode has been selected
(4A) the data currently being processed is indicated at the bottom of
the screen and the program starts printing the text (if selected) and
barcodes. If you want to stop the process once it has started, press
and hold down the <ESC> key until the screen clears and you are
presented only with menu 1 again.
Pressing the 'P' key will cause the printing to pause until the space
bar is pressed again. A message to this effec