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Originally posted by daves
In the past I’ve used Label Matrix which worked quite well and and was well supported, at least for my needs. About a year ago, the maker of Label Matrix was purchased by Teklynx which you will find at http://www.teklynx.com. I used the simplest possible interface (an ASCII file and SHELL command to invoke the label printing) but several levels of interface are feasible. I have used products like Label Matrix in a number of applications and programming languages. I have tried the “build your own” approach, but the eventual cost was always much higher than buying and interfacing a good specialty tool, especially when the tool is relatively inexpensive. I would use some third party tool that was certified by the Post Office even for the simple bar codes used for letter sorting. The costs of potential problems are way too high to justify saving a few dollars on the software (you could waste postage, printing costs, marketing money, etc. if your postal bar codes aren’t perfect; plus you could have incredible hassles, even fines, if the finger of blames points back at you - it isn’t worth the risk).
I have to agree. I did not do interface NAvision - Barcode yet, but I did do it a lot with Wonderware products. It’s much cheaper and more reliable to go for the 3rd part approack. you design the label in the barcode software and send an ascii file from Navision to a specific directory and you have your lable. When you want the barcode on your invoice on the other hand, you might want to buy a barcode font on the net.