barcode and text are getting truncated

[Former Member]

hello,

i am printting barcodes in zebra S4M printer using smartforms... in print preview its displaying properly... but if i print it , its getting truncated at the end..

my label dimesion is 10 x 5 cm... it will print each line around 7 cm, rest gets truncated..

i tried to increase the width of main window more than 12 cm, but the problem still remains.. please help me..

regards,

Maya.

[Former Member]

Thanks Anji...

problem solved... there was some problem with printer settings...

regards,

Maya

[Former Member]

Hi Member

I getting same kind of proble , please help me in solving my isssue.

[Former Member]

Hi

I doubt that Printer in which you are printing may not be supporting thios BArcodes perfectly

confirm it by printing in another printer.

Even after increasing the length of the window it is still not printing the space between barcode and the field means check the printer..

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Regards

Anji

[Former Member]

hello Anji ,

thank u for ur response.. i tried in other printer.. but the same problem...

regards,

Maya.

[Former Member]

Hi

if I am not wrong for printing BArcodes we use some special printers .

Take the help of a Basis guy in this regard

and also see the following notes on barcode printing

May be helpful

To Create a Bar code prefix:

1) Go to T-code - SPAD -> Full Administration -> Click on Device Type -> Double click the device for which you wish to create the print control -> Click on Print Control tab ->Click on change mode -> Click the plus sign to add a row or prefix say SBP99 (Prefix must start with SBP) -> save you changes , it will ask for request -> create request and save

2) Now when you go to SE73 if you enter SBP00 for you device it will add the newly created Prefix

Create a character format C1.Assign a barcode to the character format.Check the check box for the barcode.

The place where you are using the field value use like this

<C1> &itab-field& </C1>.

You will get the field value in the form of barcode.

Which barcode printer are you using ? Can you download this file and see.

http://www.servopack.de/Files/HB/ZPLcommands.pdf.

It will give an idea about barcode commands.

Check this link:

http://www.sap-img.com/abap/questions-about-bar-code-printing-in-sap.htm

Check this link:

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/d9/4a94c851ea11d189570000e829fbbd/content.htm

Hope this link ll be useful..

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/66/1b45c136639542a83663072a74a21c/content.htm

Detailed information about SAP Barcodes

A barcode solution consists of the following:

- a barcode printer

- a barcode reader

- a mobile data collection application/program

A barcode label is a special symbology to represent human readable information such as a material number or batch number

in machine readable format.

There are different symbologies for different applications and different industries. Luckily, you need not worry to much about that as the logistics supply chain has mostly standardized on 3 of 9 and 128 barcode symbologies - which all barcode readers support and which SAP support natively in it's printing protocols.

You can print barcodes from SAP by modifying an existing output form.

Behind every output form is a print program that collects all the data and then pass it to the form. The form contains the layout as well as the font, line and paragraph formats. These forms are designed using SAPScript (a very easy but frustratingly simplistic form format language) or SmartForms that is more of a graphical form design tool.

Barcodes are nothing more than a font definition and is part of the style sheet associated with a particular SAPScript form. The most important aspect is to place a parameter in the line of the form that points to the data element that you want to represent as barcode on the form, i.e. material number. Next you need to set the font for that parameter value to one of the supported barcode symbologies.

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Anji

[Former Member]

Hello Anji,

After giving print, SAPLPD window pops up... in that its displaying the following details..

(3:18:27 PM) Receive job for printer __DEFAULT (Berkeley LPD protocol / RFC1179)

(3:18:27 PM) send_status called

(3:18:27 PM) send_status called

(3:18:27 PM) send_status called

(3:18:27 PM) send_status called

(3:18:27 PM) send_status called

(3:18:27 PM) Job 000000849200001.DEV for user BARCODE queued.

(3:18:27 PM) Start printing job 000000849200001.DEV on printer ZDESIGNER S4M ZPL 203DPI

(3:18:27 PM) <b>Device __DEFAULT not capable to set paper size (9).</b>

(3:18:28 PM) Print-job 000000849200001.DEV, 1 pages finished.

(3:18:28 PM) Elapsed time 0.750 sec (0.125 sec. used by windows)

please check the highlighted line...is this the problem??? if so ,please help me to correct it..

regards,

Maya.