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[Piet De Keyser]

Dear colleague,

You can buy low price barcode programs that come with some brands of barcode labels, e.g. for Avery labels (price aproximately 30USD).  This kind of software makes it easy to print barcodes on the labels of the same brand. You can also buy a relatively small and cheap barcode printer (e.g. Toshiba  for aproximately 400 USD). Do not buy printers that print using heat on thermic paper without ribbon: they will fade in the sunlight (e.g.  Dymo Labelwriter:  not suitable for library barcodes, but certainly for other applications).  I myself use a Toshiba barcode printer which can generate any number of consecutive barcodes printed on a rol and allows to add a few lines above the barcode, with the address of the library, and the number underneath  it (in order use thiso you should find a reliable supplier of appropriate carbon ribbons and labels in your country). If you still want to use Excel or Word you can download fonts from various web sites (e.g. http://www.adams1.com/fonts.html - I have NOT tested the software and fonts they offer).

Piet de Keyser
Belgium

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Van: isis-users-bounces at iccisis.org [mailto:isis-users-bounces at iccisis.org] Namens bhowa tg
Verzonden: maandag 5 september 2011 14:58
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CC: im.lath
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Dear list members


Can anybody help with the following...

We want to generate a series of six digit consecutive numbers in Excel then use these  numbers to generate a series of barcodes which we would then print onto sheets of laser print labels. The individual barcode labels would also show the corresponding number under the barcode. We haven't yet found a free barciode font on the Internet to do this easily.

Once the barcode sheets are generated  we would stick a barcode onto each item and this would then be scanned to place a number in the accession field using a barcode scanner.

 We have spent a bit of time trying but haven't yet come up with a simple way of doing the above steps. Can anyone help? The institution requesting this assistance is not able to afford a barcode printer.




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