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To install Quick-BAR!
Make a directory where you want to locate quickbar,
e.g.
md c:\quickbar
Then copy the files to that directory.
copy a:\*.*
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.
That's all there is to it.
If you have a downloaded, zipped version, then first
unzip the files and follow the steps above.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.