Barcode & OCR
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1. 2 1 Fonts The SAP mechanism Understanding the SAP mechanism of fonts is not necessary for barcode printing For OCR text printing the default size of 10 cpi 12 pt is pre defined by the SAP system If you need to implement a different size see the following section 2 2 Procedure How to add support for a particular font This is only required if you need to print OCR text in a size other than 10 cpi 12 pt The following objects need to be defined or modified 1 System font 2 Device type Printer font 3 Device type Print control SFxxx 4 Style Character format lt xx gt 5 SAPscript document Form tag text with lt xx gt For the detailed procedure please refer to standard SAP literature or contact technical support SAP Printing Customer documentation Volume 2B page 6 17 3 Barcodes This chapter contains the necessary information about the SAP mechanism for barcodes It is independent of any particular solution For general background information about barcodes please refer to the chapter Barcodes General information in the Technical Reference Manual Barcode amp OCR Printing 3 1 Barcodes The SAP mechanism This chapter explains the SAP mechanism of barcode printing For more and detailed information about the SAP mechanism of barcodes please refer to standard SAP literature Note SmartForms vs SAPscript This section describes the original barcoding architecture and mechanisms of SAPsc2. Figure The Barcode mechanism under SAPscript The Barcode mechanism under SAPscript Example symbology Code 39 height 13mm 0 51 36 85pt 737twips using HPLJ4 DT text 012ABC Document lt Bx gt lt barcode text gt lt gt lt BA gt 012ABC lt gt Form Style Character formats lt BA gt gt BC_CD39 System barcodes TFOO5 Code 39 no chk BC_CD39 max 5cm 13mm Be 2 ke Qa Q 6 ies UM O N A lt N Printer barcodes TFOO6 BC_CD39 gt SBx11 Spool request OTF stream lt system barcode gt SBPxx BC_CD39 02835 00737 06 RSENS lt barcode text gt 012ABC Print controls T022D SBP11 gt Nels SBS11 e amp Output Request PDL Command Stream EE lt barcode text gt Sesera lt esc gt slp37v24670T 012ABC lt esc gt s3T For SAPscript a Device type has to provide for each barcode supported a pair of Print controls SBPxx SBSxx The SBPxx SAPscript Barcode Prefix is mapped to a barcode select command essentially specifying the parameters of the barcode to use The SBSxx SAPscript Barcode Suffix is mapped to a barcode deselect command indicating the end of the barcode mode e g switching back to some normal text font The commands can be PDL font select commands if the printer has a barcode font installed or some other lang
3. 28 CM 000 Auftragsnummer 01 08 4 80 CM 1 20 CM 000 Test Barcode im LVS DN 20 5 00 CM 2 00 CM 000 Code 93 01 40 7 00 CM 1 30 CM 693 000 IB Code 128 B n txt h 13mm Di 40 9 00 CN 1 30 OM 000 Code 39 no chk n txt h 13mm 01 40 5 00 CM 1 30 OM 000 Code 39 w chk n txt h 13mm 01 40 9 00 CM Well eh 000 EAN 13 n txt h 13mm 12 12 5 00 CM 1 30 CM 000 EAN 8 n txt h 13mm OF GF 3 00 OM 1 30 CM 000 EAN 128 n txt h 13mm 01 40 9 00 CM 1 30 OM 000 ESC character hex 1B DN DN 0 00 TW 0 00 TW 000 Int 20f5 no chk n txt h 13mm 02 26 5 00 CM 1 30 CM 000 Int 20f5 w chk n txt h 13mm Di 25 5 00 CM 1 30 CM 000 JAN Barcode Japan 01 10 4 00 CM 1 20 CM 000 MSI no chk n txt h 13mm 01 14 9 00 CM 1 30 CN 000 MSI mod 10 chk n txt h 13mm 01 14 9 00 CM 1 30 CM 000 MSImod10 modiOchk n txt h 13mm 01 14 9 00 CN 1 30 OM 008 2 MSImod11 modi chk n txt h 13mm 01 14 9 00 CN 1 30 CN 000 USPS POSTNET 5 n txt h 3mm 05 05 4 00 CM 0 30 CN 000 USPS POSTNET 9 n txt h 3mm 09 09 6 50 CM 0 30 CM 000 Code 1284 n txt h 5mm Di 15 4 00 CN 0 50 CM C128_A 008 Code 1284 r 090 n txt h 5mm 01 15 4 00 CM 0 50 CM C128_4 090 a H Code 128B n txt h 5 4 00 0 50 CM C128_B 000 181 e sert INS 7 For SmartForms SAPscript Font Maintenance Display System Bar Codes SR RSPOS Reservierungsposition 04 64 4 80 CM 1 20 CM 000 RUECKNR Rueckmeldenummer os 14 4 80 CM 1 20 CM 000 TYPNR Typennummer 18 10 8 00 CM 1 20 CM 000 ZDBG1 new SSF barc test dk Code 39 ModWO6 H G150Chk
4. GO ees 3 4 5 Barcode amp OCR Package for SAP Intelligent version BOCH 15 3 4 6 The integrated barcoding mechanism of SmartForms GE 15 SAP Printing Customer documentation Volume 2B page 3 17 Trademarks Microsoft Windows are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and or other countries PostScript is a registered trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated PCL is a registered trademark of Hewlett Packard Company Other product names used herein are for identification purposes only and might be trademarks of their respective companies We disclaim any and all rights in those marks Important notice Parts of this manual are subject to change without prior notice SAP Printing Customer documentation Volume 2B page 4 17 1 Introduction This document contains information about Barcode and OCR text printing support on our printer devices under SAP OCR printing requires the presence of an OCR font Barcode printing requires a mechanism to process the specifications of the required barcode and eventually to image the barcode Under SAP defining an additional font and implementing a barcode solution have to be done in conjunction with the SAP system printing architecture and barcode mechanism There are several conceivable mechanisms which are implemented by different solutions 1 1 Documentation Besides general background information about the mechanism of fonts and barco
5. User s Manual of the barcode solution Note If the horizontal cursor position before drawing the barcode incremented by the amount specified in the Width attribute of the System barcode lies outside the logical page the OTF driver will automatically place the barcode at the left margin in the next line 3 3 Troubleshooting This section gives some information about troubleshooting barcode printing under SAP It applies to both the old SAPscript and the new SmartForms barcoding technology The diagram at the beginning of this chapter shows all active and passive components in the data flow The data stream can be intercepted at these stages in these data formats as an Output request PCL as a Spool request OTF as the original SAPscript document Form ITF Analyze the data streams and try to determine where the command sequence becomes incorrect Conclude where the failure was possibly introduced and check all related components On the SAP system verify the correctness of these components the Device type used especially tables T022D Print controls especially SBPxx and TFOO6 Printer barcodes gt export them the definition of the System barcode used gt screenshot or export table TFO05 the barcode specification in the SAPscript document Form gt export it the definition of the lt Bx gt character format done in the SAPscript Style used by the document Form gt screenshot or export th
6. o Printer barcodes Press Change Select the Device type in which you wish to implement the barcode Double click it Press Create Fill in the following fields Bar code the name of the system barcode to implement select from the list Bar code prefix the name of the Print control containing the barcode select command sequence normally SBPxx or ZBxyz 1 Bar code suffix the name of the Print control containing the barcode deselect command sequence normally SBSxx or ZBSOx 1 Press Enter Note 1 If a non standard Print control beginning with Z is specified here a warning message Print control must be empty or begin with SB will pop up It can be ignored just press Enter If a Print control is specified that does not exist in the Device type a warning will be issued Any Print controls to be used here need to be defined before in the Device type Note The Baseline alignment attribute is not used by the HPL2 OTF driver and should therefore be left empty SAP Printing Customer documentation Volume 2B page 13 17 3 2 1 The complete procedure This section presents the complete procedure necessary to add support for printing a new barcode Step 1 Preparation Determining the parameters Determine the name of the SAPscript document or Form in which you want to integrate the barcode say MYDOC Determine the Message data that you want to be barcoded from your database say amp
7. specific Device type Yet they are maintained using transaction SE73 To maintain create modify delete Printer barcodes follow the procedure given below Figure The List of Printer barcodes of the HPLJ4 device type IH 88818 SAPscript Font Maintenance Display Printer Bar Codes Displ print control Device type Bar code Prefix Suffix Baseline alignment E HPLJ4 ARTNR SBPO1 SBSO1 E HPLJ4 AUFNR SBPO2 pen P HPLJ4 BARCLYS SBPO3 pen F HPLJ4 BC_93 SBP29 SBSO1 E HPLJ4 BC_C128B SBP21 SBS21 E HPL J4 BC_CD39 SBP11 BS11 E HPL J4 BC_CD39C SBP16 spsi6 PF HPLJ4 BC_EAN13 SBP13 sBs13 PF HPL J4 BC_EANS SBP12 56512 P HPLJ4 BC_EANH SBP22 56522 U HPLJ4 BC_ESC SBPOO sesoo U eal HPLJ4 BC 125 SBP15 sBs15 F KM DUDU IKIO Please choose a valid function D IDS 1 800 re edsc01 INS 7 3 1 4 Deviations under SmartForms This section summarizes the particularities of the new SmartForms integrated barcoding architecture in comparison to the legacy barcoding architecture of SAPscript When creating a new System barcode under SE73 now two choices are offered New gt new mechanism of SmartForms New Barcode Technology Old gt legacy mechanism of SAPscript Standard System Barcode New System barcodes have different attributes and appear differently in the listing For these Printer barcodes are not necessary to define because the barcodes symbols are reail
8. 5 device type The second is called Barcode amp OCR Package for SAP Intelligent version BOCR for short It is an HP JetCAPS compatible barcode solution integrated in our printer controllers It is designed to work with our ZA01 v007 device type On newer SAP systems SmartForms SSF has its own barcoding mechanism Documentation For a particular solution please refer to its User s Manual for the following types of information Product specification information specification of the solution product its components and the mechanism the OCR fonts supported For the barcode symbologies supported refer to Appendix B For the printer devices supported refer to Appendix D For the Device type specification refer to Appendix S Installation information For information on how to install the product how to test the successful installation and how to uninstall refer to the section Installing the product Product use information For information on how to use and configure the product i e in order to get barcodes printed refer to the section Using the product Troubleshooting information Troubleshooting Support information can be found in the Troubleshooting section of the User s Manual Troubleshooting information specific to printing barcodes under SAP is given in the Troubleshooting section in this document Troubleshooting information specific to our devices are contained in the correspondi
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10. SAP Printing Customer documentation Volume 2B page 1 17 SAP Printing Customer documentation Volume 2B Barcode amp OCR Printing Version 1 09 Abstract This document contains generic solution product independent information about the support of Barcode and OCR text printing from SAP systems R 3 mySAP ERP Published by Ricoh Company Ltd SAP Printing Customer documentation Volume 2B page 2 17 Contents 1 INTRODUCTION EE 4 1 1 DOCUMENTATION Se ee a re eege dE ee 1 2 TERMINOLOGY AND NOTATION 1 3 TECHNICAL SUPPORT NEE 2 1 FONTS THE SAP MECHANISM rnrn an annann annan AAAA AEAEE EAEEEEEEEE EEEE EE EEEE E EEE EE REEERE EREEREER EREEREER EREEREER EEEE EEEEEEE 5 2 2 PROCEDURE HOW TO ADD SUPPORT FOR A PARTICULAR FONT neeeeesnnnnnnnnnssesnnnnnnnnnnnnennnnnnnnnnnnnesnnnnnnnnnnnennnnnnnnnnnnsnnnnnnennnnnnsennnnen 5 3 BARCODES aa EEEa EEEE E E EEE E E E E EEE 6 3 1 BARCODES THE SAP MECHANISM u a a a a A a e aa e U a ai Eed 3 1 1 Barcode vpestamiles ran nnennennennenennnn nenn 31 2 System barcodes EE 3 1 3 Printer barcodes cc cceectettestetsseseeeecseceececesecsceseseceesseeseeeeeees 3 1 4 Deviations under SmartFOormS e0sananaaaeneanananneenanannnnennanannnnnenanne 3 2 PROCEDURE HOW TO SUPPORT PRINTING A PARTICULAR BARCODE 3 2 1 The complete Drocecdhure AA 3 3 TROUBEESHOOTING u nen iiabiliniinnertee 3 4 BARCODE SOLUTIONS FOR SAP vers ZAIT The Barcode amp OCR Package for SAP
11. Y Ratio 30 Normal ZDBO2 Code 128 ModWO6 HO0150Mode A Chk Y Rotated 20000 PDF 417 ModWO4 HO0150SecLy 6RowH 00010 Inverted The following system barcodes are predefined as standard on an SAP system from the release indicated These predefined barcodes can be tested using the standard documents named SAPSCRIPT BARCODETEST and SAPSCRIPT BARCODETEST1 using transaction SO10 Table SAP System Barcodes standard predefined en Height Technical Prefix Tag Release 2 mm Barcode type 1 3 R S equivalent SAP Printing Customer documentation Volume 2B page 10 17 ESC character hex 1B 1 1 200 Dino barcode SBPOO j 12 SBPO1 lt B1 gt 2 2A AUFNR____ Auftragsnummer 1 a 480 12 SBP02 _ lt B2 gt 2 2A 20 SBPO3 lt B3 gt 2 2A IKUNAUNR _ Kundenauftragsnummer mm 10 4 80 12 SBP04 _ lt B4 gt 2 2A IKUNAUPS _ Kundenauftragsposition el e 4 80 12 SBP05 lt B5 gt 2 2A 20 SBP06 lt B6 gt 2 2A 12 SBPO7 _ lt B7 gt 2 2A RSNUM____ Reservierungsnummer 10 10 4 80 12 SBP08 lt B8 gt 2 2A RSPOS____ Reservierungsposition Aal A Aen 12 SBP09 lt B9 gt 2 2A IRUECKNR Rueckmeldenummer 44 as 12 SBP10__ lt B0 gt 2 2Ar Br BE ee oes Leen 5 00 13 SBP11 lt BA gt 3 0A 13 SBP12 lt BB gt 3 0A 13 SBP13 lt BC gt 3 0A 5 00 13 SBP14 _ lt BD gt 3 0A 13 SBP15 lt BE gt 3 0A IBC_CD39C__ Code 39w chk nixth 18mm 1 40 ao 13 SBP16 lt BF
12. a Device type Make a copy of the Device type ZAOxcvvv to be used for your barcode print jobs say ZMYDT Use transaction SPAD This is a standard SAP procedure See Appendix 1 in Volume 2 ZA0x Create an Output Device say ZMYOD which uses this Device type Step 4 Defining Print controls in the Device type Use one of the predefined barcode select deselect Print controls ZBxyz of the Device type as a template to create your own Step 5 Defining a Printer barcode in the Device type In the Device type ZMYDT create a Printer barcode for the System barcode ZMYSB created above Use transaction SE73 This is a standard SAP procedure Step 6 SAPscript Style In the SAPscript Style used by your SAPscript document or Form create a lt Bx gt Barcode Character format say lt BZ gt Use transaction SE72 Map it to the System barcode defined above i e ZMYSB Activate the Style Step 7 Modifying the SAPscript document Form SAP Printing Customer documentation Volume 2B page 14 17 Inthe SAPscript document or Form specify the message data tagged with the Barcode Character format lt BZ gt amp mystruct myfield amp e lt gt Step 8 Adjusting the print output Print the document using the Output Device ZMYOD If the barcode does not print OK missing or garbled refer to the Troubleshooting section below Otherwise e g for how to adjust the size or position or other parameters of the barcode refer to the
13. des under SAP this document briefly describes the solutions approaches supported by us and the necessary procedures to effectively print barcodes and OCR text For information about barcode symbologies in general please refer to the separate document named Technical Reference Manual Barcode amp OCR Printing The following SAP specific documents do not contain any information related to fonts or barcodes e Volume 1 contains only introductory information about the SAP Device type approach e Volume 2 ZA0x contains information about the SAP Device type ZA00 which is also part of the Barcode amp OCR Package for SAP e The Volume 3 DCxx contain device specific information This document is generic for all our devices and the solutions recommended or offered by us and specific for the SAP system platform It is structured as outlined below First fonts are dealt with independent of barcodes Next barcodes are discussed independent of a particular solution approach taken While general background information about barcodes is contained in the Technical Reference Manual Barcode amp OCR Printing here the SAP mechanism for barcodes System barcode Printer barcode etc is described in particular the procedure how to implement support for a specific barcode Last the supported solutions products are presented 1 2 Terminology and Notation Acronyms e DT SAP Device type e TRM Technical Reference Manual Ba
14. e style First try to capture the final PCL data stream into a file and check the correctness of the barcode select sequence Then if the Output request data looks wrong but all components look OK try checking the Spool request OTF data The barcode related OTF commands are BC and BS For general and SAP independent information on troubleshooting barcode printing or regarding print quality please refer to the Troubleshooting section in the Technical Reference Manual Barcode amp OCR Printing To troubleshoot problems with a particular solution refer to the Troubleshooting section in the corresponding User s Manual of the product SAP Printing Customer documentation Volume 2B page 15 17 3 4 Barcode solutions for SAP systems This chapter contains information about the supported solution products for OCR text and barcode printing under SAP It only describes those SAP barcode solutions that are directly supported by us In case these are not applicable in your environment please contact Technical support for a recommendation of alternative solutions Solutions There are 2 major present approaches developed by Ricoh The first is called Barcode amp OCR Package for SAP BOP for short It uses a barcode font residing on the printer on HDD or DIMM or SDcard and an ABAP 4 program to parse the barcode specification and convert the data into those compatible with the font It is designed to work with our ZAO0 v00
15. es A Barcode type family defines essentially the barcode symbology The following Barcode types exist predefined in a SAP system Barcode type aa ee OFS Barcode NE E EA Barcode 7 characters T oheckdigt O O CSCS Eau EANJAN JAN Barcode 12 characters 1 check dig o O C SoS UNDEF Barcode not definedin SAP standard O O OSSO SS es e a O 3 1 2 System barcodes A System barcode is an abstract definition of a barcode Attributes Name max 8 characters Description Barcode type family Min amp max number of characters that will be encoded Width maximum or exact Height Placement up downward from current position Use of check characters Rotation For SmartForms additional attributes exist Please refer to the separate section below The Width attribute is used to determine the horizontal position of the cursor after drawing the barcode The Height attribute is not used by the HPL2 or SWIN OTF drivers The Rotation attribute is used by the HPL2 OTF driver to generate PCL rotate commands System barcodes are stored in table TFO05 System barcodes are maintained with transaction SE73 SAP Printing Customer documentation Volume 2B page 9 17 To maintain create modify delete System barcodes follow the procedure given below Figure The List of System barcodes For SAPscript Artikelnummer DN 10 4 80 CN 1
16. gt 3 0A BC MSI MSI no chk nix h 183mm_ 1 14 ao 13 SBP17 _ lt BG gt 3 0A BC_MSIC___ MSI mod 10 chk ntxt h 18mm_ 1 14 ao 13 SBP18 _ lt BH gt 3 0A BC_MSIC1 _ MSimod10 modi chk n txt h 18mm 1 14 ao 13 SBP19 t 3 0A IBC_MSIC2 _ MSimod11 mod1Ochk ntxt h 18mm 1 14 ao 13 SBP20 _ lt BJ gt 3 0A BC C128B Code 128B ntt h 13amm 1 40 ao 13 SBP21 _ lt BK gt 3 0A BC EANH EAN128 nix h 183mm_ 1 40 ao 13 sBP22 t 3 0E 03 sBP23 py 3 0E BC_PSN9 USPS POSTNET9 nix h 3mm Ta a 6 50 03 SBP24 py 3 0E Go EE ae EE E 05 C128_A SBP25 lt BO gt 4 6A ar p 128A r 90 n txt h 5mm 05 C128_A SBP25 lt BP gt 4 6A 4 05 C128_B SBP26 _ lt BO gt 4 6A ee 128B r 90 n txt h 5mm 05 C128 B SBP26 lt BR gt 4 6A 4 05 C39 SBP27 _ lt BS gt 4 6A ee ere 05 C39 SBP28 _ lt BU gt 4 6A En ene 13 093 SBP29 9 4 6A Kerze erg eg 03 9 9 6 x Ke WER te EE IER EE Note 1 The SBPxx prefixes The given SBPxx prefixes are as defined used in the device types HPLJ4 and related and SWIN and as per the BARCODE DLL specification in SAP note 0025344 The commands to which these print controls are mapped depend on the solution e g BARCODE DLL HP JetCAPS proprietary etc Note 2 Legend e n txt no clear text w txt with clear text n chk no check character w chk with check character h height r 90 rotation M
17. in Max min max characters Note 3 The lt Bx gt tags The given lt Bx gt tags are the Character formats as defined in the standard Style S_TEST They have to be used in the SAPscript document to specify the barcode to be used Note 4 Rotated barcodes For PCL the same barcode prefix Print control can be used this is not possible for HP GL 2 Note 9 BC 93 BC_PSN11 For these two system barcodes the Character format tag and Print control used depend on the SAP release version as follows BC 93 BC PSN11 SAP R 3 before v6 x SBP29 lt BW gt n a SAP R 3 v6 x amp higher SBP29 lt BX gt SBP30 lt BW gt Note SmartForms For SmartForms a new type of System barcodes can be defined with an extended set of parameters to be defined For details refer to the separate section below SAP Printing Customer documentation Volume 2B page 11 17 3 1 3 Printer barcodes A Printer barcode is the implementation of a System barcode for a particular Device type This concept is only relevant for SAPscript not for the new SmartForms integrated barcoding architecture which is device type independent Attributes e Device type e System barcode e Print controls SBPxx SBSxx which contain the command sequence to activate Prefix deactivate Suffix the barcode e Baseline alignment This attribute is not used by the HPL2 OTF driver Printer barcodes are stored in table TFOO6 They thus belong to a
18. ized directly by the OTF driver not by the Device type For more information please refer to the separate section below or refer to SAP documentation or contact technical support 3 2 Procedure How to support printing a particular barcode As a consequence of the architecture outlined above configuring printing of a particular barcode requires creating or modifying the following objects of the SAP system These are standard SAP procedures using the transaction codes indicated independent of any specific solution SAP Printing Customer documentation Volume 2B page 12 17 Note SmartForms vs SAPscript The procedures given hereafter are only for the old SAPscript barcodes For the new SmartForms technology refer to the separate section further below System barcode SE73 see below define attributes Device type Print controls SBPxx ZBxyz select prefix and SBSxx ZBS0x deselect suffix SPAD map to correct command sequence solution specific Device type Printer barcode SE73 see below map above System barcode to above pair of Print controls SAPscript Style SE72 define Character format lt Bx gt mapped to above System barcode SAPscript document Form S010 tag message data with lt Bx gt lt gt SE71 To create a new System barcode 1 Enter transaction SE73 Select ol System barcodes Press Change Press Create On newer SAP systems you may get
19. mystruct myfield amp Determine the Symbology that is required by your barcode environment Determine the Check character method CHK method that is required by your barcode environment Determine the desired Clear text CTX style and font that you want the barcode to be printed with Do you need clear text or not If yes determine the clear text style and font desired Determine the N W ratio that is most suitable for your barcode environment Normally 1 2 0 should be fine In case of a small size or enough space or bad reading conditions a higher ratio may improve readability Determine the desired Size total width and height of the barcode Determine the desired Orientation rotation of the barcode Determine the desired Position of the barcode Step 2 Setting up a System barcode Create a new System barcode say ZMYSB Use transaction SE73 This is a standard SAP procedure The name may be a maximum of 8 characters long and it has to start with a Z Specify the following attributes Specify the maximum expected width of the barcode This setting is used to determine the horizontal cursor position after printing the barcode If the barcode is to be rotated specify the angle in the Rotation attribute The other attributes are not used by the HPL2 OTF driver and can therefore be filled arbitrarily or left empty However for documentation purposes you may want to fill in reasonable values Step 3 Setting up
20. ng Operation Instructions manual of each device Generic troubleshooting information for OCR fonts barcodes and barcode fonts are given in the Technical Reference Manual Barcode amp OCR Printing Background information For background information about printer fonts and barcodes please refer to the Technical Reference Manual Barcode amp OCR Printing 3 4 1 The Barcode amp OCR Package for SAP BOP For information about this product refer to its User s Manual 3 4 5 Barcode amp OCR Package for SAP Intelligent version BOCR For information about this product refer to its User s Manual parts 1 2 3 4 6 The integrated barcoding mechanism of SmartForms SSF This barcode solution is built in into SmartForms the successor of SAPscript transaction code SMARTFORMS It cannot be used with SAPscript only with SmartForms Currently these 5 symbologies are supported Code 128 Code 39 Code 93 2 5 Interleaved SAP Printing Customer documentation Volume 2B page 16 17 PDF417 2D For more information refer to the following SAP notes related to this issue 0645158 contains the barcode parameter specification 0639812 has links to the downloadable patches For information about how to use this barcoding technology with our devices please contact our Technical support For any further details refer to SAP documentation SAP Printing Customer documentation Volume 2
21. prompted to select the barcoding technology Press Old to create a System barcode for use under SAPscript Then follow from step 3 below Press New to create a System barcode for use under SmartForms with the new integrated barcode technology In case of questions please contact technical support Fill in the following fields Bar code the desired name of the barcode max 8 characters start with Z Description any descriptive text Bar code type the name of the barcode family if it is defined or just UNDEF 1 Min Max character number the minimum and maximum number of characters in the text to be barcoded 1 Bar code width specify the maximum width of the barcode in cm 2 Bar code height specify the height of the barcode in cm 3 Unit of measurement specify CM centimeters Rotation at output leave empty or select one of 090 180 270 4 Press Enter Note 1 This value has no effect It is only there for documentation purposes Note 2 This value is used to determine the horizontal position of the PCL cursor after drawing the barcode Note 3 This value is not used by the HPL2 or SWIN OTF drivers Note 4 This value will not be used in case of the SWIN OTF driver This value will not be effective if HP GL 2 is used Enter a Change request ID Press Enter To create a new Printer barcode 1 Enter transaction SE73 Select
22. rcode amp OCR Printing SAP character numbers are notated as 4 digit numbers lt ssss gt possibly with leading zeroes Refer also to the section Terminology and Notation and the Glossary in Appendix G of the Technical Reference Manual Barcode amp OCR Printing 1 3 Technical support For any technical support please contact your local representative You may obtain technical support if you have questions or problems related to barcode printing on our devices under SAP If you have problems with any of the barcode solutions presented in this document please refer to the Technical support section of its User s Manual For general questions about or problems with barcode printing on our devices and for those related to non SAP environments please refer to the Technical support section in the Technical Reference Manual Barcode amp OCR Printing SAP Printing Customer documentation Volume 2B page 5 17 2 Fonts For necessary background information about printer device fonts in general and the support of fonts on our printer devices PCL font list downloading and managing HDD download fonts HDD Directory list installing the DIMM please refer to the chapter Fonts General information in the Technical Reference Manual Barcode amp OCR Printing It is independent of any particular solution and of SAP Please find below information about the SAP mechanism for fonts System fonts Printer fonts etc
23. ript Deviations under SmartForms SSF versus under SAPscript are commented on where necessary A summary of SmartForms deviations is given in a separate section below Even though SmartForms has its own new mechanism for barcoding it also supports the legacy barcoding mechanism of SAPscript Barcodes are maintained with transaction SE73 SAPscript Font Maintenance Figure Managing barcodes the main screen of transaction SE73 SAPscript Font Maintenance initial Screen Fontfamilies System fonts Printer fonts System bar codes Printer bar codes TEE System fonts Printer fants AFM metrics D System bar codes D Printer bar codes Display Change E lips 1 800 edscO1 INS A SAP implements a 3 tiered hierarchical barcode architecture Barcode type family gt System barcode gt Printer barcode These are described in detail in the following subsections When using SAPscript the SAP system itself does not provide any barcode fonts or barcode imaging solutions They have to be provided externally The mechanism is explained at the corresponding solution When using SmartForms the successor of SAPscript it also has a limited built in support for barcodes The following diagram summarizes the barcode mechanism under SAPscript The individual components are then explained in the remainder of this section SAP Printing Customer documentation Volume 2B page 7 17
24. uage which could be interpreted by some intermediate component For the exact definition of each SByxx refer to the specification of the Device type For SmartForms the above is not necessary SAP Printing Customer documentation Volume 2B page 8 17 To specify data as to be barcoded in a SAPscript document or SmartForms Form it has to be surrounded by a pair of Character format tags lt Bx gt lt data gt lt gt The lt Bx gt is a Character format defined in the Form or Style used by the document It maps to a SAP System barcode The lt gt indicates the end of the formatting range The lt data gt is typically coming from some table entries e g T0815 ARTNR amp Note Rotation Rotation of barcodes by 90 180 270 is supported from release R 3 4 5A It is specified as an attribute of the System barcode For a particular rotation e g by 90 the OTF drivers apply the following mechanisms e The HPL2 driver automatically adds PCL codes lt esc gt amp a90P before SBPxx and lt esc gt amp a0P after SBSxx e The SWIN driver does not do anything Therefore the rotation also needs to be specified in the command passed to the BARCODE DLL e g R 90 For further information see also the R 3 Printing Manual The next three sections detail the hierarchical barcode architecture of SAP systems Barcode type family gt System barcode gt Printer barcode 3 1 1 Barcode types famili
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